different between increase vs eche

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

• 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.