Crossword clues for multiply
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Multiply \Mul"ti*ply\, v. i.
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To become greater in number; to become numerous.
When men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them.
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To increase in extent and influence; to spread.
The word of God grew and multiplied.
--Acts xii. 24. To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Multiply \Mul"ti*ply\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Multiplied; p. pr. & vb. n. Multiplying.] [F. multiplier, L. multiplicare, fr. multiplex manifold. See Multitude, Complex.]
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To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.
Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience.
--Ames. (Math.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication.
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To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy. [Obs.]
Multiplying gear (Mach.), gear for increasing speed.
Multiplying lens. (Opt.) See under Lens.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-12c., multeplier, "to cause to become many," from Old French multiplier, mouteplier (12c.) "increase, get bigger; flourish; breed; extend, enrich," from Latin multiplicare "to increase," from multiplex (genitive multiplicis) "having many folds, many times as great in number," from comb. form of multus (see multi-) + -plex "-fold," from PIE *plek- "to plait" (see ply (v.1.)). Mathematical sense is attested from late 14c. Related: Multiplied; multiplying.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context computer science English) An act or instance of multiplying. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something). 2 (context transitive arithmetic English) To perform multiplication on (a number). 3 (context intransitive English) To grow in number. 4 (context intransitive English) To breed or propagate. Etymology 2
adv. In many or multiple ways.
WordNet
adv. in several ways; in a multiple manner; "they were multiply checked for errors" [ant: singly]
v. combine by multiplication; "multiply 10 by 15" [ant: divide]
combine or increase by multiplication; "He managed to multiply his profits" [syn: manifold]
have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity" [syn: breed]
have offspring or young; "The deer in our neighborhood reproduce madly"; "The Catholic Church tells people to procreate, no matter what their economic situation may be" [syn: reproduce, procreate]
[also: multiplied]
Wikipedia
Multiply is an album by Jamie Lidell on Warp Records. Unusually for Warp, which for many years released mainly electronic music, the album has much in common with soul and funk music.
Multiply is the third single from Xzibit's album, Man vs. Machine. The chorus is rapped by Nate Dogg. In the music video it shows Xzibit riding on a car. An official remix featuring Busta Rhymes was released as a bonus track in the same album. The video contains cameo appearances by Busta Rhymes, Dr. Dre & WC.
Multiply is the debut album recorded by Canadian rock band Heavy Jack at Digital Sound Magic & Turtle Studios in British Columbia. It was recorded during most of 2007 and into 2008. The album artwork was designed by Duke Floss.
Multiply was a social networking service with an emphasis on allowing users to share media – such as photos, videos and blog entries – with their "real-world" network. The website was launched in March 2004 and was privately held with backing by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Point Judith Capital, Transcosmos, and private investors. Multiply had over 11 million registered users. The company was headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida but moved to Jakarta, Indonesia early in 2012 and recently announced intentions to switch to e-commerce, dropping the social networking aspect entirely. Quantcast estimates Multiply had 2.47 million monthly U.S. unique visitors at their peak on July 30, 2012.
On Multiply, a user's network was made up of their direct contacts, as well as others who are closely connected to them through their first-degree relationships. Additionally, users were encouraged to specify the nature of their relationship with one another, making it possible to share content with their entire network of closely related people, or subsets thereof including friends, family, professional contacts, and so on.
May 31, 2013 officially marked the closing of their operations whilst expressing the hope that the website might reorganize, retain Jakarta, Indonesia as headquarters, and reopen as a social networking service in the future.
"Multiply" is a song recorded by American rapper ASAP Rocky, which was made available for online streaming on October 3, 2014. Four days later, it was released as a digital single by RCA Records. The song features Juicy J and was produced by Curtis Heron. A music video for the track was co-directed by ASAP Rocky and Shomi Patwary. The single serves as a promotional single for Rocky's third studio album At. Long. Last. ASAP
Usage examples of "multiply".
In this manner did the crafty Fathom turn to account those ingratiating qualifications he inherited from nature, and maintain, with incredible assiduity and circumspection, an amorous correspondence with two domestic rivals, who watched the conduct of each other with the most indefatigable virulence of envious suspicion, until an accident happened, which had well-nigh overturned the bark of his policy, and induced him to alter the course, that he might not be shipwrecked on the rocks that began to multiply in the prosecution of his present voyage.
The popular monks, whose reputation was connected with the fame and success of the order, assiduously labored to multiply the number of their fellow-captives.
They my-loved and my-deared each other assiduously, but kept apart generally, whereas Sir Pitt, in the midst of his multiplied avocations, found daily time to see his sister-in-law.
The rapid growth of capitalistic enterprises attracted numerous workers, and the number of engineers was many times multiplied.
If a bacterial strain compatible with myelin toxin could be found, the transplanted genes would multiply along with the bacteria.
It was the deadly bacteriophage Doctor Alph had cultivated, multiplying with the incredible speed the scientist had spoken of, devouring the flesh of the Martians like flame devouring tinder!
The calls multiplied, and Blitz found his head swimming in a myriad of details and distractions.
I took it up, and having brought it near my eyes I was delighted to see that it multiplied objects.
To develop one of these diseases means that the excreta of somebody who has the disease or who has had it, has been taken into the mouth and swallowed, and the germs finding a favorable medium in the intestines have multiplied and produced the typical symptoms.
That is, they multiply the number of reported sightings by the fraction of sightings made by credible observers, times the number of those sightings that resist conventional explanation, and so on until they arrive at a total number of sightings that seem explicable only by extraterrestrial visitation.
And in every direction she could see the awareness of the Transcendence elaborating, multiplying, exponentiating, its vast intellect growing as she watched.
Son was only adopted by the Father, others wearily debate who precedes whom, and each, monster that he is, is drawn into his monstrous error, multiplying the hypostases of the divinity, believing that the Supreme Good is three different substances or even four.
Scots, after maintaining for ages the dignity of an independent kingdom, have multiplied, by an equal and voluntary union, the honors of the English name.
Instead of maintaining a crowd of tenants and followers, the produce of their estates was consumed in the private expenses which multiply the pleasures, and diminish the power, of the lord.
If the percentage of dioxide is required it may be calculated by multiplying the percentage of manganese by 1.