different between augment vs dilate

English

Etymology

From Middle English augmenten, from Middle French augmenter, from Old French augmenter, from Late Latin augmentare (“to increase”), from Latin augmentum (“an increase, growth”), from augere (“to increase”).

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /????m?nt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /???m?nt/
  • Rhymes: -?nt
• Noun:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /????m?nt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /???m?nt/
• Hyphenation: aug?ment

Verb

augment (third-person singular simple present augments, present participle augmenting, simple past and past participle augmented)

1. (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.

   The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.

2. (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
3. (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
4. (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
5. (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “augment”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Noun

augment (plural augments)

1. (grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
2. (grammar) In some Bantu languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
3. An increase.

Derived terms

• augmentless

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• augment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• augment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• augment at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• mutagen, negatum

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augmentum.

Noun

augment m (plural augments)

1. increase, rise, rising

Related terms

• augmentar

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?.m??/

Noun

augment m (plural augments)

1. (medieval law) part of the estates which the widow could inherit
   • Est aussi conclud et accordé qu'au lieu de douaire dont l'on a accoustumé d'user en France, ladite dame Elisabeth aura pour augment le dot dudit mariage selon l'usage des pais du roy d'Espagne, 166,666 escus d'or sol deux tiers. (marriage contract of the prince of Spain and Ms Elisabeth of France) note: this quote is in Middle French.
2. (grammar) augment

   L'augment syllabique consiste en l’addition d’une syllabe ; l'augment temporel, dans le changement d’une brève en longue.

Related terms

• augmenter

Further reading

• “augment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English dilaten, from Old French dilater, from Latin d?l?t? (“I spread out”), from di- (variant of dis-) + l?tus (“wide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da??le?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

dilate (third-person singular simple present dilates, present participle dilating, simple past and past participle dilated)

1. (transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.

2. (intransitive) To become wider or larger; to expand.

   Antonym: contract

3. (transitive, intransitive) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".
   • 1810, George Crabbe, The Borough

     But still they on their ancient joys dilate.

4. (medicine, transitive, intransitive) To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina).
   • 1896, The Chicago Medical Recorder, page 62:

     An experimenter in New York has recently advocated what he is pleased to call temporary forcible dilatation of the trachea in the treatment of membranous croup, his idea being to introduce into the trachea a dilator and to forcibly dilate, every few hours if need be, and he reports favorable results.

   • 1911, Abraham Leo Wolbarst, Gonorrhea in the Male: A Practical Guide to Its Treatment, page 148:

     In very tight and obstinate stricture I sometimes dilate every day, but as soon as it has been stretched up to 23 or 24, I dilate every other day, or at greater intervals, keeping the instrument in place several minutes.

   • 2010, Kehinde Adeola Ayeni, Feasts of Phantoms, Fisher King Press (?ISBN), page 148:

     He gave her some of the dilators he used to dilate her vagina shortly after the surgery and encouraged her to do it frequently.

   • 2012, Wolf Eicher, Götz Kockott, Sexology, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN)

     It is important to realize that a number of these women do not want to have their vaginismus treated but only to achieve pregnancy. […] The use of hard plastic rods with increasing diameters, a sort of pseudopenis, can be useful, provided it is explained to the woman that these rods are not used to dilate her vagina but are a means of training the relaxation of her pelvic muscles and of getting these muscles under control.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• dilute

Anagrams

• atelid, de-tail, detail, dietal, laited, tailed

French

Verb

dilate

1. inflection of dilater:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• déliât, détail, ladite

Latin

Participle

d?l?te

1. vocative masculine singular of d?l?tus

Portuguese

Verb

dilate

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of dilatar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of dilatar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of dilatar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of dilatar

Spanish

Verb

dilate

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dilatar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dilatar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dilatar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of dilatar.