Energize vs Amplify - What's the difference?
energize | amplify |
To invigorate, to make energetic.
To supply with energy, especially electricity. To turn on power to something.
(obsolete) To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
* J. C. Shairp
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 energize and amplify
is that energize is to invigorate, to make energetic while amplify is to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.energize
English
Alternative forms
* (Commonwealth English ) energiseVerb
(energiz)- Whenever we energize that circuit we blow a fuse.
- Of all men it is true that they feel and energize first, they reflect and judge afterwards.
amplify
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Verb
(en-verb)- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.