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multiply English

Meaning multiply meaning

What does multiply mean?
Definitions in simple English

multiply Verb

— If you multiply mathx/math by mathy/math, you add mathx/math to itself mathy/math times. Nine multiplied by eleven is ninety nine (math9\times 11 = 99/math). — If something multiplies, more and more of it exist. Problems have multiplied since the beginning of the week. — If living things multiply, the have babies, or they make more of themselves. The bugs seem to be multiplying.

multiply

— verb combine by multiplication multiply 10 by 15 — verb combine or increase by multiplication He managed to multiply his profits — verb (= breed) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) pandas rarely breed in captivity These bacteria reproduce — adverb in several ways; in a multiple manner they were multiply checked for errors — verb (= procreate) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant The Bible tells people to procreate

Synonyms multiply synonyms

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multiply English » English

increase breed reproduce propagate grow proliferate augment spread procreate manifold duplicate expand enlarge double add redouble make greater make bigger greaten gain enhance cross breed be common add to wax tell sully subjoin state square soil say report recount race propagation product produce offspring produce photocopy pass along opportunities negotiate narrate manifoldly make more logical multiply logic multiply let out laden

Topics multiply topics

What do people use multiply to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal

Animal life cycle
Person Life Birth

Fertile, infertile
States Quantity Count

Multiply numbers
States Quantity More

Increase

Conjugation multiply conjugation

How do you conjugate multiply?

multiply · verb

Examples multiply examples

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Simple sentences

The only way on Earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.
Phosphorus provides nourishment for cyanobacteria (blue algae) which multiply and release toxins.
To calculate the volume, multiply the length by the width by the depth.
Multiply three by five to get fifteen.
Be fruitful and multiply.
To compute the area of a circle, you must multiply the square of the circle's radius by the number pi.
If you're asked what is, say, thirty-three by eleven, you still don't know what they meant: multiply or divide?

Movie subtitles

All I have to do now is count the number of blades of grass in that little two-inch square and then multiply by the number of squares that would cover this whole field.
Aye. How dead Indians do multiply!
Divide our losses by 10 and multiply the enemy's by 20.
It was merely a method by which we could multiply our personalities.
The firepower in these Springfield rifles will multiply the strength of our garrison by five.
Of Course Not. All They Can Multiply Is Themselves.
If all these cactus plants were subject to the same mutation there could be an affinity, a union between plant and animal with the ability to destroy, and possess and multiply. at will.
Multiply?
Yes, but to multiply, first it has to live.
In the tsetse fly, the trypanosomes will be found. in the gut, mouth parts, and salivary glands. in all of which sites they multiply.
Propagate. You know. Multiply.
They multiply like rabbits!
Multiply!
Do I multiply or divide?
You can multiply that by mental arithmetic?
We know the siliceous rock does multiply.
There's only one thing I want to know from that, what makes it multiply?
But as long as there is water, it'll multiply again and again.
I now know that I have created a mental vampire, a fiend that needs to drain the intellect. to survive and multiply.
So long as it goes on, they will multiply, getting stronger and stronger.
Fine. But how do you multiply them?
How do you multiply it?
Therefore, citizens. if we theorized. that our fort was a pyramind. we would have to multiply 36 by 1. or 18 by 2. - Citizens-- - Bravo!
In ten hours a single typhoid germ can multiply into a million.
Right, but you multiply by.
Multiply.
Fool! You can multiply zeros too.
You can't multiply zeros. - Really? You can only add them.
In the morning of time, before the sun shone, Brahma, the divine primal force, allowed Maja, the world mother, to induce him to multiply himself.
Well, rabbits really know how to multiply.
Rabbits and rats are the animals that multiply the most.
Grow and multiply!
Multiply it.
Multiply by nine times.
Multiply that by thousands. The buffalo are getting scarce.

News and current affairs

Whatever the case, casting the fight against terrorism as a war has led American policymakers to multiply violent military operations that have absolutely no chance of winning hearts and minds in the Muslim world.
If economists did not habitually annualize quarterly GDP data and multiply quarterly GDP by four, Greece's debt-to-GDP ratio would be four times higher than it is now.
The archaeology of early modern and Neanderthal populations suggests that we are not the chosen people who received from God the light, the divine mandate to go forth, multiply, and eliminate their subhuman neighbors.
These differences are also likely to multiply and become more pronounced in an enlarged Europe.
He argued at that time, and rightly in my view, that short-term tax reductions and transfers would be partly saved, not spent, and that public debt would multiply and create a long-term shadow over the fiscal balance and the economy.
She worries about the early violations of human rights, particularly women's rights, which she fears will multiply.
Just think of the images of recent storms and floods in the Philippines and Vietnam that displaced and killed thousands, and multiply those horrors manifold.
This garrison economy is increasingly unsustainable, as Pakistan's poor multiply and the economy falters.
A meat industry could be developed in which Darfur's pastoralists would multiply their incomes by selling whole animals, meat products, processed goods (such as leather), dairy products, and more.
If they fail to generate new ideas and devise novel approaches, their problems will only multiply further.
The risks of failure multiply whenever the UN Security Council as a whole does not back the military part of the intervention.
But questions about the effectiveness and risks of QE have begun to multiply as well.
A remarkable observation supports this analogy: viruses behave like individual pieces of programs, using the cell as the machine needed to make them multiply and subsequently propagate (often by destroying the machine).
Now more than ever, proliferation threatens to heighten regional tensions and multiply devastation should war break out.
But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world's poorest people, they would only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.
Indeed, take the contraction that followed the near-collapse of the financial system in 2008 and multiply it by ten.
And one could multiply the subjects of possible tensions, from nuclear disarmament - too much for the French, too little for many others - to the best ways to deal with Iran, Russia, and China.
But government alone cannot solve them all, because it is, by design, slow-moving and not highly innovative - limitations that become increasingly constraining as problems grow and multiply.
We could multiply such examples endlessly.
Today, as protests mount and multiply, the government of every Arab state in the Middle East and North Africa probably believes that, if left to its own devices, it can contain internal dissent.
We aim to deepen our political dialogue, increase our trade, and multiply our people-to-people contacts with our neighbors in the form of sports, tourism, and cultural actvities.
Thus, supposedly benign accounting regulations actually encouraged banks to multiply their short-term lending, and to cut back on their long-term lending.

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