Activate vs Amplify - What's the difference?
activate | amplify |
To put into action, to put to work.
To turn on.
To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.
(rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
* Dryden
To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
As verbs the difference between activate and amplify
is that activate is to put into action, to put to work while amplify is to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.activate
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(activat)Synonyms
* actuateAntonyms
* deactivateAnagrams
* English ergative verbsamplify
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(en-verb)- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.