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uplift
English
Etymology
up- +? lift
Pronunciation
- (verb) enPR: ?pl?ft?, IPA(key): /?p?l?ft/
- (adjective, noun) enPR: ?p?l?ft, IPA(key): /??pl?ft/
Verb
uplift (third-person singular simple present uplifts, present participle uplifting, simple past and past participle uplifted)
- To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.
- (law, of a penalty) To aggravate; to increase.
- (aviation, travel) To be accepted for carriage on a flight.
- (New Zealand) To remove (a child) from a damaging home environment by a social welfare organization.
Translations
Noun
uplift (plural uplifts)
- The act or result of being uplifted.
- (geology) A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building.
- 1971, George Finiel Adams, Jerome Wyckoff, Landforms (page 143)
- Recent uplift of the Maine and Oregon coasts has not been enough to "undrown" the larger valleys; the shorelines are still submergent.
- 1971, George Finiel Adams, Jerome Wyckoff, Landforms (page 143)
- (colloquial) A brassiere that raises the breasts.
See also
- improvement
Translations
Anagrams
- lift up, liftup, pitful
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enhance
English
Alternative forms
- inhance, enhaunce, inhaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English enhauncen, from Anglo-Norman enhauncer, from Old French enhaucier (“make greater”), from Late Latin inaltare (“exalt”), from Latin in + altus (“high”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?h??ns/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?hæns/
- Rhymes: -??ns, -æns
Verb
enhance (third-person singular simple present enhances, present participle enhancing, simple past and past participle enhanced)
- (obsolete) To lift, raise up.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
- nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst: / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
- To augment or make something greater.
- To improve something by adding features.
- (intransitive) To be raised up; to grow larger.
- A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
- (radiology) To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).
Synonyms
- heighten
- See also Thesaurus:improve
Translations
Middle English
Verb
enhance
- Alternative form of enhauncen
enhance From the web:
- what enhances methadone
- what enhances iron absorption
- what enhances the transparency of an increment
- what enhances the growth rate of precipitation
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