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word usage - Is augmented with or augmented by preferable . . . 11 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"
How do augment and increase differ? - English Language Usage . . . From Google's definition: aug·ment verb ôɡˈment 1 make (something) greater by adding to it; increase "he augmented his summer income by painting houses" When you use augment, you mean that you are adding to something by adding in something else; the word is generally used with a prepositional phrase starting with by or with Increase doesn't have that sense Now, to your example If the
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
expressions - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 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? In Chinese
punctuation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I tend to use the rule that colons should only be before a list, or as an augmented period to indicate that the second part defines or gives an example of the first
What does pneumatic mean when applied to a person? 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)
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
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
word usage - Can sufficient be used in a negative sense? - English . . . 2 Can the word "sufficient" be used in a negative sense, i e relating to something that has a negative effect when augmented? Example: These problems influence the results for sufficiently high speeds Since "sufficient" is a fundamental logical concept (as the logical opposite of "necessary"), I feel it shouldn't be "biased" in this way
What is the meaning of the word kind in Sonnet 30 of Edmund Spensers . . . But that I burn much more in boiling sweat, And feel my flames augmented manifold? What more miraculous thing may be told, That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice, And ice, which is congeal’d with senseless cold, Should kindle fire by wonderful device? Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of