Amplify vs Plentiful - What's the difference?
amplify | plentiful |
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.
Existing in large number or ample amount.
Yielding abundance; fruitful.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) lavish; profuse; prodigal
* Francis Bacon
As a verb amplify
is to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.As an adjective plentiful is
existing in large number or ample amount.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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* *plentiful
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Alternative forms
* plentifull (archaic)Adjective
(en-adj)- a plentiful harvest
- a plentiful supply of water
- She accumulated a plentiful collection of books.
- Some years, the tree is a plentiful source of apples.
- If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year.
- He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be preserved from decay.