Expanded vs Amplified - What's the difference?
expanded | amplified |
(expand)
(label) To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one.
(label) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(label) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value
(label) To (be) change(d) from a smaller form/size to a larger one.
(label) To (be) increase(d) in extent, number, volume or scope.
(label) To speak or write at length or in detail.
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, title=, chapter=1
, passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
(label) To feel generous or optimistic.
(amplify)
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 expanded and amplified
is that expanded is (expand) while amplified is (amplify).expanded
English
Verb
(head)expand
English
Verb
(en verb)- Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
Synonyms
* open out, spread, spread out, unfold * enlarge * (to express at length or in detail) elaborate (on), expand onAntonyms
* contract * contract * factorDerived terms
* expandable * expanderamplified
English
Verb
(head)amplify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.