Reinforce vs Strength - What's the difference?
reinforce | strength |
(senseid)To strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation.
To emphasize or review.
To encourage a behavior or idea through repeated stimulus.
The quality or degree of being strong.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* , chapter=5
, title= The intensity of a force or power; potency.
* 1699 , ,
The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
* Bible, (Psalms) xlvi. 1
* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
A positive attribute.
(obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.
(obsolete) To give strength to; to strengthen.
* 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Job IV:
As verbs the difference between reinforce and strength
is that reinforce is (to strengthen by addition) To strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation while strength is to give strength to; to strengthen.As a noun strength is
the quality or degree of being strong.reinforce
English
Verb
(reinforc)- He reinforced the handle with a metal rod and a bit of tape.
- The right homework will reinforce and complement the lesson!
- ''Advertising for fast food can reinforce unhealthy dietary tendencies.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l) * (strengthen) strengthen, augment, fortify, buttress, bolster, line * (emphasize) emphasize, review, repeat * (encourage) encourage, reward, instruct, teach, learnstrength
English
Noun
(en noun)- Our castle's strength will laugh a siege to scorn.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength —all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
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- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- God is our refuge and strength .
- Certainly there is not a greater strength against temptation.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* fortitude * power * ability * capability * potency * expertiseAntonyms
* (The quality of being strong) weakness * (A positive attribute) weaknessDerived terms
* bond strength * compressive strength * crushing strength * dielectic strength * fatigue strength * field strength * full-strength * impact strength * industrial-strength * inner strength * ionic strength * party strength * pillar of strength * relative strength * shear strength * strengthen * strengthening * strengthful * strengthless * strengthy * superstrength * tensile strength * tower of strength * ultimate strength * understrength * wet strength * yield strengthVerb
(en verb)- Lo! thou hast tau?t ful many men, and thou hast strengthid hondis maad feynt.
- (Chaucer)