Modifying vs. Modification — What's the Difference?

To change in form or character; alter.

The act or process of modifying or the condition of being modified.

To make less extreme, severe, or strong

A change or a result produced by modifying

(Grammar) To qualify or limit the meaning of. For example, summer modifies day in the phrase a summer day.

A change undergone by a word that is borrowed from another language.

(Linguistics) To change (a vowel) by umlaut.

A phonological change undergone by a word or morpheme when it is used in a construction, as the change of will to 'll in they'll.

To be or become modified; change.

The form of existence belonging to a particular object, entity etc.; a mode of being.

Present participle of modify; Altering.

(linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in I'm)

The result of modifying something; a new or changed form.

The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment.

(biology) A change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.

(linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language

The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine.

Something which has been modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; as, the various modifications of light; the latest modification of the operating system crashes less frequently.

The alteration of the meaning of a word or phrase by another word or phrase; - usually a restriction of the scope of the word modified; as, in the phrase "a billion dollars is a relatively small sum to spend on cancer research" the modification of small by relatively is needed to make the sentence accurate, rather than ludicrous.

The act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)

Slightly modified copy; not an exact copy;

The grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase

An event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another;