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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to speak or act for the glory or honor (of someone or something)," from Old French magnefiier "glorify, magnify," from Latin magnificare "esteem greatly, extol, make much of," from magnificus "great, elevated, noble" (see magnificence ). Meaning ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially god). (from 14th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To make (something) larger or more important. (from 14th c.)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magnify \Mag"ni*fy\, v. i. To have the power of causing objects to appear larger than they really are; to increase the apparent dimensions of objects; as, some lenses magnify but little. To have effect; to be of importance or significance. [Cant & Obs.] ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES magnifying glass COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN times ▪ Everything Suzanna had made me feel was alive again, magnified a hundred times . EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Binoculars magnify far-off objects. ▪ Her eyes were ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind" [syn: amplify ] to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: overstate , exaggerate , overdraw , ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Magnify is the fourth studio album from Christian rock band Remedy Drive , and the last album to originally be released under the moniker of Remedy; later pressings of the album have altered to say Remedy Drive.
Usage examples of magnify.
Impatiently Barth plucked the magnifying glasses off his nose and pushed them into her hands.
Get Doc Bellarmine to do the autopsy on Johnson and tell him to go over that body with a magnifying glass.
He was by far the most powerful benison in Roland, a fact that was magnified because the carnival taking place was within his See.
A mile and a half from town, I came to a grove of tall cocoanut trees, with clean, branchless stems reaching straight up sixty or seventy feet and topped with a spray of green foliage sheltering clusters of cocoanuts--not more picturesque than a forest of collossal ragged parasols, with bunches of magnified grapes under them, would be.
Microscopic views of the crystalline structure of the main load-bearing members came to him, along with readings on the fields that artificially magnified the weak nuclear forces holding these huge macromolecules together.
Whenever it could be approximately told how much the movement had been magnified, this is stated.
Movement of bead of filament magnified about 25 times, and here reduced to onehalf of original scale.
Movement of the bead of filament magnified about 26 times, and here reduced to onehalf original scale.
Movement of the bead of the filament magnified about 58 times, and here reduced to onehalf original scale.
Movement of bead of filament magnified about 13 times, here reduced to onehalf the original scale.
During the morning the tied arch moved in an irregularly circular, strongly zigzag course, and to a greater distance than in the previous case, as was shown in a tracing, magnified 18 times.
Movement of bead of filament magnified 23 times, here reduced to onehalf of original scale.
Movement of bead of filament magnified 20 times, here reduced to onehalf of original scale.
Movement of end of leaf magnified about 12 times, here reduced to onehalf of original scale.
The tracing was not much magnified, and as the lines were plainly zigzag, the cotyledons must have moved a little laterally, that is, they must have circumnutated.