Raise vs Enhance - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between raise and enhance

is that raise is to bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear while enhance is to lift, raise up.

As verbs the difference between raise and enhance

is that raise is to cause to rise; to lift or elevate while enhance is to lift, raise up.

As a noun raise

is an increase in wages or salary; a rise UK.

raise

English

Verb

(rais)

(label) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.

# To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.

#* Bible, (w) xxxix. 3

I will raise forts against thee.

# To cause something to come to the surface of the sea.

# (label) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.

# (label) To cause (a dead person) to live again, to cause to be undead.

# (military) To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.

(label) To create, increase or develop.

# To collect.

# To bring up; to grow; to promote.

# To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.

# (label) To create; to constitute (a use , or a beneficial interest in property).

# (label) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.

#* Bible, (w) xviii. 18.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.

#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget.

#* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.

To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.

(label) To exponentiate, to involute.

To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.

To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.

Synonyms

* lift

Derived terms

* raise Cain * raise fire * raise one's eyebrows * raise someone's consciousness * raise the alarm * raise the roof * raised by wolves * raised in a barn

Noun

(en noun)

(US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).

The boss gave me a raise .

(weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.

(curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.

(poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.

Derived terms

* lateral raise * leg raise

Anagrams

External links

* ("raise" on Wikipedia) English causative verbs English contranyms English ergative verbs 1000 English basic words

enhance

English

Alternative forms

* inhance * enhaunce * inhaunce

Verb

(enhanc)

(obsolete) To lift, raise up.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:

nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst : / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.

(Wyclif Bible)

To augment or make something greater.

* Southey

The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated.

* 2000 , Mordecai Roshwald, Liberty: Its Meaning and Scope , page 155

A hereditary monarch relies on pomp and ceremony, which enhance the respect for the institution

To improve something by adding features.

* 1986 , Maggie Righetti, Knitting in Plain English , page 192

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.

To be raised up; to grow larger.

A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

Synonyms

* See also