Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - modify
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Modify
modify
(modifies, modifying, modified) 1. If you modify something, you change it slightly, usually in order to improve it. The club members did agree to modify their recruitment policy... The plane was a modified version of the C-130. VERB: V n, V-ed • modification (modifications) Relatively minor modifications were required. N-VAR 2. A word or group of words that modifies another word describes or classifies something, or restricts the meaning of the word. (TECHNICAL) It is a rule of English that adjectives generally precede the noun they modify: we say ‘a good cry’, not ‘a cry good’. VERB: V n
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verb (-fied; -fying) Etymology: Middle English modifien, from Anglo-French modifier, from Latin modificare to measure, moderate, from modus Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to make less extreme ; moderate 2. a. to limit or restrict the meaning of especially in a grammatical construction b. to change (a vowel) by umlaut 3. a. to make minor changes in b. to make basic or fundamental changes in often to give a new orientation to or to serve a new end the wing of a bird is an arm modified for flying intransitive verb to undergo change Synonyms: see change • modifiability noun • modifiable adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 make less severe or extreme; tone down (modify one's demands). 2 make partial changes in; make different. 3 Gram. qualify or expand the sense of (a word etc.). 4 Phonet. change (a vowel) by umlaut. 5 Chem. change or replace all the substituent radicals of a polymer, thereby changing its physical properties such as solubility etc. (modified starch). Derivatives modifiable adj. modificatory adj. Etymology: ME f. OF modifier f. L modificare (as MODE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) варьировать 2) видоизменять 3) модифицировать - modify an instruction - modify wood ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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гл. 1) превращать 2) изменять, изменяться, модифицировать 3) смягчать Syn: change, range ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. модифицировать, видоизменять 2. смягчать; снижать to modify the sentence —- смягчать приговор to modify one's tone —- смягчить (сбавить, снизить) тон to modify one's demands —- умерить свои требования 3. изменять с помощью умляута 4. грам. определять adjectives modify nouns —- прилагательные определяют существительные ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. 1) видоизменять 2) смягчать; умерять 3) ling. видоизменять через умляут 4) gram. определять Syn: see change ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 to make small changes to something in order to improve it and make it more suitable or effective (The present law needs to be modified.) 2 technical if an adj, adv etc modifies another word it describes it or limits its meaning (In the phrase 'walk slowly', the adv 'slowly' modifies the verb 'walk'.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1385, from O.Fr. modifier, from L. modificare "to limit, restrain," from modus "measure, manner" (see mode (1)) + root of facere "to make." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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