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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 . . .
Definition of augment by Dictionary com: to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase Definition of increase by Dictionary com: to make greater, as in number, size, st
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
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