different between borden vs increase

Catalan

Verb

borden

1. third-person plural present indicative form of bordar

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?r.d?(n)/
• Rhymes: -?rd?n

Noun

borden

1. Plural form of bord

Anagrams

• borend

Middle English

Etymology 1

From bord +? -en (“plural ending”)

Noun

borden

1. plural of bord

Etymology 2

From bord +? -en (“adjectival ending”).

Alternative forms

• bordyn, burden

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??rd?n/, /?bo?rd?n/, /?b?rd?n/

Adjective

borden

1. Composed of boards or planks.

Descendants

• English: boarden

References

• “b??rden, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-02.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?por?ten/

Verb

borden

1. first-person singular past indicative of bordit

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

borden m

1. definite singular of bord (Etymology 2)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

borden m

1. definite singular of bord (Etymology 2)

Spanish

Verb

borden

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of bordar.
2. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of bordar.
3. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of bordar.

Swedish

Noun

borden

1. definite plural of bord

English

Alternative forms

• encrease (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English increse, borrowed from Anglo-Norman encreistre, from Latin increscere (“increase”), present active infinitive of incresc?, from in (“in, on”) + cresc? (“grow”).

The verb is from Middle English incresen, encresen.

Pronunciation

• (verb): enPR: ?nkr?s?, IPA^(key): /?n?k?i?s/
• (noun): enPR: ?n?kr?s, IPA^(key): /??nk?i?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s
• Hyphenation: in?crease

Verb

increase (third-person singular simple present increases, present participle increasing, simple past and past participle increased)

1. (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.

   • The waters increased and bare up the ark.

2. (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
3. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     Fishes are infinitely more numerous of increasing than Beasts or Birds, as appears by the numerous Spawn.

4. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.

Synonyms

• (become larger): wax, go up, grow, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly); See also Thesaurus:increase
• (make larger): increment, raise, up (informal); See also Thesaurus:augment
• (multiply by production of young): proliferate, propagate, teem
• (to show more of the surface): wax

Antonyms

• (become larger): decrease, drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink; See also Thesaurus:decrease
• (make larger): cut, decrease, decrement, lower, reduce; See also Thesaurus:diminish
• (multiply by production of young):
• (to show more of the surface): wane

Derived terms

• increasable
• Increase

Translations

Noun

increase (countable and uncountable, plural increases)

1. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

     She says an increase in melting from climate change may put that at risk.

2. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
3. Offspring, progeny
4. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

Synonyms

• (amount by which a quantity is increased): gain, increment, raise (US, said of pay), rise; See also Thesaurus:adjunct or Thesaurus:acquisition
• (act or process of becoming larger): enlargement, expansion; See also Thesaurus:augmentation

Antonyms

• (amount by which a quantity is increased): cut, decrease, decrement, drop, fall, loss, lowering, reduction, shrinkage; See also Thesaurus:decrement
• (act or process of becoming larger): decline, decrease, diminishment; See also Thesaurus:diminution

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Cairenes, Ceresian, cerasine, resiance