different between evolve vs augment

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?volv? (“unroll, unfold”), from ?- (“out of”) (short form of ex) + volv? (“roll”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??v?lv/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v?lv/
• Hyphenation: e?volve

Verb

evolve (third-person singular simple present evolves, present participle evolving, simple past and past participle evolved)

1. To move in regular procession through a system.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     The animal soul sooner expands and evolves it self to its full orb and extent than the humane Soul

   • 1840, William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences

     The principles which art involves, science alone evolves.

   • 1870, John Shairp, Culture and Religion

     Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.

2. (intransitive) To change; transform.

3. To come into being; develop.
   • 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime

     You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
4. (biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, p. 502:

     There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

5. (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).

6. (transitive) To cause something to change or transform.

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Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lve

Verb

evolve

1. third-person singular present indicative of evolvere

Latin

Etymology

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??u?ol.u?e/, [e??u????u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?vol.ve/, [??v?lv?]

Verb

?volve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?volv?

Portuguese

Verb

evolve

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of evolver
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of evolver

English

Etymology

From Middle English augmenten, from Middle French augmenter, from Old French augmenter, from Late Latin augmentare (“to increase”), from Latin augmentum (“an increase, growth”), from augere (“to increase”).

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /????m?nt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /???m?nt/
  • Rhymes: -?nt
• Noun:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /????m?nt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /???m?nt/
• Hyphenation: aug?ment

Verb

augment (third-person singular simple present augments, present participle augmenting, simple past and past participle augmented)

1. (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.

   The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.

2. (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
3. (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
4. (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
5. (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.

Translations

References

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

Noun

augment (plural augments)

1. (grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
2. (grammar) In some Bantu languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
3. An increase.

Derived terms

• augmentless

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Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• mutagen, negatum

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augmentum.

Noun

augment m (plural augments)

1. increase, rise, rising

Related terms

• augmentar

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?.m??/

Noun

augment m (plural augments)

1. (medieval law) part of the estates which the widow could inherit
   • Est aussi conclud et accordé qu'au lieu de douaire dont l'on a accoustumé d'user en France, ladite dame Elisabeth aura pour augment le dot dudit mariage selon l'usage des pais du roy d'Espagne, 166,666 escus d'or sol deux tiers. (marriage contract of the prince of Spain and Ms Elisabeth of France) note: this quote is in Middle French.
2. (grammar) augment

   L'augment syllabique consiste en l’addition d’une syllabe ; l'augment temporel, dans le changement d’une brève en longue.

Related terms

• augmenter

Further reading

• “augment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).