transcription, транскрипция: [ mɒdɪfaɪ ]
( modifies, modifying, modified)
1.
If you modify something, you change it slightly, usually in order to improve it.
The club members did agree to modify their recruitment policy...
The plane was a modified version of the C-130.
VERB : V n , V-ed
• modi‧fi‧ca‧tion
(modifications)
Relatively minor modifications were required.
N-VAR
2.
A word or group of words that modifies another word describes or classifies something, or restricts the meaning of the word. ( TECHNICAL )
It is a rule of English that adjectives generally precede the noun they modify: we say ‘a good cry’, not ‘a cry good’.
VERB : V n