auger
English
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Alternative forms
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.
Noun
auger (plural augers)
- A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
- 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 231
- Pete Burnett needs a fan belt for his auger.
- 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 231
- A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool).
- A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts
- A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.
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Verb
auger (third-person singular simple present augers, present participle augering, simple past and past participle augered)
- To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger.
- To proceed in the manner of an auger.
- 2010, Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, The Silent Sea:
- It augered into the water and vanishedunder the surface only to float up again, its keel pointing skyward.
- 2012, Ronald Wright, A Scientific Romance:
- 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:
- It augers down again behind him to gyre like a mindless deadly battling top.
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French
Etymology
From auge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oʒe/
Verb
auger
- to dig in order to get the shape of a trough
- 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.
present participle | augeant /o.ʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
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past participle | augé /o.ʒe/ | ||||||
infinitive | |||||||
simple | auger | ||||||
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
gerund1 | |||||||
simple | augeant /o.ʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | 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 | – | – | – | ||||
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 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
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
- (Castilian) IPA(key): /au.ˈxeɾ/
- (Latin America) IPA(key): /au.ˈxeɾ/
Verb
auger (first-person singular present aujo, first-person singular preterite augí, past participle augido)
Conjugation
- Rule: g becomes a j before a or o.
infinitive | auger | ||||||
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gerund | augiendo | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | augido | augida | |||||
plural | augidos | augidas | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | aujo | augestú augésvos |
auge | augemos | augéis | augen | |
imperfect | augía | augías | augía | augíamos | augíais | augían | |
preterite | augí | augiste | augió | augimos | augisteis | augieron | |
future | augeré | augerás | augerá | augeremos | augeréis | augerán | |
conditional | augería | augerías | augería | augeríamos | augeríais | augerían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | auja | aujas | auja | aujamos | aujáis | aujan | |
imperfect (ra) |
augiera | augieras | augiera | augiéramos | augierais | augieran | |
imperfect (se) |
augiese | augieses | augiese | augiésemos | augieseis | augiesen | |
future1 | augiere | augieres | augiere | augiéremos | augiereis | augieren | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | augetú augévos |
auja | aujamos | auged | aujan | ||
negative | no aujas | no auja | no aujamos | no aujáis | no aujan |
- 1 Mostly obsolete form, now mainly used in legal jargon.
Synonyms
- (enlarge): amplificar
- (exalt, praise): laudar, loar
Antonyms
- (enlarge): minuir, menguar