Amplify vs Synonymia - What's the difference?
amplify | synonymia |
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.
(rhetoric) The use of two or more synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term. A kind of repetition that adds force.
* 2007', Sylvia Adamson, "'''Synonymia , or in other words", in Anderson, ''et al.'', ''Renaissance figures of speech , page 29
As a verb amplify
is to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.As a noun synonymia is
(rhetoric) the use of two or more synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term a kind of repetition that adds force.amplify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
External links
* *synonymia
English
Noun
(synonymiae)- At its simplest (sometimes called synonymia simplex), it takes the form of synonymous words arranged in doublets, .
