different between widen vs augment

English

Etymology

From wide +? -en (verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?d?n/
• Rhymes: -a?d?n

Verb

widen (third-person singular simple present widens, present participle widening, simple past and past participle widened)

1. (intransitive) To become wide or wider.

2. (transitive) To make wide or wider.
3. (transitive) To let out clothes to a larger size.

4. (transitive) To broaden or extend in scope or range.

5. (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.

   Antonym: narrow

   to widen a short variable to an int variable

Derived terms

• widenable

Translations

Anagrams

• Edwin, Wendi, dwine, indew, winde, wined

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

Related terms

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).