2020年5月22日 · The usage "A is augmented by B" indicates that B is the implied subject in the passive-voice construction "A is augmented". That is, B is doing the augmentation: "B augments A". The usage "A is augmented with B" implies that B is what A is augmented with, by an unspecified subject. This is a predicate adjective verb phrase.

2015年12月7日 · If the secretary augmented her husband's salary, that means her salary is added to his, for a greater combined income for the couple. If the secretary increased her husband's salary, that means that she g ave her husband a raise (i.e. the extra money would be his salary as well as the original amount) and it would imply that the lady was her ...

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2013年12月1日 · If a person is very social in a party, striking up conversations with different people from one end of the hall to the other end, are there some good expressions to describe this person?

2015年8月4日 · Increased as a past participle merely means augmented relative to some prior value, e.g., a car traveling at 20 mph that was previously going at 10 mph. Increasing means that the rate has been going up, and continues to go up.

2015年8月7日 · Living or non-living is not the issue. I travel by plane. I travel by horse. I go with style. I go with God. ...

2013年6月6日 · Perhaps you are thinking of the word euphemism, which has senses “The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive, blunt or vulgar than the word or phrase it replaces” and “A word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way.”

When a female is described as pneumatic it means she has large breasts (possibly artificially augmented by plastic surgery). To my mind, there's also the implication of her being both well-equipped and possibly available for bouncy bouncy / mattress dancing (slang euphemisms for sexual intercourse).

2022年8月12日 · A decree of augmentation being obtained, the question occurred, How the augmented stipend was to be localled? The Lords found, That the stipend modified was to be divided equally betwixt the parishes, effeiring to their rentals proven ; and that each patron has right only to allocate his proportion thereof within his own parish.

2019年5月27日 · As far as I know, this feature has no technical designation, but as it is most commonly heard marking cadences, cadence marker would do adequate service, or with more detail, a schwa-augmented cadence might be a good suggestion.