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enhance (iou) and Simon Fraser University (sh)


enhance (iou)



enhance verb. Also inhance. ME.
[Anglo-Norman enhauncer prob. alt. of Old French enhaucier from Proto-Romance, from Latin IN-2 + altus high.]
verb trans. Lift, raise; raise the level of. ME-L16.
verb trans. Exalt in rank, wealth, etc.; elevate spiritually or morally; lift up with pride; praise. ME-M17.
verb trans.
a. Make appear greater; exaggerate. LME.
G. Downes The satirist wished to enhance the infirmity of Philip.
b. Raise in degree; heighten, intensify, (a quality, attribute, etc.). L16.
Gibbon These delights were enhanced by the memory of past hardships.
a. verb trans. Raise (a price or value); increase (a charge or cost). LME.
b. verb intrans. Of property: rise in price. Formerly (of prices): rise. L15.
verb trans. Increase in (or formerly, in) price, value, importance, attractiveness, etc. Also, improve in quality, utility, or (formerly) Beauty. E16.
Which Computer? The 1 / 4-inch tape streamer storage system..has been enhanced to back-up the..disc drives.
enhancer noun LME.
enhancive, enhansive adjective tending to enhance M19.

Simon Fraser University (sh)




Privately endowed university in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, with a branch campus in Vancouver.

It was established in 1963 and named after the explorer Simon Fraser. It has faculties of arts, science, applied sciences, graduate studies, business administration, Education, and continuing studies and a school for the contemporary arts.