AMPLIFY (amplified)

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Irregular inflected form: amplified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does amplify mean? 

• AMPLIFY (verb)
  The verb AMPLIFY has 4 senses:

1. increase in size, volume or significance

2. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

3. exaggerate or make bigger

4. increase the volume of

  Familiarity information: AMPLIFY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMPLIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they amplify    ... he / she / it amplifies   
Past simple: amplified   
Past participle: amplified   
-ing form: amplifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Increase in size, volume or significance

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

amplify; magnify

Context example:

Her terror was magnified in her mind

Hypernyms (to "amplify" is one way to...):

enlarge (become larger or bigger)

Sentence frames:

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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

amplifier (electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

amplify; exaggerate; hyperbolise; hyperbolize; magnify; overdraw; overstate

Context example:

tended to romanticize and exaggerate this 'gracious Old South' imagery

Hypernyms (to "amplify" is one way to...):

misinform; mislead (give false or misleading information to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "amplify"):

overemphasise; overemphasize; overstress (place special or excessive emphasis on)

blow; bluster; boast; brag; gas; gasconade; shoot a line; swash; tout; vaunt (show off)

aggrandise; aggrandize; blow up; dramatise; dramatize; embellish; embroider; lard; pad (add details to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Exaggerate or make bigger

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

amplify; blow up; expand; inflate

Context example:

The charges were inflated

Hypernyms (to "amplify" is one way to...):

increase (make bigger or more)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "amplify"):

puff up (make larger or distend)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Increase the volume of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

amplify sound

Hypernyms (to "amplify" is one way to...):

compound; deepen; heighten; intensify (make more intense, stronger, or more marked)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

amplifier (electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it)

 Context examples 

A modification of the standard polymerase chain reaction that increases the ability to preferentially amplify minority alleles and somatic mutations in the presence of an excess of wild-type molecules.

(COLD-PCR, NCI Thesaurus)

Any DNA molecule capable of autonomous replication within a host cell and into which other DNA sequences can be inserted and thus amplified.

(Cloning Vector, NCI Thesaurus)

Variation of the polymerase chain reaction used to identify differentially expressed genes. mRNA from two different tissue samples is reverse transcribed, then amplified using short, intentionally nonspecific primers.

(Differential Display, NCI Thesaurus)

Genes may also be amplified in the laboratory for research purposes.

(Gene amplification, NCI Dictionary)

They differ by size, their placement on or inside the ear, and how much they amplify sound.

(Hearing Aids, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

Next, the crosslinks are broken, the proteins are removed and the purified DNA is amplified, denatured and labeled with a fluorescent tag.

(ChIP-On-Chip, NCI Thesaurus)

The genetic sequence for CDR3 is amplified using the polymerase chain reaction and specific primers.

(CDR3 Spectratyping, NCI Thesaurus)

The amplified DNA is subjected to nucleotide sequencing.

(Bisulfite Sequencing, NCI Thesaurus)

Breast carcinoma-amplified sequence 1 (584 aa, ~62 kDa) is encoded by the human BCAS1 gene.

(Breast Carcinoma-Amplified Sequence 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Breast carcinoma-amplified sequence 4 (211 aa, ~23 kDa) is encoded by the human BCAS4 gene.

(Breast Carcinoma-Amplified Sequence 4, NCI Thesaurus)