different between increase vs adder

English

Alternative forms

• encrease (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English increse, borrowed from Anglo-Norman encreistre, from Latin increscere (“increase”), present active infinitive of incresc?, from in (“in, on”) + cresc? (“grow”).

The verb is from Middle English incresen, encresen.

Pronunciation

• (verb): enPR: ?nkr?s?, IPA^(key): /?n?k?i?s/
• (noun): enPR: ?n?kr?s, IPA^(key): /??nk?i?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s
• Hyphenation: in?crease

Verb

increase (third-person singular simple present increases, present participle increasing, simple past and past participle increased)

1. (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.

   • The waters increased and bare up the ark.

2. (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
3. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     Fishes are infinitely more numerous of increasing than Beasts or Birds, as appears by the numerous Spawn.

4. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.

Synonyms

• (become larger): wax, go up, grow, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly); See also Thesaurus:increase
• (make larger): increment, raise, up (informal); See also Thesaurus:augment
• (multiply by production of young): proliferate, propagate, teem
• (to show more of the surface): wax

Antonyms

• (become larger): decrease, drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink; See also Thesaurus:decrease
• (make larger): cut, decrease, decrement, lower, reduce; See also Thesaurus:diminish
• (multiply by production of young):
• (to show more of the surface): wane

Derived terms

• increasable
• Increase

Translations

Noun

increase (countable and uncountable, plural increases)

1. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

     She says an increase in melting from climate change may put that at risk.

2. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
3. Offspring, progeny
4. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

Synonyms

• (amount by which a quantity is increased): gain, increment, raise (US, said of pay), rise; See also Thesaurus:adjunct or Thesaurus:acquisition
• (act or process of becoming larger): enlargement, expansion; See also Thesaurus:augmentation

Antonyms

• (amount by which a quantity is increased): cut, decrease, decrement, drop, fall, loss, lowering, reduction, shrinkage; See also Thesaurus:decrement
• (act or process of becoming larger): decline, decrease, diminishment; See also Thesaurus:diminution

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Cairenes, Ceresian, cerasine, resiance

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æd?/
• Rhymes: -æd?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English nadder, addere, rebracketing of “a naddere” as “an addere”, from Old English n?dre, n?ddre (“snake, serpent, viper, adder”), from Proto-Germanic *nadr? (“snake, viper”) (compare West Frisian njirre, Dutch adder, German Natter, Otter), from pre-Germanic *néh?treh?, variant of Proto-Indo-European *n?h?trih? (compare Welsh neidr, Latin natr?x (“watersnake”)), from *(s)neh?- (“to spin, twist”) (compare Dutch naaien).

Alternative forms

• edder (dialectal)

Noun

adder (plural adders)

1. (obsolete) Any snake.
   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2

     CALIBAN:

     [...]

     His spirits hear me,

     And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch

     Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire,

     Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark

     Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but

     For every trifle are they set upon me,

     Sometimes like apes that mow and chatter at me,

     And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which

     Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount

     Their pricks at my footfall; sometimes am I

     All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues

     Do hiss me into madness—

     [...]

2. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper.
   1. (chiefly Britain) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
      1. The common European adder (Vipera berus).
   2. The puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
   3. (US, Canada) Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders
      1. Lampropeltis triangulum (milk snake).
      2. Heterodon spp. (hog-nosed snakes), a genus of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
   4. Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders
      1. Acanthophis spp. (death adders), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
      2. Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead, a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
   5. A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).

Derived terms

• adder fish
• death adder
• puff adder (Bitis arietans)

Translations

Etymology 2

From add +? -er.

Noun

adder (plural adders)

1. Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
2. An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
3. Something which adds or increases.

Derived terms

• carry-lookahead adder
• carry-save adder
• carry-skip adder
• full adder
• half adder

Translations

Further reading

• adder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dared, dread, radde, re-add, readd

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch adder, from Middle Dutch adder, adre, misdivison of nadder, nadre, from Old Dutch *nadra, from Proto-Germanic *nadr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ad?r/

Noun

adder (plural adders, diminutive addertjie)

1. viper, adder

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch adder, adre, misdivison of nadder, nadre, from Old Dutch *nadra, from Proto-West Germanic *nadr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.d?r/
• Hyphenation: ad?der
• Rhymes: -?d?r

Noun

adder m or f (plural adders or adderen, diminutive addertje n)

1. viper, adder; snake of the family Viperidae
2. common viper, Vipera berus

Hypernyms

• slang

Derived terms

• addergebroed
• boomadder
• een adder aan zijn borst koesteren
• een addertje onder het gras
• groefkopadder
• pofadder

Descendants

• Afrikaans: adder

Anagrams

• dader

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

adder

1. imperative of addere

Old Prussian

Conjunction

adder

1. or

   w?iklis adder m?rg? - boy or girl

2. but