Amplify vs Enrich - What's the difference?
amplify | enrich |
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 (someone) rich or richer.
To adorn, ornate more richly.
To improve the state of something.
To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
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, author=Nancy Langston
, title=The Fraught History of a Watery World
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(physics) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.
To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify
In transitive terms the difference between amplify and enrich
is that amplify is to increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current while enrich is to add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.amplify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
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* *enrich
English
Verb
(es)- Hobbies enrich lives.
citation, passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}