different between multiply vs evolve

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

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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

Borrowed from Latin ?volv? (“unroll, unfold”), from ?- (“out of”) (short form of ex) + volv? (“roll”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??v?lv/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v?lv/
• Hyphenation: e?volve

Verb

evolve (third-person singular simple present evolves, present participle evolving, simple past and past participle evolved)

1. To move in regular procession through a system.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     The animal soul sooner expands and evolves it self to its full orb and extent than the humane Soul

   • 1840, William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences

     The principles which art involves, science alone evolves.

   • 1870, John Shairp, Culture and Religion

     Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.

2. (intransitive) To change; transform.

3. To come into being; develop.
   • 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime

     You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
4. (biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, p. 502:

     There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

5. (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).

6. (transitive) To cause something to change or transform.

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Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lve

Verb

evolve

1. third-person singular present indicative of evolvere

Latin

Etymology

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??u?ol.u?e/, [e??u????u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?vol.ve/, [??v?lv?]

Verb

?volve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?volv?

Portuguese

Verb

evolve

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of evolver
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of evolver