word usage - Is "augmented with" or "augmented by" preferable ...
Jun 9, 2015 · 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 …
How do "augment" and "increase" differ? - English Language
Dec 7, 2015 · 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 …
expressions - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Dec 2, 2013 · 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 …
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 …
'With' vs 'by' - where to use these two preposition in an English ...
Aug 7, 2015 · The word "by" is a versatile preposition in English, having had over a thousand years since it came to us from Old English to develop its meanings. The OED places 39 major …
meaning - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Jan 7, 2025 · The evaluation of conduct involves some amount of generalization. [here, the non-count usage allows for generalisation in the strict sense† to be applied in certain cases] …
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 …
"Suped-up": is it a real idiom (vs souped-up)
Apr 13, 2017 · 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 …
What's the difference between "increased" and "increasing"?
Aug 4, 2015 · 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 …
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.