different between enrich vs increment

English

Etymology

From Middle English enrichen, from Anglo-Norman enrichir and Old French enrichier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???t??/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Verb

enrich (third-person singular simple present enriches, present participle enriching, simple past and past participle enriched)

1. (transitive) To enhance.
2. (transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer. [from 14th c.]

   Synonym: endow

   Antonym: impoverish

3. (transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly. [from 17th c.]
4. (transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize. [from 17th c.]

   Antonym: impoverish

5. (physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel. [from 20th c.]

   Antonym: deplete

   Antonym: downblend

6. (transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify
7. (chemistry) To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.

Derived terms

• enricher
• enrichment

Translations

See also

• look out for number one
• every man for himself
• feather one's nest/feather one's own nest

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Enrich”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 198, column 2.

Anagrams

• Rhenic, incher, nicher, rhenic, richen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incrementum, from incr?sc? (whence increase), from in- + cr?sc? (“grow”). Equivalent to increase +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k??mn?t/

Noun

increment (plural increments)

1. The action of increasing or becoming greater.
   • 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, especially Minerals, &c

     the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies

   • June 9, 1832 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk

     A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

2. (heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
3. The amount of increase.
4. (rhetoric) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, […] think on these things."
5. (chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.
6. (grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.

Synonyms

• (action of increasing or becoming greater): enlargement, expansion; See also Thesaurus:augmentation
• (amount of increase): addition, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct

Antonyms

• (amount of increase): decrement; See also Thesaurus:decrement

Derived terms

• incremence (rare)
• incremental

Related terms

• increase

Translations

Verb

increment (third-person singular simple present increments, present participle incrementing, simple past and past participle incremented)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

Usage notes

• Used in many technical fields, especially in mathematics and computing.

Antonyms

• decrement

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin incr?mentum.

Noun

increment m (plural increments)

1. increment, increase

   Synonym: augment

Derived terms

• incremental

Further reading

• “increment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “increment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “increment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “increment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin incrementum

Noun

increment n (plural incrementuri)

1. increment

Declension