different between enlarge vs eche

English

Etymology

From Middle English enlargen, from Old French enlargier, enlargir.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?l??d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?l??d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Verb

enlarge (third-person singular simple present enlarges, present participle enlarging, simple past and past participle enlarged)

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1. (transitive) To make (something) larger.
2. (intransitive) To grow larger.
3. (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.

   • O ye Corinthians, our […] heart is enlarged.

4. (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
   • 1664, Samuel Butler, Hudibras 2.2.68:

     I shall enlarge upon the Point.

5. (archaic) To release; to set at large.
   • 1580, Philip Sidney, Arcadia 329:

     Like a Lionesse lately enlarged.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:

     Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge, / But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay, / I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away.

   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Contentment (sermon)

     It will enlarge us from all restraints.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act II Scene II:

     Uncle of Exeter, enlarge the man committed yesterday, that rail'd against our person. We consider it was excess of wine that set him on.

6. (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
7. (law) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).

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Synonyms

• (make larger, expand): embiggen, enlargen, largen, greaten
• (speak or write at length): dilate, expatiate

Related terms

• magnify
• supersize

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

• General, general, gleaner, reangle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?t?/

Etymology

From Middle English eche, ece, from Old English ??e, ??e (“perpetual, eternal, everlasting”), from Proto-Germanic *aiwukiz (“eternal”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?yewg?ih?- and *h?yug?ih?- respectively, to assume a reconstruction of Pre-Germanic *h?oyug?ih?- with an original meaning of "ever-living". Cognate with Dutch eeuwig (“eternal”), German ewig (“eternal”), Swedish evig (“perpetual, eternal”), Latin i?gis (“continual”).

Adjective

eche (comparative more eche, superlative most eche)

1. (dialectal, archaic) Eternal; everlasting.

Related terms

Anagrams

• EHEC

Asturian

Verb

eche

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of echar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of echar

Galician

Etymology

From Suevic * agj? (compare English edge, Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?et??e?/

Noun

eche m (plural eches)

1. hide-and-seek (children’s game)

   Synonym: agachadas

2. rocky ridge

   Synonyms: farallón, facho, barroco, berreco, louro, xorfe

References

• “eche” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.

Jakaltek

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *ekaj.

Noun

eche

1. axe

References

• Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano?^[1] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 28; 18

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ?l?.

Adjective

eche

1. each

Alternative forms

• ælc, ælch, elch, ilk

Descendants

• English: each
• Scots: ilk, elk

Etymology 2

From Old English e?e.

Noun

eche

1. Alternative form of ache (“aching”)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?et??e/, [?e.t??e]

Verb

eche

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