INCREASE
\ˈɪnkɹiːs], \ˈɪnkɹiːs], \ˈɪ_n_k_ɹ_iː_s]\
Definitions of INCREASE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"
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the act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary"
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a change resulting in an increase; "the increase is scheduled for next month"
By Princeton University
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become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"
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the act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary"
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a change resulting in an increase; "the increase is scheduled for next month"
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make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
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To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.
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To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence.
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That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
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Progeny; issue; offspring.
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To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; - opposed to decrease.
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The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; - said of the moon.
By Oddity Software
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To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
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To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.
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To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence.
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That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
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Progeny; issue; offspring.
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To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; - opposed to decrease.
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The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; - said of the moon.
By Noah Webster.
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To become greater in any respect; multiply; grow.
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To make greater in any respect; enlarge.
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A growing larger; that which is added to the original stock; growth; produce; profit; issue; offspring; the period of waxing; said of the moon.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To grow in size: to become greater: to advance.
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To make greater: to advance: to extend: to aggravate.
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Growth: addition to the original stock: profit: produce: progeny.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To make or become greater; enlarge; augment; grow; multiply.
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A growing larger or greater; augmentation; increment; produce.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Augmentation; growth; increment; profit; produce; progeny.
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To make greater; to advance; to add; to extend; to aggravate.
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To become greater in any quality that is capable of more or less; to grow; to advance; to multiply.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To make more or greater; to advance or exalt; to extend; to spread; to make worse; to augment; to grow.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Augmentation of the size or weight of a body, by the application of new molecules around those which already exist.
By Robley Dunglison
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.