- word usage - Is augmented with or augmented by preferable . . .
Which is the preferred preposition to use after the word "augmented", as in the sentence "A is augmented with by B"? Does this depend on context? For concreteness, I am interested in mathematical usage, as in the "The set is augmented with redundant vectors for greater numerical robustness"
- Whats the difference between increased and increasing?
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
- Suped-up: is it a real idiom (vs souped-up)
Both sources below attest that the correct more common spelling is soup-up Suped-up and sooped-up are are just misspellings The expression is AmE in origin and it most likely derives from supercharge: As World Wide Words notes: Souped-up is known both in the UK and the US and was actually created in the latter country It’s one of the longer-lived slang terms, still widely used In its
- single word requests - How do you call wooden extension above water . . .
A pier may be built of wood, but many are constructed of steel pillars The term does certainly, however, overlap with 'jetty' It is usually pretty substantial The jetty is typically long, often wooden, and raised above the water level Though mooring may be involved, 'A jetty may serve as a breakwater, as a walkway, or both; or, in pairs, as a means of constricting a channel ' [Wikipedia
- Is it ever more appropriate to use cognizant over aware?
Personally, I eschew utilization of an over-augmented, trisyllabic linguistic unit like "cognizant" to express a paradigm when diminutive constructions are accessible I applaud you for NOT asking, "As 'cognizant' is longer and sounds more intellectual than 'aware' while it means pretty much the same thing, is there ever a time when I should use 'aware' when I could say 'cognizant' instead and
- history - What is the factual basis for pirate speech? (Did pirates . . .
Among British outlaws, yes: The onboard speech was most likely underclass British sailor with extra curse words, augmented with a polyglot slang of French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch picked up around the trade routes "
- capitalization - Should I capitalize the phrase that has its . . .
In the case of something like "This product features an Augmented Filter Subsystem (AFS)", I would normally capitalise it like that (and include the bracketed abbreviation) on the first reference I think using such a convention makes it just that little bit easier for the reader to recognise what the abbreviation refers to
- implement something for in on with something?
Which preposition is correct to use in the following sentence?: Implementation of this technique for in on with complex objects is complicated (meaning: it is complicated to apply this technique to
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