Amplify
['æmplɪfaɪ]
Definition
(v. t.) To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
(v. t.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
(v. i.) To become larger.
(v. i.) To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Enlarge, extend, augment, magnify, dilate, expand, develop.[2]. Make copious or diffuse.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Enrich, enlarge, increase, augment, multiply, dilate, develop, swell,expatiate, expand, discuss, unfold, extend
ANT:Retrench, amputate, curtail, condense, abbreviate, epitomize, gath, er,collect, sum
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Definition
v.t. to make more copious in expression: to add to.—n. Amplificā′tion enlargement.—adj. Amplificā′tory.—n. Am′plifier one who amplifies: a lens which enlarges the field of vision.
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Examples
- Even if this country were comfortably well-off, healthy, prosperous, and educated, men would go on inventing and creating opportunities to amplify the possibilities of life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But Madame was before me; she had stepped out suddenly; she seemed to magnify her proportions and amplify her drapery; she eclipsed me; I was hid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He afterwards amplified this title by calling his book _A Century of Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as at present I call to mind to have tried and perfected_, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Only by a pupil's own observations, reflections, framing and testing of suggestions can what he already knows be amplified and rectified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A telephone receiver whereby the vibrations of the diaphragm are considerably amplified. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A person talking into the carbon transmitter in New York had his voice so amplified that he could be heard one thousand feet away in an open field at Menlo Park. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society papers of the same week. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Suspended above, but in contact with the surface of the blank, is a recording needle or stylus, attached to a diaphragm which, in turn, is connected to an amplifying horn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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