different between amplify vs synonymia

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.

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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, from Ancient Greek

Noun

synonymia (plural synonymiae)

1. (rhetoric) The use of two or more synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term. A kind of repetition that adds force.
   • 2007, Sylvia Adamson, "Synonymia, or in other words", in Anderson, et al., Renaissance figures of speech, page 29

     At its simplest (sometimes called synonymia simplex), it takes the form of synonymous words arranged in doublets, […] .

Synonyms

• synonymy

Hyponyms

• parelcon

See also

• synonymia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Noun

synonymia

1. synonymy (quality of being synonymous)

Declension