augment — قاموس الإنجليزية

فعل

1. To increase; to make larger or supplement.

   الاستعمال

   • متعدٍ

   أمثلة

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

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   [T]he fauour of Princes and Magiſtrates noryſheth, augmenteth, and amplyfyeth all artes and ſciences by liberalitie, and extynguyſheth the ſame by miſerable couetouſnes and parcimonie.

2. To grow; to increase; to become greater.

   الاستعمال

   • لازم
   • انعكاسي

3. To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.

4. To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).

5. To add an augment to.

   الاستعمال

   • متعدٍ

اسم

1. A grammatical prefix In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.

   أمثلة

   The augment is found in Greek, Indo-Iranian, Armenian and Phrygian.

2. A grammatical prefix Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Fundamentally the augment characterizes a verbal action viewed from a non-contemporary standpoint, either the moment of speaking (or writing) or a further verbal action.

3. A grammatical prefix In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.

4. An increase.

فعل

1. enlarge or increase

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   increase

   أمثلة

   The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East

2. grow or intensify

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   grow

   أمثلة

   The pressure augmented