Elaborate vs Amplify - What's the difference?
elaborate | amplify |
Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
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Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
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*:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
(used with'' on ''when used with an object ) To give further detail or explanation (about).
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 verbs the difference between elaborate and amplify
is that elaborate is (used with on when used with an object) To give further detail or explanation (about) while amplify is to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.As an adjective elaborate
is highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.elaborate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(elaborat)- What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate ?
- Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?
amplify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.