different between enhance vs cultivate
enhance
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)
- (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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
- To augment or make something greater.
- To improve something by adding features.
- (intransitive) To be raised up; to grow larger.
- A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
- (radiology) To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).
Synonyms
- heighten
- See also Thesaurus:improve
Translations
Middle English
Verb
enhance
- Alternative form of enhauncen
enhance From the web:
- what enhances methadone
- what enhances iron absorption
- what enhances the transparency of an increment
- what enhances the growth rate of precipitation
cultivate
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin cultiv?tus, perfect passive participle of cultiv? (“till, cultivate”), from cult?vus (“tilled”), from Latin cultus, perfect passive participle of col? (“till, cultivate”), which comes from earlier *quel?, from Proto-Indo-European *k?el- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (pél?) and Sanskrit ???? (cárati). The same Proto-Indo-European root also gave Latin in-quil-?nus (“inhabitant”) and anculus (“servant”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?lt?ve?t/
- Hyphenation: cul?ti?vate
Verb
cultivate (third-person singular simple present cultivates, present participle cultivating, simple past and past participle cultivated)
- To grow plants, notably crops.
- (figuratively) To nurture; to foster; to tend.
- To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.
Derived terms
Translations
Interlingua
Participle
cultivate
- past participle of cultivar
cultivate From the web:
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- what cultivates a positive outlook
- what cultivates resilience
- what's cultivated land
- what's cultivated plant
- what cultivated forest
- what's cultivated rice
- what cultivated area
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