Enhances vs Provides - What's the difference?
enhances | provides |
(enhance)
(obsolete) To lift, raise up.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
To augment or make something greater.
* Southey
* 2000 , Mordecai Roshwald, Liberty: Its Meaning and Scope , page 155
To improve something by adding features.
* 1986 , Maggie Righetti, Knitting in Plain English , page 192
To be raised up; to grow larger.
(provide)
To make a living; earn money for necessities.
To act to prepare for something.
To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
To furnish (with), cause to be present.
* Arbuthnot
To make possible or attainable.
* Milton
(obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor .
As verbs the difference between enhances and provides
is that enhances is (enhance) while provides is (provide).enhances
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Verb
(head)enhance
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Alternative forms
* inhance * enhaunce * inhaunceVerb
(enhanc)- nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst : / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.
- (Wyclif Bible)
- The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated.
- A hereditary monarch relies on pomp and ceremony, which enhance the respect for the institution
- A pom-pom to top off a stocking cap, a fringe to feather the edge of a shawl, tassels to define the points of an afghan, these are just a few of the delightful little goodies that enhance handknit things.
- A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
Synonyms
* See alsoprovides
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----provide
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Verb
(provid)- It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.
- The contract provides that the work be well done.
- I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday.
- Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.
- We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces.
- Rome was well provided with corn.
- He provides us with an alternative option.
- Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit / As the kind, hospitable woods provide .
- (Ben Jonson)
- (Prescott)