Amplify vs Clarify - What's the difference?
amplify | clarify |
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.
To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or syrup.
* (rfdate) Ure:
To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
* (rfdate) South:
(ergative) To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
* Leave the wine for 24 hours and it will clarify .
(ergative) To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
(obsolete) To glorify.
As verbs the difference between amplify and clarify
is that amplify is to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc while clarify is to make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or syrup.amplify
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Verb
(en-verb)- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
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* *clarify
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en-verb)- Boiled and clarified .
- To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will.
