different between augment vs doubler

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

double +? -er

Noun

doubler (plural doublers)

1. One who doubles.
2. An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.
3. (structural engineering) A metal plate riveted or welded over a preexisting metal structural component to reinforce it and relieve the stress on the preexisting component, or to serve as a patch where part of the original structure has failed or been removed.

4. (US, dialect) A tenement house having two families on each floor.
5. (colloquial) A biplane aeroplane or kite.
6. Part of a distilling apparatus for intercepting the heavier fractions and returning them to be redistilled.
7. (calico printing) A blanket or felt placed between the fabric and the printing table or cylinder.
8. A person employed in a roller mill to fold the hot metal plates in half.
9. A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.

Anagrams

• Boulder, boulder

French

Etymology

From Old French dobler, from Late Latin d?pl?, from Latin d?plus. Compare Spanish and Catalan doblar, Portuguese dobrar, Italian doppiare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du.ble/

Verb

doubler

1. to double, duplicate

   A cet instant précis, il a décidé de doubler la mise.

2. to double-cross

   Nous avons été doublé ce coup-ci.

3. to overtake, pass

   Sur l'autoroute, nous avons eu l'occasion de doubler de nombreux véhicules.

4. to dub

   Daniel Beretta qui double Arnold Schwarzenegger en français depuis 1987 a également prêté sa voix à l'agent Sam Fisher.

5. (Belgium) to repeat a school year

   Synonym: redoubler

Conjugation

Derived terms

• doublage
• redoubler
• dédoubler

Descendants

• ? Romanian: dubla

See also

• dupliquer

Further reading

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