verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
enhance sb’s reputation (=make it better)
▪ The performance enhanced his reputation as one of our most promising young actors.
enhance...prestige
▪ The king wanted to enhance his prestige through war.
improve/enhance the appearance of sth/sb
▪ Fresh air improves the appearance of the skin.
improve/enhance the flavour
▪ You can enhance the flavour by adding some cream.
improve/enhance the quality
▪ The measures will improve the quality of the water in the river.
increase/improve/enhance sb’s understanding
▪ The classes really helped to increase our understanding of the subject.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ The company will also enhance its Nomadic Computing Environment and develop multimedia applications for the SPARCbook.
▪ In addition, cable telephone technology might also enhance local infrastructure in some countries.
▪ Buses could more effectively operate them when integrated with the rest of the bus network, which would also enhance its profitability.
▪ Music also enhances your ability to think and solve problems.
▪ They may also enhance endorphin release.
▪ The use of pantomime also enhances the sentimental force of the play.
▪ It may also enhance our understanding of contemporary legal institutions and practices.
▪ It also enhanced the national rivalries that would eventually touch off the First World War.
further
▪ We've further enhanced speed by adding 32K of CompuAdd engineered cache memory.
▪ The Secretary General is requested to make a study on how participation of NGOs can be further enhanced.
▪ Any biological data that are available must therefore further enhance our understanding.
▪ The sanctuary was further enhanced by a mysterious and delightful flower-like odor which proceeded from the coffin.
▪ If Cadbury buys Orangina, as appears likely, its position will be further enhanced.
▪ We will further enhance its role as an instrument for the integration of these States in resolving security problems.
▪ The market is further enhanced by live performers who act out the varied timeless arts.
▪ The pleasure of this story was further enhanced by an incident that took place a few weeks later.
greatly
▪ The tune is in the key of E and the whole package is greatly enhanced by Cliff's innovative guitar playing.
▪ This in itself greatly enhances their knowledge and understanding.
▪ Colour is another important point to consider with fine hair, because it can greatly enhance its appearance.
▪ Informal as it was, this feedback greatly enhanced the managers' ability to learn from experience.
▪ This greatly enhances their life when using standard chargers.
▪ Salads with mixed greens and top quality olive oil or walnut oil can also be greatly enhanced by confit.
▪ With a little imagination the quality and interest value of videos can be enhanced greatly.
only
▪ This attention to detail only enhances the beauty and warmth of the voice itself, the ideal instrument for the part.
▪ Now the grand structure can only enhance property values.
▪ Glitz, glamour and gloss can not replace substance, they can only enhance it.
▪ The follow-up only enhances an already compelling program.
▪ But medical advance not only enhances clinical capability, it carries with it profound ethical, legal, social and economic implications.
▪ Such stunts, so typical of Ellet, not only enhanced his own reputation but also focused public attention on his project.
▪ And if the Debut looks stylish too, it can only enhance the look of your kitchen.
▪ However, it was once again observed that risk only enhances recognition performance in certain situations.
significantly
▪ Over the years they have significantly enhanced the quality of the education and the facilities available to our students.
▪ Unix International says Application Linking capabilities will significantly enhance the attractiveness of Unix-based applications in general-use environments.
■ NOUN
ability
▪ Such a mechanism could enhance our national ability to compete with other world class research communities.
▪ Informal as it was, this feedback greatly enhanced the managers' ability to learn from experience.
▪ Finally, appraisal procedures must be established which monitor and enhance the individual's ability to work to maximum effectiveness.
▪ This model was an F7 that had been modified to give it greater lifting power and enhanced load-carrying ability.
▪ Indeed, the use of electronic documentation systems should enhance a organisation's ability to maintain full and accurate records.
▪ Music also enhances your ability to think and solve problems.
▪ Education may enhance the ability to produce justifications, rather than eliminate racism toutcourt.
▪ Such capacity is expected to greatly enhance the ability of researchers to perform complex analyses using remote resources.
activity
▪ This apparent role of the cholinergic system in enhancing synaptic activity seems to be mediated by the phosphoinositide system.
▪ They further suggest that we are presently living in a time of enhanced cratering activity.
▪ After the programme, those enrolled showed enhanced brain activity while reading.
▪ Sponsorship and additional funding will be sought, to enhance company activities.
appearance
▪ Colour is another important point to consider with fine hair, because it can greatly enhance its appearance.
▪ Clever use of make-up can greatly enhance your appearance and leading make-up artist Teresa Fairminer will give you expert advice.
▪ Women have an even broader latitude for enhancing their appearance.
capability
▪ But medical advance not only enhances clinical capability, it carries with it profound ethical, legal, social and economic implications.
▪ Scanning technology would enhance their capability even further, allowing transfer of physical pictures.
chance
▪ To enhance our chances of making such discoveries many of us use maps of one kind or another.
▪ By restricting yourself to seven or less you will enhance your chances of making the report effective.
▪ What particular objectives do you need to achieve to add value to projects and enhance your own chances for progression?
development
▪ Performance management: providing the means to enhance competency and stimulate development in order to achieve organisational objectives. 4.
effect
▪ Sometimes natural oils are used to enhance the overall effect on the nervous and muscular system.
▪ Ones that enhance the serotonin effects are often helpful in chronic pain disorders.
▪ Some of the blue will show through but this enhances the effect.
▪ But a small extra quantity of water could enhance the greenhouse effect to the point where present conditions would result.
▪ Trail more bandages over the sarcophagus to enhance the effect.
effectiveness
▪ Our aim is to ensure that we become more efficient and enhance the effectiveness of our sharp end research.
▪ Drugs that enhance the effectiveness of norepinephrine and serotonin are commonly used as antidepressants.
▪ He may have wanted to enhance the League's effectiveness.
▪ Careful timing and choice of chemical can greatly enhance the effectiveness of a natural enemy.
environment
▪ Rentokil Tropical Plants add prestige and enhance the work environment.
▪ The skilled teacher who welcomes and values the child's contribution can do much to enhance the learning environment.
▪ The company will also enhance its Nomadic Computing Environment and develop multimedia applications for the SPARCbook.
▪ All of this stresses the need to ensure that future development must enhance rather than damage the environment.
▪ An equally important aim is to ensure that the planning system continues to protect and enhance the environment.
▪ Tailor-made to your personal specifications to enhance every environment - from private study to entire office suite.
▪ To protect and enhance the environment.
▪ Its mandate would include technology transfers and the encouragement of investment in projects which would enhance or safeguard the environment.
experience
▪ Of course, there are times when a greater sense of control does more than simply enhance the driving experience.
▪ But in disaster might come opportunity to enhance the Yosemite experience for the millions of annual visitors, says Griffin.
▪ Setting the Scene A calm, comfortable setting will enhance the experience of aromatherapy massage.
▪ Performance artist Mat Bevel enhances the intimate experience with his sculptural creations and interpretive lighting.
▪ They enhance the Web experience by letting you interact better with your virtual surroundings.
▪ We are always looking for ways to add convenience and enhance the banking experience for our customers.
image
▪ However, good practices established by the Commissioner can only help to enhance her image within the trade union movement.
▪ Such a move could enhance the UMass image in academia much as its basketball team has done in the sports arena.
▪ Pizazz Plus is a software package with screen capture and file conversion utilities that will allow you to enhance your printed images.
▪ Woods, meanwhile, used some of the donated funds to enhance his image among national colleagues.
▪ The handling of the threshold applications has done little to enhance the image of teaching.
▪ But one small group enhanced those images electronically, studied them avidly, and painstakingly identified each of the perpetrators.
▪ Attractively presented product information is also a good public relations vehicle, enhancing the image of the store in a general sense.
▪ Retouching a means of altering artwork or colour separations to correct faults or enhance the image.
life
▪ Generally they must save or enhance lives and offer an advance on current therapy.
▪ We are grateful for all these contributions which have substantially enhanced the quality of life of the residents at Sussexdown.
▪ Old buildings and streets, well cared for and adapted to today's needs, vastly enhance the quality of life.
▪ This greatly enhances their life when using standard chargers.
▪ With adequate resourcing and well designed support systems, relocation can enhance lives.
▪ Food is there to keep you healthy and to enhance your enjoyment of life.
▪ We believe that the funds generated by a National Lottery should be used to enhance the life of our nation.
▪ First, there are services to enhance the quality of life of children living at home with their families.
opportunity
▪ In all its acquisitions, Guinness has sought business opportunities that have enhanced and strengthened its core activities.
▪ But in disaster might come opportunity to enhance the Yosemite experience for the millions of annual visitors, says Griffin.
▪ The opportunity to enhance income through night visits may soften less agreeable effects of practice with the contract.
▪ The opportunity has been enhanced by recent farm reforms.
▪ There are many opportunities to learn or enhance computing skills.
▪ The education authority is of course responsible for promoting equality of opportunity and ensuring that its equal opportunities policies are enhanced through Compact.
▪ Graduates are active both in creating innovative opportunities to enhance further agricultural efficiency and in applying scientific findings to production practice.
▪ There would also be an opportunity to enhance the Square.
performance
▪ But how can we best explain the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in cycling?
▪ Raducan's positive testing evidently came as a result of having taken a cold medicine, not a performance-enhancing stimulant.
▪ Appraisal is thus a process of negotiating individual targets in order to improve personal performance and so enhance the quality of educational provision.
▪ Query performance is enhanced by support of query input-output parallelism.
▪ One such area concerns the relationship between the development of sports medicine and the development and use of performance-enhancing drugs.
▪ The use of performance-enhancing substances within the sporting context is, then, a very longstanding phenomenon.
position
▪ With the conference at last on the calendar, the various countries began preparatory activities to enhance their bargaining positions.
▪ Economically, militarily and culturally, Washington rules the planet, and it seeks to enhance that position in the new century.
▪ The princes needed to support the dominant imperial candidate to maintain and enhance their positions.
▪ The store manager appeared to possess a certain charisma which enhanced his position as a manager of others.
▪ The Armagnacs thus lost the foundations of a potential power-base in Provence, but had greatly enhanced their position in the south-west.
power
▪ Critics of the democratizing vision of the corporation contended that specialized technical knowledge would substantially enhance the power of management.
▪ The population trend, observers said, enhances the power of states that are becoming more Republican.
▪ And we want to enhance their democratic power too.
▪ As pressure on prices has increased, pharmacies have sought to enhance their buying power and reduce overhead expenses by growing larger.
▪ In many of them assertive political leaders are trying to enhance their power.
▪ But the great monarchs of the sixteenth century knew very well how to use that adulation to enhance their power.
▪ The resident intellectual speaks an arcane language designed to enhance his own power.
▪ They fear that ministers intend to downgrade their economic role and enhance the powers of local enterprise companies.
prestige
▪ The victory at Sluys enhanced Edward's military prestige, but he was unable to follow it up.
▪ Law professor Derek Bell has even argued that black intellectuals disavow militants in order to enhance their prestige with whites.
▪ The sums that will pass through them ought surely to enhance their prestige, and at a symbolic time.
product
▪ In this way we can enhance our gross national product for the benefit of all.
▪ Most are employed simply to enhance product appeal: colour, smell, texture or flavour.
▪ This would enhance efficiency and slow product proliferation.
quality
▪ It is these processes which provide the principles for staff management and enhance the quality of working relationships within the organisation.
▪ The palace enhances this quality through its long flat courtyard, which leads us directly to the rising horns.
▪ He has some electronic equipment originally intended for the language laboratory, which enhances the sound quality.
▪ Reengineering is the systematic work-redesign process that helps organizations make similar savings in time and money, while enhancing quality.
▪ Over the years they have significantly enhanced the quality of the education and the facilities available to our students.
▪ Appraisal is thus a process of negotiating individual targets in order to improve personal performance and so enhance the quality of educational provision.
▪ Pupils are given the opportunity to use technology in a creative way and enhance the quality of their own learning.
▪ We are grateful for all these contributions which have substantially enhanced the quality of life of the residents at Sussexdown.
relationship
▪ But all couples can enhance their own relationships, making their marriages so solid that infidelity is unlikely to occur.
▪ The family dynamics of the characters are subtly enhanced by the real-life relationship of the actors.
▪ This level of communication can not do much to enhance a relationship because it is too noncommittal.
▪ These children not only feel nurtured through play; they also learn social skills that will enhance their relationships with peers.
▪ Through play, counselors enhance their relationship with the student and provide another opportunity for children to express themselves.
reputation
▪ A well handled complaint can enhance the supplier's reputation.
▪ The excuse that enhances rather than harms reputation.
▪ It certainly helped to enhance the reputation of our province at this level.
▪ Such stunts, so typical of Ellet, not only enhanced his own reputation but also focused public attention on his project.
▪ Zahedi enhanced this reputation and London society had a taste of the party giving that was to hit Washington ten years later.
▪ When you help colleagues to produce more, you enhance your own reputation.
▪ It is an uncontrolled shot and one which will definitely not enhance your reputation in the clubhouse!
▪ Throughout most of those countries the universal view is that Britain should do more to enhance its reputation through the fund.
role
▪ All of them continue to enhance the role of the church musician by their devotion and perseverance.
▪ We will further enhance its role as an instrument for the integration of these States in resolving security problems.
▪ Even so, the emphasis was on enhancing the federal role in urban affairs.
security
▪ Investment in the military by a state enhances its security only at the expense of its neighbours.
▪ A top priority: enhanced security.
▪ Whether any intelligence does much good or actually enhances a country's security is doubtful.
▪ Does it enhance or threaten our security or is it of no consequence to us?
▪ If it enhances our security we feel things like joy and peace.
▪ At that meeting both Governments reaffirmed their determination to work together to enhance security co-operation in every way possible.
service
▪ All resources would be pooled which would greatly enhance the services which could be offered to members of the new society.
▪ Verio also offers selected enhanced services such as Web hosting, electronic commerce and virtual private networks.
▪ Five regionally based personnel manager posts were created to enhance the personnel service offered to the retail division.
▪ But now, with customers expecting more, creating a seamless roaming environment and providing enhanced services will be the key.
▪ Approximately 53 % of total revenues were attributable to Web hosting and other enhanced services.
▪ Verio will also provide customers with a comprehensive range of productivity-enhancing managed services needed to run their online business effectively.
skill
▪ Opinions are sought at all levels and team-work training enhances management skills and customer service.
▪ An ecology of machines, on the other hand, enhances the limited skills of dumb machines.
▪ Most of all, by writing poetry and seeking to enhance his skills at it.
▪ This model was intended to enhance the practical skills and productivity of predominantly rural populations.
▪ There are many opportunities to learn or enhance computing skills.
▪ It was a kitchen to challenge rather than enhance the skills of any cook ambitious beyond the boiling of eggs.
▪ This allows individuals to enhance either their core skills, or their occupational specialisms.
status
▪ All seek to enhance their status at the cost of their rivals.
▪ Many people struggle for promotion in order to enhance their status within organisations.
▪ The workers' rights we believe in are those which enhance individuals' status and opportunities.
▪ The move from students to customers may appear to enhance their status within the system.
use
▪ It is generally assumed that the use of and will enhance plural reference in this example.
▪ The use of pantomime also enhances the sentimental force of the play.
▪ But how can we best explain the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in cycling?
▪ This low sensitivity rate has encouraged the use of instruments to enhance cell exfoliation.
▪ How successful has that policy been in terms of controlling the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport?
▪ One such area concerns the relationship between the development of sports medicine and the development and use of performance-enhancing drugs.
▪ He said: We have solid information that the use of drugs to enhance performance is really an epidemic.
▪ Should the governing bodies of sport be considering alternative approaches to the problems associated with the use of performance-enhancing drugs?
value
▪ An introduction explaining the nature and scope of the indexing language will enhance its value. 6.
▪ Now the grand structure can only enhance property values.
▪ Throughout the year, the Group continued to invest in maintaining and enhancing the value of its tree existing core brands.
▪ This would enhance the value of the property.
▪ As more and more information is gathered and the idea is further enhanced, its value to the organization becomes more apparent.
▪ Such provisions would go a considerable way toward protecting caretakers and thereby enhancing the value of caretaking in our society.
▪ Some additional topics, a degree of reorganisation and a tighter mode of exposition enhance the value of this excellent book.
▪ If you are enhancing customer value, then you will see it.
way
▪ They argue for ways to enhance health care that the Government can barely touch.
▪ Even with the occasional gaffe, marketers say placing products in movies is an increasingly important way to enhance exposure.
▪ He mentioned the need to bring out the practical application of subjects, in ways which would enhance rather than displace theoretical understanding.
▪ Surely this is not the way to protect and enhance communities.
▪ That's the promise of Contrasts High and Low lighting kits - the easy way to enhance your natural hair colour.
▪ Their dedication to the cause was in no way diminished by their exile, and in many ways was enhanced by it.
▪ The brunette was strikingly attractive in a way that was dramatically enhanced by make-up and clothes.
▪ In truth, the most impressive thing about this performance car is the way it enhances the performance of its driver.
ways
▪ They argue for ways to enhance health care that the Government can barely touch.
▪ He mentioned the need to bring out the practical application of subjects, in ways which would enhance rather than displace theoretical understanding.
▪ Their dedication to the cause was in no way diminished by their exile, and in many ways was enhanced by it.
▪ In addition, some prey behave in ways that enhance their conspicuousness once they have been spotted.
▪ Through the ages women have explored various ways of enhancing their bosoms.
■ VERB
design
▪ It has made an environment assessment, and its proposals are designed to enhance the environmental interest of the area.
▪ The ethnological work construct is designed to enhance the utility of the mode of production notion.
▪ The Act is designed to conserve and enhance the land and prevent undesirable uses or developments.
▪ The resident intellectual speaks an arcane language designed to enhance his own power.
▪ The resource is designed to enhance children's creative and thinking skills.
help
▪ They certainly help to enhance a perspective that sees Faustus as a pawn between two more powerful forces.
▪ Soundwise, Acclaim brought in a big name to help enhance the game.
▪ However, good practices established by the Commissioner can only help to enhance her image within the trade union movement.
▪ The chancellor, meanwhile, directed unmatched fund-raising and helped enhance the graduate studies' program.
▪ It certainly helped to enhance the reputation of our province at this level.
▪ President Peter Quinn today welcomed the sponsorship package and expressed the hope that it will help to enhance the leagues.
▪ And if your car is fitted with a catalytic converter, Shell Advanced will help enhance the catalyst's performance.
▪ It fast became a glorious gathering place for the artistic intelligentsia of the day, who helped to enhance Biddesden further.
protect
▪ An equally important aim is to ensure that the planning system continues to protect and enhance the environment.
▪ Surely this is not the way to protect and enhance communities.
▪ To protect and enhance the environment.
▪ Such provisions would go a considerable way toward protecting caretakers and thereby enhancing the value of caretaking in our society.
▪ Magic can protect your army as well as enhance it.
seek
▪ At the next election, he will seek to enhance the so-called sovereignty of Parliament.
▪ As pressure on prices has increased, pharmacies have sought to enhance their buying power and reduce overhead expenses by growing larger.
▪ All seek to enhance their status at the cost of their rivals.
▪ Economically, militarily and culturally, Washington rules the planet, and it seeks to enhance that position in the new century.
▪ Sponsorship and additional funding will be sought, to enhance company activities.
▪ Most of all, by writing poetry and seeking to enhance his skills at it.
▪ These seek to enhance investor protection and promote the integrity of the securities, futures and options markets.
serve
▪ Prospects of even greater longevity in future among the already long-lived have served to enhance concern still further.
▪ Harmaline only serves to enhance this behavior { 28 }.
▪ Within this self are various drives and motivations, the most important of which serve to maintain and enhance this image.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Low lighting and soft music enhanced the atmosphere in the room.
▪ We're using technology to enhance our levels of service.
▪ You can enhance the flavour of most dishes with the careful use of herbs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All of them continue to enhance the role of the church musician by their devotion and perseverance.
▪ But medical advance not only enhances clinical capability, it carries with it profound ethical, legal, social and economic implications.
▪ But what specific actions can we take to enhance our satisfaction while at the same time reassuring our new acquaintances?
▪ Harmaline only serves to enhance this behavior { 28 }.
▪ He has some electronic equipment originally intended for the language laboratory, which enhances the sound quality.
▪ This image can then be enhanced and electronically analyzed.
▪ To some extent it is pOssible for parents to enhance certain aspects Of infant intelligence.
▪ When water is running it enhances the village aspect and in spring flotillas of ducklings can be seen on it.