multiply

[mul·ti·ply]

When you multiply two numbers, you increase the first by the same number that's specified by the second. In other words, when you multiply two by three, you add together three twos.

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To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

Verb
have offspring or young; "The deer in our neighborhood reproduce madly"; "The Catholic Church tells people to procreate, no matter what their economic situation may be"

Verb
have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity"

Verb
combine or increase by multiplication; "He managed to multiply his profits"

Verb
combine by multiplication; "multiply 10 by 15"

Adverb
in several ways; in a multiple manner; "they were multiply checked for errors"

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v. t.
To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

v. t.
To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication.

v. t.
To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy.

v. i.
To become greater in number; to become numerous.

v. i.
To increase in extent and influence; to spread.

v. i.
To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy.


Multiply

Mul"ti*ply , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Multiplied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Multiplying .] [F. multiplier, L. multiplicare, fr. multiplex manifold. See Multitude, Complex.] 1. To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.
Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience.
2. (Math.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication. 3. To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy. [Obs.] Multiplying gear (Mach.), gear for increasing speed. -- Multiplying lens. (Opt.) See under Lens.

Multiply

Mul"ti*ply, v. i. 1. To become greater in number; to become numerous.
When men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them.
2. To increase in extent and influence; to spread.
The word of God grew and multiplied.
3. To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

To become greater in number; to become numerous.

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Usage Examples

I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

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