What does AMPLIFY mean?

Definitions for AMPLIFY
ˈæm pləˌfaɪam·pli·fy

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. magnify, amplifyverb

    increase in size, volume or significance

    "Her terror was magnified in her mind"

  2. overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplifyverb

    to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

    "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"

  3. inflate, blow up, expand, amplifyverb

    exaggerate or make bigger

    "The charges were inflated"

  4. amplifyverb

    increase the volume of

    "amplify sound"

Wiktionary

  1. amplifyverb

    To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.

  2. amplifyverb

    To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.

  3. amplifyverb

    To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.

  4. Etymology: From amplifyen, from amplifier, from amplificare, from amplus + facere. See ample.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Amplifyverb

    Etymology: amplifier, Fr.

    So when a great moneyed man hath divided his chests, and coins, and bags, he seemeth to himself richer than he was: and therefore a way to amplify any thing, is to break it, and to make anatomy of it in several parts, and to examine it according to the several circumstances. Francis Bacon, Essays.

    All concaves that proceed from more narrow to more broad, do amplify the sound at the coming out. Francis Bacon, Nat. History.

    For as the reputation of the Roman prelates grew up in these blind ages, so grew up in them withal, a desire of amplifying their power, that they might be as great in temporal forces, as mens opinions have formed them in spiritual matters. Walter Raleigh.

    Since I have plainly laid open the negligence and errours of every age that is past, I would not willingly seem to flatter the present, by amplifying the diligence and true judgment of those servitours that have laboured in this vineyard. John Davies, on Irel.

    Thy general is my lover; I have been
    The book of his good acts; whence men have read
    His fame unparallel’d, haply amplified. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    I feel age advancing, and my health is insufficient to increase and amplify these remarks, to confirm and improve these rules, and to illuminate the several pages. Isaac Watts.

  2. To Amplifyverb

    Frequently with the particle on.

    When you affect to amplify on the former branches of a discourse, you will often lay a necessity upon yourself of contracting the latter, and prevent yourself in the most important part of your design. Isaac Watts, Logick.

    I have sometimes been forced to amplify on others; but here where the subject is so fruitful, that the harvest overcomes the reaper, I am shortened by my chain. John Dryden, Fab. Ded.

    amplifies, not invents; and as there was really a people called Cyclopeans, so they might be men of great stature, or giants. Alexander Pope, Odyssey, notes.

ChatGPT

  1. amplify

    To amplify means to increase the size, volume, quantity, or intensity of something. It can refer to making a sound louder, boosting a signal in electronics, strengthening the impact or effect, or expanding on an idea or statement in communication.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Amplifyverb

    to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc

  2. Amplifyverb

    to enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of

  3. Amplifyverb

    to become larger

  4. Amplifyverb

    to speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon

  5. Etymology: [F. amplifier, L. amplificare. See Ample, -fy.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Amplify

    am′pli-fī, 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. [L. amplus, large, and fac-ĕre, to make.]

CrunchBase

  1. Amplify

    Amplify is an independent subsidiary of News Corporation that brings mobile assessments and instructional analytics to schools across America

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of AMPLIFY in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of AMPLIFY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of AMPLIFY in a Sentence

  1. Amesh Adalja:

    I think that there likely is a lot of pressure on vaccine developers to release information as quickly as possible because of the fact that we know that the only way back to any kind of normalcy is through a vaccine, there are I think a lot of incentives to try and amplify good news when most things that we care about in the pandemic are bad news.

  2. David Holtzman:

    The brain has its own immune response to the pathology that's involved in [ Alzheimer's ] disease progressing, when there are other things that cause inflammation that are in the body that can affect the brain, likely what happens is that can even amplify the process that's already going on.

  3. Tim Cook:

    I see AR as being profound, aR has the ability to amplify human performance instead of isolating humans. So I am a huge, huge believer in AR. We put a lot of energy on AR. Were moving very fast.

  4. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos:

    Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet, i want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change on this planet we all share.

  5. Jared Baeten:

    Those are all the kind of events that can be a setup for having a large spread, introduce someone who's infectious -- and maybe not even super infectious -- into a crowd of people in close quarters for extended duration of time -- like a funeral, like a sporting event, like a nursing home -- and that can amplify the spread.

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