different between multiply vs dilate

English

Etymology 1

From Old French multiplier, from Latin multiplic?, from multi (“many”) + plic? (“I fold”).

The noun presumably derives from the verb.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?l?t?-pl?, IPA^(key): /?m?lt?pla?/

Verb

multiply (third-person singular simple present multiplies, present participle multiplying, simple past and past participle multiplied)

1. (transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
   • 1786', Fisher Ames, Lucius Junius Brutus

     The motives to refuse obedience to government are many and strong ; impunity will multiply and enforce them

   • 1843, Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London

     It would indeed be easy to multiply modern authorities respecting locustal food; one more authority shall suffice, from which it will appear that the Arabs make a sort of locust bread.

2. (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To perform multiplication on (a number).

3. (intransitive) To grow in number.
4. (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
5. (intransitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication.

6. (transitive, rare) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
   • 1983, Graham Flegg, Numbers, 2002 Dover edition, ?ISBN, page 154 [1]:

     This follows a similar process, counters having to be removed and replaced at each stage of the remaining part of the calculation except the final one, where 2 multiplies 3 to give 6.

   • 1993, Edward T. Dowling, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Mathematical Methods for Business and Economics, ?ISBN, page 14 [2]:

     Of all the possible combinations of factors above, only ${\displaystyle (2\cdot 4)+(3\cdot 5)=23}$. Carefully arranging the factors, therefore, to ensure that 2 multiplies 4 and 3 multiplies 5, we have

     ${\displaystyle 6x^{2}+23x+20=(2x+5)(3x+4)}$

Synonyms

• Synonym: manifold

Related terms

Translations

Noun

multiply (plural multiplies)

1. (computer science) An act or instance of multiplying.
   • 1975, Byte (issues 1-8, page 14)

     The extended instruction set may double the speed again if a lot of multiplies and divides are done.

Etymology 2

multiple +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?l?t?-pl?, IPA^(key): /?m?lt?pli/

Adverb

multiply (not comparable)

1. In many or multiple ways.

English

Etymology

From Middle English dilaten, from Old French dilater, from Latin d?l?t? (“I spread out”), from di- (variant of dis-) + l?tus (“wide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da??le?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

dilate (third-person singular simple present dilates, present participle dilating, simple past and past participle dilated)

1. (transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.

2. (intransitive) To become wider or larger; to expand.

   Antonym: contract

3. (transitive, intransitive) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".
   • 1810, George Crabbe, The Borough

     But still they on their ancient joys dilate.

4. (medicine, transitive, intransitive) To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina).
   • 1896, The Chicago Medical Recorder, page 62:

     An experimenter in New York has recently advocated what he is pleased to call temporary forcible dilatation of the trachea in the treatment of membranous croup, his idea being to introduce into the trachea a dilator and to forcibly dilate, every few hours if need be, and he reports favorable results.

   • 1911, Abraham Leo Wolbarst, Gonorrhea in the Male: A Practical Guide to Its Treatment, page 148:

     In very tight and obstinate stricture I sometimes dilate every day, but as soon as it has been stretched up to 23 or 24, I dilate every other day, or at greater intervals, keeping the instrument in place several minutes.

   • 2010, Kehinde Adeola Ayeni, Feasts of Phantoms, Fisher King Press (?ISBN), page 148:

     He gave her some of the dilators he used to dilate her vagina shortly after the surgery and encouraged her to do it frequently.

   • 2012, Wolf Eicher, Götz Kockott, Sexology, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN)

     It is important to realize that a number of these women do not want to have their vaginismus treated but only to achieve pregnancy. […] The use of hard plastic rods with increasing diameters, a sort of pseudopenis, can be useful, provided it is explained to the woman that these rods are not used to dilate her vagina but are a means of training the relaxation of her pelvic muscles and of getting these muscles under control.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• dilute

Anagrams

• atelid, de-tail, detail, dietal, laited, tailed

French

Verb

dilate

1. inflection of dilater:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• déliât, détail, ladite

Latin

Participle

d?l?te

1. vocative masculine singular of d?l?tus

Portuguese

Verb

dilate

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of dilatar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of dilatar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of dilatar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of dilatar

Spanish

Verb

dilate

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dilatar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dilatar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dilatar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of dilatar.