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magnify
English
Alternative forms
- magnifie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle French magnifier, from Latin magnific?re, from magnificus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ma?n?fa?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?mæ?n?fa?/
Verb
magnify (third-person singular simple present magnifies, present participle magnifying, simple past and past participle magnified)
- (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God). [from 14th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts X:
- For they herde them speake with tonges, and magnify God.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- For he who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declare as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best cov'nant of his fidelity [...].
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts X:
- (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc. [from 17th c.]
- (intransitive, slang, obsolete) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.
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Derived terms
- magnifier
- magnifying glass
- magnification
Related terms
- minify (opposite)
Translations
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- what magnifying glass is best
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widen
English
Etymology
From wide +? -en (verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wa?d?n/
- Rhymes: -a?d?n
Verb
widen (third-person singular simple present widens, present participle widening, simple past and past participle widened)
- (intransitive) To become wide or wider.
- (transitive) To make wide or wider.
- (transitive) To let out clothes to a larger size.
- (transitive) To broaden or extend in scope or range.
- (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.
- Antonym: narrow
- to widen a
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variable
Derived terms
- widenable
Translations
Anagrams
- Edwin, Wendi, dwine, indew, winde, wined
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- what widens blood vessels
- what widens your hips
- what widens a confidence interval
- what widens a parabola
- what widened pulse pressure
- what widens
- what widens hips
- what widens your blood vessels
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