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amplify English

Meaning amplify meaning

What does amplify mean?
Definitions in simple English

amplify Verb

— To amplify something is to make more of it: larger, louder, or more in number. — if you amplify an image, you make it bigger. We can see the details of the bird more clearly if we amplify the photo. — If you amplify a sound, you make it louder. We will have to amplify your voice more, or the audience won't hear it. — If you amplify a description, you add more details and illustrations.

amplify

— verb (= magnify) increase in size, volume or significance Her terror was magnified in her mind — verb increase the volume of amplify sound — verb (= inflate) exaggerate or make bigger The charges were inflated — verb (= exaggerate) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth tended to romanticize and exaggerate this 'gracious Old South' imagery

Synonyms amplify synonyms

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magnify increase enlarge augment widen extend expand exaggerate dilate aggrandize strengthen heighten reinforce overstate hyperbolize hyperbolise grow elaborate broaden blow up wax step up scale up raise proliferate overdraw intensify inflate fortify expatiate escalate corroborate boost aggrandise accrue vouch verify validate underpin transistorize transistorise toughen thicken swell supplement substantiate spread out splay rise reenforce

Conjugation amplify conjugation

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amplify · verb

Examples amplify examples

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Do you wish to further amplify your complaint?
If I can amplify.
Don't amplify.
Amplify the laser to operating mode.
Epsilon 9 can amplify the signal?
Maybe he used something to amplify the sound.
Amplify the position of the Riga, please? -Sir.
Would you care to amplify that a little?
Amplify the ping machine.
A little unorthodox, to say the least, but interesting if you can amplify on it.
The resonances would reinforce each other and amplify.
I will amplify the image with my tricorder.
If I can attach this to Emerald's collar, it will amplify the signal and it will shatter his eardrums.
Your weapons will only amplify the time distortion.
We averaged three, five or ten of these in order to reduce the noise and amplify the signal.
Do you wish to further amplify your complaint? Complaint?
It was power which I could control, and I learned how to amplify my thoughts without hurting myself.
Amplify that statement, wpll you?
We have to put the sound of the transmitter onto radio waves amplify it, and then direct it toward the aliens! I know it will work!
If I might amplify.
So we've got Ethel on the tape, if we can amplify her loud enough.
Yeah, but that's a battery-powered tape recorder. Do you think you can amplify it loud enough?
But I want to amplify her heartbeat so I can compare her rhythm patterns.
I say, find this particular fear and build it. Amplify it.
Mr Cicci, could you amplify your answer a bit?
Could you repeat, amplify.
But it will amplify sounds he can just barely hear now. It will raise the level of sound in general.
Can you amplify the noise in the room without that tone?
Could you amplify the sound from the box with nobody in it?
Maybe you could revise or amplify your statement.
If we could somehow amplify and polarize that instability, we might be able to get the wormhole to reappear.
The drug's protein structure seems designed to amplify my people's xenophobic tendencies.
Apparently, once they repaired their communications array, they were able to use it to amplify the signal from their neural transponder.
This is the machine the strangers use to amplify their thoughts.
I can use that crude device to amplify my deadly signal.
Amplify the feedback pulse.
They're using a cyclic pulsar to amplify signals from the midas array, but the cycle only peaks every 32 days.

News and current affairs

The outcome of any public discussion can never be known with certainty, but chances are that it will amplify stories that imply risks of higher oil prices.
A more useful definition of cyber waris hostile action in cyberspace whose effects amplify or are equivalent to major physical violence.
The impact on the financial-services industry of these top-down factors will gradually amplify the importance of the bottom-up forces.
Open feedback mechanisms ensure a supply chain's ability to respond to a changing environment, but, in the case of financial supply chains, feedback mechanisms can amplify shocks until the whole system blows up.
From nuclear-tipped missiles down to trucks full of fertilizer or explosives worn as belts, we have used our technology to amplify greatly the dark parts of our nature as a violent-and not even a properly predatory-species.
Land use changes, say, can amplify the spread of infectious diseases by changing the mix of species or the ways that animals and humans interact.
But there is a hitch: the gas deals amplify a significant bilateral trade imbalance, with Russia supplying raw materials to China and importing Chinese manufactures.
When Somaliland's people vote at the end of September, they will not be deciding explicitly on secession, but their steady effort at state building does amplify their claims to independence.
Improved policies will amplify these opportunities, ensuring that economic gains will benefit hundreds of millions of people throughout Europe.
But, while the wealthy can use their money to amplify their views, back on the street, police wouldn't allow me to address the OWS protesters through a megaphone.
Add to that an increasingly polarized and quasi-tribal news media, which can amplify divisions in society, and the scope for collaborative transformation is extremely limited.
The aim of such standards must be to attenuate the impact of financial failure, not amplify it, as has occurred in the crisis.
And all of this would amplify rather than attenuate political polarization, placing other urgent policy priorities at even greater risk.
A sympathetic press would amplify their heart-rending stories of lost jobs and homes, making those counseling against intervention appear callous.
It would also help to amplify within China the universal and humanistic values for which Liu has spent so much of his life fighting.

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