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modify

If you modify something, you change it, often only in small ways, and often because you want to use it in a different situation. Both penalties and rewards can be used to modify children's behaviour. It is also possible to modify the original by adding or removing parts. We found some new problems and modified the program accordingly. If a word, phrase, or clause modifies another, it is an optional word, phrase, or clause that gives more information about the other. The adjective "big" modifies the noun "bridge" in the expression "big bridge".

modify

make less severe or harsh or extreme please modify this letter to make it more polite he modified his views on same-gender marriage add a modifier to a constituent (= change, alter) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue

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And illogical, you will modify.
Mind you, I modify nothing concerning the various corruptions in the Church.
Captain, we will modify its engines in order to produce velocities far beyond the reach of your science.
Mr Phillips, Professor Stahlman has decided to modify the drilling rate.
Modify two or three things. but it's good.
We'll have to modify the computer program.
I will modify my views.
Fortunately, we also have self-consciousness which enables us to modify conscience.
I would appreciate if you'd modify your impression of her character!
Ok, that's fine. Let's modify the shot now.
We've had to modify a few of the parts, Doctor. but, uh, that shouldn't take long.
Oh, you can't modify perfection.
First we will modify your voice.
The nature of this petition is that David Okla Bertinneau pleads for Your Honor. to modify the instruction of his 1958 conviction. and to issue a writ of habeas corpus.
You might modify our bodies, but nothing in this world can change our souls.
Sir Richard, do you wish to modify your testimony?
Oh, you can't modify perfection. We are the best.
This petition is that David Okla Bertinneau pleads for Your Honour to modify his 1 958 conviction, and to issue a writ of habeas corpus.
And, Karen, maybe we can modify it and simplify it even a little more?
We don't modify them.
We could use the lens from the binoculars to modify the curvature of the reflector to give it a little more distance.
Can you modify the signals accounting for density, temperature and salinity.
It is impervious to all standard antibiotics to modify tetracycline as follows.
It would not be difficult to modify them to convert energy into radiation.
We'll modify it a bit, just to keep up appearances.
And we'll just slightly modify history in the year 1911.
It's down to us to modify and repair ourselves.
Time to find and modify favorable planets.
But they overlooked the fact that I might be clever enough to modify it.
I want to modify the controls, I want to divert the space time tunnel and send the Nimons back into the middle of nowhere.
This petition is that David Okla Bertinneau pleads for Your Honour to modify his 1958 conviction, and to issue a writ of habeas corpus.
No. We'll modify the sonic booster in the Tardis.
Perhaps it is we who should modify our approach.

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And to understand how something works is also to begin to see ways to modify and even control it.
At the same time, the country must modify its consumption model through greater reliance on hydroelectric, nuclear, and wind energy.
There is little that officials can do to monitor or modify the children's workloads on large farms or small family enterprises.
But if the JOBS Act does not succeed, we should not abandon the idea, but try to modify it.
The hope is that the data may help you to modify your behavior in the right direction.
In Khomeini's view, the jurist-ruler could modify religious laws, depending on his interpretation of the needs of the regime.
In the face of a stagnant economy and an integrated global economy, Japan is under increasing pressure to modify its regulatory framework and promote competition.
No one inside or outside can remove its anachronistic dynastic-communist regime, and no outsider can hope to modify quickly the policy behavior of its fossilized military, party, and administrative bureaucrats.
My own field, chemistry, plays a primordial role in our ability to act upon natural phenomena, to modify them, and to invent new expressions of them.
It is one thing to modify the behavior of a state beyond its borders, but quite another to alter what takes place within another country's territory.
As happens almost everywhere, the transition became a moment to scrutinize the outgoing government's policies, even if the new administration does not intend to modify those policies in the short term.
Meanwhile, the manufacturers, Linden Labs, have said they will modify the game to prevent virtual children from having sex.
Such a reformed right's opposition to Bachelet will probably focus on her efforts to modify the country's neo-liberal model as she tackles the country's persistent knots of poverty and inequality.
If, for example, one extends the time period over which member states are required to conform to the rules, there is less need to modify the rules themselves.
Some try to deal with basic human proclivities, and to modify behavior to make people better.
The majority Shia and their Kurdish allies rejected Bush's plea to Iraqi politicians to modify the new draft constitution to attract disgruntled Sunni Arabs.
Some are even willing to undergo preventive measures or modify their behavior to decrease or control this risk.
However, after two years of work, I discovered that I could modify certain types of polymers to release molecules of virtually any size over a 100-day period.
The Republican proposal is to modify the bankruptcy code, creating special provisions for large, complex financial institutions.
Any eurozone country can modify its tax rules to stimulate business investment, home building, and consumer spending without increasing its fiscal deficit, and without requiring permission from the European Commission.
But, given the likelihood that Democrats will retain their majorities in the US Congress, even McCain would need to modify the agreement with Colombia in order to get it passed.
The intervening crisis only made the Kremlin modify and sharpen its plan.

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