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Enlarge vs Magnified - What's the difference?

enlarge | magnified |

As verbs the difference between enlarge and magnified

is that enlarge is to make larger while magnified is (magnify).

As an adjective magnified is

having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.

enlarge

English

Verb

(enlarg)
  • To make larger.
  • To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
    • Knowledge enlarges the mind.
  • * Bible, 2 Corinthians vi. 11
    • O ye Corinthians, our heart is enlarged .
  • To speak at length upon'' or ''on (some subject)
  • * 1664 , (Samuel Butler), Hudibras 2.2.68:
    • I shall enlarge upon the Point.
  • (archaic) To release; to set at large.
  • * 1580 , (Philip Sidney), Arcadia 329:
    • Like a Lionesse lately enlarged .
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
    • Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge , / But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay, / I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away.
  • * Barrow
    • It will enlarge us from all restraints.
  • * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , Act II Scene II:
    • Uncle of Exeter, enlarge the man committed yesterday, that rail'd against our person. We consider it was excess of wine that set him on.
  • (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
  • (legal) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
    • (Abbott)

    Related terms

    * magnify * supersize

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    magnified

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.
    • The image was magnified by eight times.

    Synonyms

    * enlarged

    Verb

    (head)
  • (magnify)