auger

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English

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An auger.

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Etymology

From a rebracketing of Middle English a nauger (seen as an + auger), from Old English nafogār (“nave drill”, literally “nave spear”), from Proto-Germanic *nabōgaizaz. Cognate with Dutch avegaar.

Pronunciation

Noun

auger (plural augers)

  1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
  2. A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool).
  3. A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts
  4. A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.

Translations

plumber's snake — see plumber's snake

Verb

auger (third-person singular simple present augers, present participle augering, simple past and past participle augered)

  1. To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger.
  2. To proceed in the manner of an auger.
    • 2010, Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, The Silent Sea‎[1]:
      It augered into the water and vanishedunder the surface only to float up again, its keel pointing skyward.
    • 2012, Ronald Wright, A Scientific Romance‎[2]:
      There was no way to measure progress inside the sphere, to know whether it spun or leapt or wobbled like a top as it augered through the years.
    • 2014, Steven R. Boyett, Mortality Bridge‎[3]:
      It augers down again behind him to gyre like a mindless deadly battling top.

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French

Etymology

From auge.

Pronunciation

Verb

auger

  1. to dig in order to get the shape of a trough
  2. to bend a piece of flat iron into the shape of a gutter, of an eavestrough

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written auge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of auger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple auger
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple augeant
/o.ʒɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle augé
/o.ʒe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present auge
/oʒ/ 		auges
/oʒ/ 		auge
/oʒ/ 		augeons
/o.ʒɔ̃/ 		augez
/o.ʒe/ 		augent
/oʒ/
imperfect augeais
/o.ʒɛ/ 		augeais
/o.ʒɛ/ 		augeait
/o.ʒɛ/ 		augions
/o.ʒjɔ̃/ 		augiez
/o.ʒje/ 		augeaient
/o.ʒɛ/
past historic2 augeai
/o.ʒe/ 		augeas
/o.ʒa/ 		augea
/o.ʒa/ 		augeâmes
/o.ʒam/ 		augeâtes
/o.ʒat/ 		augèrent
/o.ʒɛʁ/
future augerai
/oʒ.ʁe/ 		augeras
/oʒ.ʁa/ 		augera
/oʒ.ʁa/ 		augerons
/oʒ.ʁɔ̃/ 		augerez
/oʒ.ʁe/ 		augeront
/oʒ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional augerais
/oʒ.ʁɛ/ 		augerais
/oʒ.ʁɛ/ 		augerait
/oʒ.ʁɛ/ 		augerions
/o.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		augeriez
/o.ʒə.ʁje/ 		augeraient
/oʒ.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present auge
/oʒ/ 		auges
/oʒ/ 		auge
/oʒ/ 		augions
/o.ʒjɔ̃/ 		augiez
/o.ʒje/ 		augent
/oʒ/
imperfect2 augeasse
/o.ʒas/ 		augeasses
/o.ʒas/ 		augeât
/o.ʒa/ 		augeassions
/o.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ 		augeassiez
/o.ʒa.sje/ 		augeassent
/o.ʒas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — auge
/oʒ/ 		— augeons
/o.ʒɔ̃/ 		augez
/o.ʒe/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin augēre, present active infinitive of augeō (“I increase, I augment”). From Proto-Italic *augeō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-.

Cognates include Proto-Germanic *aukaną, Ancient Greek αὐξάνω (auxánō), Lithuanian áugti, and, via Iranian, Old Armenian վաշխ (vašx). Akin to English eke.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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  1. To increase, eke, augment
  2. To enlarge, spread, expand
    Synonym: amplificar
    Antonyms: minuir, menguar
  3. To lengthen
  4. To exaggerate
  5. To honor, enrich
  6. (figuratively) To exalt, praise
    Synonyms: laudar, loar

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