Increase
[ɪn'kriːs] or ['ɪnkris]
Definition
(noun.) the act of increasing something; 'he gave me an increase in salary'.
(noun.) the amount by which something increases; 'they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare'.
(noun.) a change resulting in an increase; 'the increase is scheduled for next month'.
(noun.) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; 'the increase in unemployment'; 'the growth of population'.
(verb.) make bigger or more; 'The boss finally increased her salary'; 'The university increased the number of students it admitted'.
(verb.) become bigger or greater in amount; 'The amount of work increased'.
Typist: Osborn--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
(v. i.) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.
(v. i.) That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
(v. i.) Progeny; issue; offspring.
(v. i.) Generation.
(v. i.) The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon.
Typist: Veronica
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Grow, augment, be augmented, become greater or larger.[2]. Multiply, be fruitful.
v. a. [1]. Augment, enlarge, make greater, make larger.[2]. Enhance, raise, advance, heighten, add to.[3]. Extend, prolong.[4]. Aggravate, intensify.
n. [1]. Augmentation, enlargement, extension, expansion, growth, addition, accession, increment.[2]. Product, produce, gain, profit.[3]. Offspring, issue, progeny, descendants.
Editor: Seth
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:acception, growth, extension,[See AUGMENTATION]
SYN:Advance, heighten, dilutenhance, aggregate, pile_up, raise, magnify, spread,[See DECREASE]
Typist: Nathaniel
Definition
v.i. to grow in size: to become greater: to advance.—v.t. to make greater: to advance: to extend: to aggravate.—adj. Increas′able.—ns. Increas′ableness; In′crease growth: addition to the original stock: profit: produce: progeny.—adj. Increase′ful (Shak.) abundant of produce.—adv. Increas′ingly in the way of increase.
Typed by Ann
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of an increase in your family, may denote failure in some of your plans, and success to another. To dream of an increase in your business, signifies that you will overcome existing troubles.
Typed by Betsy
Examples
- A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- You will drive him to desperation, she said, and increase our dangers tenfold. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This increase of evaporative power increased the speed the engine could attain. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It cannot promote health nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The largest per capita increase since 1870 has been in malt liquors, and the next in coffee. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- From this beginning cutters gradually added additional facets to increase the brilliancy until there were thirty-four in all. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If any thing could increase her delight, it was perceiving that the baby would soon have outgrown its first set of caps. Jane Austen. Emma.
- So there it was, in the haze yonder; and it increased and multiplied. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Move the lens so that its distance from the candle is increased, and then find the image on a piece of paper. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Her surprise increased with her indifference: he almost fancied that she suspected him of being tainted with foreignness. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- This increase of evaporative power increased the speed the engine could attain. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In six years his royalties increased from $300 a year to over $200,000 a year. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- As we advanced the light increased until presently we emerged into well-lighted passageways. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- This idea increased my melancholy, for I hate, and always did hate, anything like London in miniature. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- This foresight increases still further his natural disposition to save. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It increases as fast as the means of the consumers increase for procuring it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We learned in Section 287 that the strength of a current increases when the electromotive force increases, and diminishes when the electromotive force diminishes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The quantity of money, on the contrary, must in every country naturally increase as the value of the annual produce increases. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Their consumption must increase as their mass increases, or rather in a much greater proportion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what you owe; it makes you appear a careful as well as an honest man, and that still increases your credit. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He has many friends, and is at a time of life when friends and engagements are continually increasing. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But there are, and the demand is steadily increasing. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It could only be imputed to increasing attachment. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Brotherhood through sorrow, sorrow for common sufferings and for irreparable mutual injuries, is spreading and increasing throughout the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I have thought it over, and have decided on increasing the dose. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Editor: Trudy