Retrofit vs Enhance - What's the difference?
retrofit | enhance |
To add or substitute new parts or components to some device, structure etc., that were not previously available; to modernize
To fix an older version (or older versions) as part of the same process of fixing the newest version; to backport
of, relating to, or being a retrofit
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(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.
As verbs the difference between retrofit and enhance
is that retrofit is to add or substitute new parts or components to some device, structure etc, that were not previously available; to modernize while enhance is (obsolete) to lift, raise up.As a noun retrofit
is something that has been retrofitted.As an adjective retrofit
is of, relating to, or being a retrofit.retrofit
English
(wikipedia retrofit)Verb
(transitive, or, intransitive)- The bug was so bad that we had to retrofit our patch to the last three releases, as well as the newest release.
Adjective
(-)enhance
English
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.