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 augment [ɒ:g'ment]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 增加, 增长

vi. 增加, 增长

[计] 增加; 增量; 添加

[医] 增进, 增加


  1. He augments his income by teaching in the evenings.
    他晚上去教书以增加收入。
  2. Having the ability or tendency to augment.
    有增加或扩大作用的具有增加的能力或趋势的
  3. Something added in order to augment weight or size or fill space.
    装填物为了增加重量或尺寸或填满空余而加进去的物质


augment
[ verb ]
  1. enlarge or increase

    2. <verb.change>
    The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East
  2. grow or intensify

    3. <verb.change>
    The pressure augmented


Augment \Aug*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Augmented}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Augmenting}.] [L. augmentare, fr. augmentum an
increase, fr. augere to increase; perh. akin to Gr. ?, ?, E.
wax, v., and eke, v.: cf. F. augmenter.]
1. To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to
swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by
re["e]forcements; rain augments a stream; impatience
augments an evil.

But their spite still serves
His glory to augment. --Milton.

2. (Gram.) To add an augment to.


Augment \Aug*ment"\, v. i.
To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a
stream augments by rain.


Augment \Aug"ment\, n. [L. augmentum: cf. F. augment.]
1. Enlargement by addition; increase.

2. (Gram.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial
vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

Note: In Greek, the syllabic augment is a prefixed ?, forming
an intial syllable; the temporal augment is an increase
of the quantity (time) of an initial vowel, as by
changing ? to ?.

  1. About half the special police force, formed by putting officers on four hours of voluntary overtime after a full eight-hour shift, went to augment regular patrols in the south-central area, where gangs are most active.
  2. Meanwhile, Britain, the Netherlands, and Italy have sent in mine-sweeping ships to augment U.S. efforts.
  3. Norton Desktop for Windows, designed to augment rather than replace Windows, is one of the best software values I've ever seen.
  4. The firms considered most at risk are tiny brokerages that sell primarily to retail clients but also take trading positions themselves to augment revenue.
  5. Mr. Lanier and the trust said they still needed a firm commitment from President Reagan himself in order to augment fundraising.
  6. And he would "augment" spending on technologies to make burning coal cleaner.
  7. Robins emphasized, for example, that any funds left over from the smaller second trust would be made available to augment payments to Dalkon Shield victims.
  8. Among other things, his administration has developed an extensive block-club program, put police in mini-stations around the city, and recruited thousands of teen-agers and other volunteers into programs designed to augment the police force.
  9. More important, though, the foreigners are taking equity stakes in order to help them gain access to the booming U.S. air travel market, which can augment their passenger traffic.
  10. The venture is being viewed as a test of a service that could augment programming delivered by existing cable TV systems, freeing up channel capacity on the systems, as well as a way to deliver programming to rural areas not already served by cable.
  11. Under the planned transaction, the PaineWebber investors will augment Braniff's current management with "senior executives from the nation's most successful airlines," PaineWebber said.
  12. "He will be replaced by a justice surely more inclined to augment the state's power to regulate abortions, more accommodating of religion and more dubious of affirmative action," said University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard.
  13. Francis Ford Coppola's continuation of the bloody Corleone saga arrives on Christmas Day, giving it only one week to augment the 1990 box-office total.
  14. Congressmen currently augment their salaries with thousands of dollars in speaking fees, a practice criticized as an invitation to influence-buying.
  15. Mr. Oppasser heads a group of 11 people, formed two years ago, to augment the regional viewpoints with a global view from headquarters.
  16. This facility might be needed to augment leased line capacity at peak times. Third, it incorporates a feature called triggered RIP (router information protocol).
  17. Under the plan, the military is training and deploying thousands of civilian militiamen to augment rural security.
  18. The U.S. also is trying to persuade Belgium to augment its tiny staff of export-control officers.
  19. What we are trying to do is augment." As for challenging Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who barnstormed in West Germany last month and has just completed a visit to France, Bush disavowed any intention of being provocative.
  20. They joined forces two years ago. "Then, he calls and tells me we're representing Captain Hazelwood." They needed an Alaska lawyer to augment the team and, after much research, chose Dick Madson of Fairbanks.
  21. The humor should only be inserted into the talk to augment the talk's basic points.
  22. About 9,500 American troops from bases in the United States were flown in to augment the 12,000 soldiers based in Panama.
  23. Namely, the business supplies a tremendous amount of cash that can be available to pay down parent company debt, fund acquisitions, and augment the company's food businesses.
  24. The software would be contained within the system that delivers the information to the TV set. Microsoft recently gave a demonstration of how this service could augment existing TV entertainment.
  25. But Wein expects Getz, instead of starting with early colleagues, to play in the first half with his usual quartet and augment it with a few veterans in the second half.
  26. Merck did not disclose terms of the agreement, but said it would augment its manufacture of wound dressing products that use kelp.
  27. Mr. Keating said Sunday that Commonwealth Bank "cannot finance the acquisition from its existing capital base, and the (federal) government isn't in a position to augment that capital base from its budget.
  28. JAL pilots staged a partial strike last month to protest the company's plans to augment its 63 non-Japanese pilots with 180 expatriates from Iasco.
  29. He was a retired school teacher, a dishevelled, gloomy individual trying to augment his pension.
  30. "We will support it, we will thank him, and we will augment it where appropriate," said Rep. Vic Fazio (D., Calif.).
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