Important vs Magnify - What's the difference?
important | magnify |
Having relevant and crucial value.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 *1988, (Robert Ferro), Second Son :
*:For this was the most important thing, that when a person felt strongly about an issue in life, it mustn’t be ignored by others; for if it was, everything subsequent to it would turn out badly, even though there should seem to be no direct connection.
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, title= To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially god).
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts X:
* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :
To make (something) larger or more important.
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* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.
To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (intransitive, slang, obsolete) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.
As a adjective important
is having relevant and crucial value.As a verb magnify is
to praise, glorify (someone or something, especially god).important
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
Synonyms
* (l) * See alsoAntonyms
* unimportant * negligibleDerived terms
* importantly, importantness, unimportant, VIPmagnify
English
Verb
- For they herde them speake with tonges, and magnify God.
- For he who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declare as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best cov'nant of his fidelity [...].
- The least error in a small quantitybe proportionately magnified .
citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. This only magnified the indispensable nature of the oligopolists.}}
Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}
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