different between multiply vs distend
multiply
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)
- (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.
- 1786', Fisher Ames, Lucius Junius Brutus
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To perform multiplication on (a number).
- (intransitive) To grow in number.
- (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
- (intransitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication.
- (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 . Carefully arranging the factors, therefore, to ensure that 2 multiplies 4 and 3 multiplies 5, we have
- Of all the possible combinations of factors above, only . Carefully arranging the factors, therefore, to ensure that 2 multiplies 4 and 3 multiplies 5, we have
- 1983, Graham Flegg, Numbers, 2002 Dover edition, ?ISBN, page 154 [1]:
Synonyms
- Synonym: manifold
Related terms
Translations
Noun
multiply (plural multiplies)
- (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.
- 1975, Byte (issues 1-8, page 14)
Etymology 2
multiple +? -ly.
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?l?t?-pl?, IPA(key): /?m?lt?pli/
Adverb
multiply (not comparable)
- In many or multiple ways.
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distend
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??st?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Verb
distend (third-person singular simple present distends, present participle distending, simple past and past participle distended)
- (intransitive) To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell
- 1975', Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 147]:
- I begin to hate the theater, the feeling wickedly distended by histrionics, all the old gestures, clutchings, tears, and applications.
- 1975', Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 147]:
- (transitive, reflexive, archaic) To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
- I begin to hate the theater, the feeling wickedly distended by histrionics, all my old gestures, clutchings, tears, and applications. These impure and frail matters are conteined within the angust concave of the Lunar Orb, above which with uninterrupted Series the things Celestial distend themselves.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
- (transitive) To cause to swell.
- (biology) To cause gravidity.
Derived terms
- distensible
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “distend”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Anagrams
- destin'd
French
Verb
distend
- third-person singular present indicative of distendre
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