modify
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Etymology
From Middle English modifien, from Middle French modifier, from Latin modificare (“to limit, control, regulate, deponent”), from modificari (“to measure off, set bound to, moderate”), from modus (“measure”) + facere (“to make”); see mode.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɒdɪfaɪ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑdɪfaɪ/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: mod‧i‧fy
Verb
modify (third-person singular simple present modifies, present participle modifying, simple past and past participle modified)
- (transitive) To change part of.
- Her publisher advised her to modify a few parts of the book to make it easier to read.
- (intransitive) To be or become modified.
- (transitive) To set bounds to; to moderate.
- (grammar, transitive) To qualify the meaning of.
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Translations
to change part of
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to be or become modified
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References
- “modify”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “modify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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