modification vs death

death vs modification

modification and death both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
modification	Yes	No	No	No
death	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, death is a hyponym of modification; that is, death is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than modification:

modification: an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
death: the event of dying or departure from life

Other hyponyms of modification include acceleration, deceleration, retardation, slowing, avulsion, break, mutation, sublimation, surprise, birth, nascence, nascency, nativity, breakup, detachment, separation, vagary, fluctuation, variation, conversion, decease, expiry, decrease, drop-off, lessening, destabilization, increase, easing, moderation, relief, deformation, transition, shift, transformation, transmutation, scintillation, sparkling, twinkle, play, shimmer, transmutation, damage, harm, impairment, development, revolution, chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation, mutation, sex change, loss of consciousness.

modification (noun)	death (noun)
the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)	the act of killing
slightly modified copy; not an exact copy	the event of dying or departure from life
an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another	the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase	the absence of life or state of being dead
	a final state
	the time when something ends
	the time at which life ends; continuing until dead

Difference between modification and death

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