different between enhance vs adorn

English

Alternative forms

• inhance, enhaunce, inhaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English enhauncen, from Anglo-Norman enhauncer, from Old French enhaucier (“make greater”), from Late Latin inaltare (“exalt”), from Latin in + altus (“high”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?h??ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?hæns/
• Rhymes: -??ns, -æns

Verb

enhance (third-person singular simple present enhances, present participle enhancing, simple past and past participle enhanced)

1. (obsolete) To lift, raise up.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:

     nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst: / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.

2. To augment or make something greater.
3. To improve something by adding features.
4. (intransitive) To be raised up; to grow larger.

   A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

5. (radiology) To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).

Synonyms

• heighten
• See also Thesaurus:improve

Translations

Middle English

Verb

enhance

1. Alternative form of enhauncen

English

Etymology

From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin ad?rn?re, present active infinitive of ad?rn?; from ad +? ?rn? (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??d??n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??d??(?)n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Verb

adorn (third-person singular simple present adorns, present participle adorning, simple past and past participle adorned)

1. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

     At church, with meek and unaffected grace, / His looks adorned the venerable place.

Synonyms

• beautify
• bedeck
• decorate
• deck
• grace
• ornament
• prettify
• See also Thesaurus:decorate

Translations

Noun

adorn

1. (obsolete) adornment

Adjective

adorn

1. (obsolete) adorned; ornate

Related terms

Anagrams

• Ardon, Daron, Doran, Drona, NORAD, Nador, Nardo, Ronda, and/or, andro, andro-, norad, radon, rando