increase
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ɪnˈkɹiːs/]
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1. increase (verb) — sense 1
Definition: (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
Example: His rage only increased when I told him of the lost money.
2. increase (verb) — sense 2
Definition: To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
Example: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
3. increase (verb) — sense 3
Definition: To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
Example: Fishes are infinitely more numerous of increasing than Beasts or Birds, as appears by the numerous Spawn.
4. increase (noun) — sense 4
Definition: An amount by which a quantity is increased.
Example: An increase of about 30% in hits on the website.
5. increase (noun) — sense 5
Definition: For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
Example: In socialist religion God was replaced by humanity, a superior creation in which the individual could find an object of love and worship: he could thus rise above his insignificant ego and experience the joy of sacrificing his own interest to the infinite increase of collective Being..
6. increase (noun) — sense 6
Definition: Offspring, progeny.
Example: That infortunate imperfit Embrion of my idle houres the Ile of Dogs before mentioned, breeding vnto me ſuch bitter throwes in the teaming as it did, and the tempeſtes that aroſe at his birth, ſo aſtoniſhing outragious and violent as if my braine had bene conceiued of another Hercules, I was ſo terrifyed with my owne encreaſe (like a woman long trauailing to bee deliuered of a monſter) that it was no ſooner borne but I was glad to run from it.
Structure of the word
Roots:- ḱer (grow, Proto-Indo-European)
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