Affluent vs Amplify - What's the difference?
affluent | amplify |
(rft-sense) Somebody who is wealthy.
* 1994 , Philip D. Cooper, Health care marketing: a foundation for managed quality (page 183)
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
Abundant; copious; plenteous.
* H. Reed
(label) Abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy.
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(label) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
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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 a noun affluent
is somebody who is wealthy.As an adjective affluent
is abundant; copious; plenteous.As a verb amplify is
to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.affluent
English
Noun
(en noun)- The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.
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* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- languageaffluent in expression
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* affluence * affluentlyReferences
amplify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
