different between amplify vs inflate

English

Etymology

From Middle English amplifiyen, from Old French amplifier, from Latin amplificare (“to enlarge”), from amplus (“large”) + facere (“to make”). See ample , equivalent to ample +? -ify.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æmp.l?.fa?/
• Hyphenation: am?pli?fy

Verb

amplify (third-person singular simple present amplifies, present participle amplifying, simple past and past participle amplified)

1. (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.

2. (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
3. (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.

4. (translation studies) To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• amplify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• amplify in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Latin ?nfl?tus, from the verb ?nfl?.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: ?n-fl?t', IPA^(key): /?n?fle?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

inflate (third-person singular simple present inflates, present participle inflating, simple past and past participle inflated)

1. (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
   • 1782, John Scott of Amwell, An Essay on Painting

     When passion's tumults in the bosom rise, / Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes.

2. (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).

3. (figuratively) To swell; to puff up.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     Inflate themselves with some insane delight.

4. (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.

Antonyms

• deflate

Derived terms

• inflated
• inflatingly

Related terms

• inflation

Translations

Latin

Participle

?nfl?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?nfl?tus

Adverb

?nfl?t? (comparative ?nfl?tius, superlative ?nfl?tissim?)

1. haughtily, proudly, pompously

References

• inflate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inflate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inflate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• inflate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette