Amplify
verb
To make something louder.
The sound system in the concert hall was adjusted to amplify the orchestra's music.
Often appears as...
- amplify sound
- amplify voice
verb
To increase the size, volume, quantity or scope of something.
The charity aims to amplify its fundraising efforts to reach more people in need.
Often appears as...
- amplify efforts
- amplify impact
verb
To explain something more fully or in greater detail.
She asked him to amplify his statement so everyone could understand better.
Often appears as...
- amplify statement
- amplify explanation
verb
In electronics, to increase the amplitude of an electrical signal.
In a radio, the amplifier will amplify the signal received by the antenna.
Often appears as...
- amplify signal
- amplify wave
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To make something louder.
The sound system in the concert hall was adjusted to amplify the orchestra's music.
Often appears as...
- amplify sound
- amplify voice
verb
To increase the size, volume, quantity or scope of something.
The charity aims to amplify its fundraising efforts to reach more people in need.
Often appears as...
- amplify efforts
- amplify impact
verb
To explain something more fully or in greater detail.
She asked him to amplify his statement so everyone could understand better.
Often appears as...
- amplify statement
- amplify explanation
verb
In electronics, to increase the amplitude of an electrical signal.
In a radio, the amplifier will amplify the signal received by the antenna.
Often appears as...
- amplify signal
- amplify wave
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Sound Intensification
Used when talking about increasing the volume of audio like music or a person's voice.
Can you amplify your voice a bit? The people at the back can't hear you.
Pro Tip 2/2Technical Equipment
Often associated with audio devices like microphones, speakers, or amplifiers that make sounds louder.
The guitarist uses a pedal to amplify the sound of his electric guitar.
Pro Tip 1/2Sound Intensification
Used when talking about increasing the volume of audio like music or a person's voice.
Can you amplify your voice a bit? The people at the back can't hear you.
Pro Tip 2/2Technical Equipment
Often associated with audio devices like microphones, speakers, or amplifiers that make sounds louder.
The guitarist uses a pedal to amplify the sound of his electric guitar.
Pro Tip 1/2Sound Intensification
Used when talking about increasing the volume of audio like music or a person's voice.
Can you amplify your voice a bit? The people at the back can't hear you.
Pro Tip 2/2Technical Equipment
Often associated with audio devices like microphones, speakers, or amplifiers that make sounds louder.
The guitarist uses a pedal to amplify the sound of his electric guitar.
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Boniface Mwangi: The day...
and amplified across the country, across the continent. Where I used to stand up alone seven years ago, now I belong to a community of many people who stand up with me. I am no longer alone when I stand up to speak about these things. I belong to a group of young people who are passionate about the country, who want to bring about change,
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TED-Ed YouTube Channel...
Based on the distance between the two stations -- The quest for knowledge and understanding never gets dull. He calculates the speed of light to within two percent of its actual value. The more you know, the more amazing the world seems. That's the central mission of to capture and to amplify the voice of the world's greatest teachers.
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What makes a poem … a...
toe the line between visual art and poetry. Meanwhile, E.E. Cummings wrote poems whose shapes were as important as the words themselves, in this case amplifying the sad loneliness of a single leaf falling through space. If the visual nature of poetry faded into the background, perhaps we'd be left with music,
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Is it possible to create...
as the universe expanded, they were amplified and stretched out to cosmic scales. Cosmologists believe that these original quantum fluctuations were the seeds of everything we see galaxies and the entire large scale structure of the universe, as well as planets and solar systems.
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Why neutrinos matter -...
Photomultiplier tubes amplify the signal, which contains information about the charged particles' paths and energies. The data are beamed to astrophysicists around the world who look at the patterns of light for clues about the neutrinos that produced them.
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How can education foster...
and we reached out to our colleague institutions across a continent invited them to join us and conversations and workshops around curriculum design the use of technology to amplify the work of our faculty how we foster relationships
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How transistors work -...
thus, enabling fast current-switching. The ability to amplify signals also made the triode crucial for radio and long distance communication. But despite these advancements, vacuum tubes were unreliable and bulky.
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Earthrise: The Story of...
could this little ball you know exists in this vast universe of nothing the fact that the lunar horizon was so ugly in stark that amplified the beauty of the earth
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What Islam really says...
Every day, I work to amplify the voices of women and to highlight their experiences and their participation in peace processes and conflict resolution,
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Ten Million Starlings...
their weapon of choice is a loudspeaker it plays back a stalin's alarm call amplified 100 times for these birds there is simply nothing
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Boniface Mwangi: The day...
and amplified across the country, across the continent. Where I used to stand up alone seven years ago, now I belong to a community of many people who stand up with me. I am no longer alone when I stand up to speak about these things. I belong to a group of young people who are passionate about the country, who want to bring about change,
Video examples
TED-Ed YouTube Channel...
Based on the distance between the two stations -- The quest for knowledge and understanding never gets dull. He calculates the speed of light to within two percent of its actual value. The more you know, the more amazing the world seems. That's the central mission of to capture and to amplify the voice of the world's greatest teachers.
Video examples
What makes a poem … a...
toe the line between visual art and poetry. Meanwhile, E.E. Cummings wrote poems whose shapes were as important as the words themselves, in this case amplifying the sad loneliness of a single leaf falling through space. If the visual nature of poetry faded into the background, perhaps we'd be left with music,
Video examples
Is it possible to create...
as the universe expanded, they were amplified and stretched out to cosmic scales. Cosmologists believe that these original quantum fluctuations were the seeds of everything we see galaxies and the entire large scale structure of the universe, as well as planets and solar systems.
Video examples
Why neutrinos matter -...
Photomultiplier tubes amplify the signal, which contains information about the charged particles' paths and energies. The data are beamed to astrophysicists around the world who look at the patterns of light for clues about the neutrinos that produced them.
Video examples
How can education foster...
and we reached out to our colleague institutions across a continent invited them to join us and conversations and workshops around curriculum design the use of technology to amplify the work of our faculty how we foster relationships
Video examples
How transistors work -...
thus, enabling fast current-switching. The ability to amplify signals also made the triode crucial for radio and long distance communication. But despite these advancements, vacuum tubes were unreliable and bulky.
Video examples
Earthrise: The Story of...
could this little ball you know exists in this vast universe of nothing the fact that the lunar horizon was so ugly in stark that amplified the beauty of the earth
Video examples
What Islam really says...
Every day, I work to amplify the voices of women and to highlight their experiences and their participation in peace processes and conflict resolution,
Video examples
Ten Million Starlings...
their weapon of choice is a loudspeaker it plays back a stalin's alarm call amplified 100 times for these birds there is simply nothing
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Hari Nef
American Actress
When you're a teenager, everything is amplified because everything is a first. The first time you feel othered, the first time you feel rejected, the first time you fall in love... it's the first time, so it's so vivid, and everything feels like the whole world almost, because it is your whole world; your world is small when you're a teenager.
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Steven Weinberg
American Scientist
Science merely amplifies the capabilities of human beings. Science gives us the ability to do ill and to do good more than we had, and to question science in this respect is like questioning whether people ought to have two hands or just one, because with two hands they could do more evil than they can with just one.
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Kevin McCloud
British Designer
I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.
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Stefan Sagmeister
Austrian Designer
By far, the most determining factor of any brand is the product or the service the company produces. Branding companies have very rarely any significant influence on that, but it is, of course, in their interest to amplify their importance.
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Jessica Chastain
American Actress
I'm so inspired by the women who are far braver than I am, who have come forward with their stories and risked everything to help others. What is important is that the voices of these women do not disappear. We must amplify them.
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Lactantius
Author
The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
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Bill Pullman
American Actor
It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The audience amplifies the experience.
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Margot Kidder
American Actress
With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.
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Louis B. Rosenberg
American Inventor
The long-term value of amplifying the intelligence of people is a lot more important than betting on sports.
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Ron Carlson
American Novelist
I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.
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Hari Nef
American Actress
When you're a teenager, everything is amplified because everything is a first. The first time you feel othered, the first time you feel rejected, the first time you fall in love... it's the first time, so it's so vivid, and everything feels like the whole world almost, because it is your whole world; your world is small when you're a teenager.
Quote examples
Steven Weinberg
American Scientist
Science merely amplifies the capabilities of human beings. Science gives us the ability to do ill and to do good more than we had, and to question science in this respect is like questioning whether people ought to have two hands or just one, because with two hands they could do more evil than they can with just one.
Quote examples
Kevin McCloud
British Designer
I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.
Quote examples
Stefan Sagmeister
Austrian Designer
By far, the most determining factor of any brand is the product or the service the company produces. Branding companies have very rarely any significant influence on that, but it is, of course, in their interest to amplify their importance.
Quote examples
Jessica Chastain
American Actress
I'm so inspired by the women who are far braver than I am, who have come forward with their stories and risked everything to help others. What is important is that the voices of these women do not disappear. We must amplify them.
Quote examples
Lactantius
Author
The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
Quote examples
Bill Pullman
American Actor
It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The audience amplifies the experience.
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Margot Kidder
American Actress
With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.
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Louis B. Rosenberg
American Inventor
The long-term value of amplifying the intelligence of people is a lot more important than betting on sports.
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Ron Carlson
American Novelist
I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.
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