Magnify
verb
Make (something) appear larger than it is, especially with a lens or microscope.
The microscope magnified the cell structure.
Often appears as...
- magnify an image
- magnify an object
verb
Make (something) appear more important or serious than it actually is.
They tend to magnify every little problem.
Often appears as...
- magnify a problem
- magnify a mistake
verb
Praise (God), especially in song.
Let them magnify his name in the church.
Often appears as...
- magnify the lord
- magnify his name
Usage tips
Approving
Religious
verb
Make (something) appear larger than it is, especially with a lens or microscope.
The microscope magnified the cell structure.
Often appears as...
- magnify an image
- magnify an object
verb
Make (something) appear more important or serious than it actually is.
They tend to magnify every little problem.
Often appears as...
- magnify a problem
- magnify a mistake
verb
Praise (God), especially in song.
Let them magnify his name in the church.
Often appears as...
- magnify the lord
- magnify his name
Usage tips
Approving
Religious
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Visual aid
Used to describe the action of making something tiny look bigger so you can see details.
Scientists often magnify bacteria to study them.
Pro Tip 2/3Not literal
Sometimes used metaphorically to suggest increasing something's influence or presence.
The speaker's charisma magnified her message.
Pro Tip 3/3Photography context
In photography, magnify means to zoom in or enlarge an image for detail.
You should magnify this part of the photo to see the expression.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual aid
Used to describe the action of making something tiny look bigger so you can see details.
Scientists often magnify bacteria to study them.
Pro Tip 2/3Not literal
Sometimes used metaphorically to suggest increasing something's influence or presence.
The speaker's charisma magnified her message.
Pro Tip 3/3Photography context
In photography, magnify means to zoom in or enlarge an image for detail.
You should magnify this part of the photo to see the expression.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual aid
Used to describe the action of making something tiny look bigger so you can see details.
Scientists often magnify bacteria to study them.
Pro Tip 2/3Not literal
Sometimes used metaphorically to suggest increasing something's influence or presence.
The speaker's charisma magnified her message.
Pro Tip 3/3Photography context
In photography, magnify means to zoom in or enlarge an image for detail.
You should magnify this part of the photo to see the expression.
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Video examples
Watch the Total Solar...
filter you don't put it between your eye and the lens that's closed so you have to put it between the lens farthest away from you because this lens is magnifying the sun's ray that's right and it could it could tear a hole right in your filter if you put it close to your eye or it you know it could let some of this harmful UV rays in yep so the truth is
Video examples
Robert Waldinger: What...
But the people who were in unhappy relationships, on the days when they reported more physical pain, it was magnified by more emotional pain. And the third big lesson that we learned about relationships and our health is that good relationships don't just protect our bodies, they protect our brains.
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A simple way to tell...
like caterpillars, which use chewing mouthparts to devour leaves before metamorphosing into butterflies and moths with siphoning mouthparts. Still, mouthpart identification can, for the most part, help scientists—and you —categorize insects. So why not break out a magnifying lens
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A journey through the...
Now, she's afraid of bees and she's allergic to them, so I poured more resin on the canvas, thinking I could hide it or something. Instead, the opposite It sort of created a magnification, like a magnifying glass, on the dictionary text. So what did I do? I built more boxes.
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Is the world getting...
for pity, imagination, compassion, commiseration. These endowments have found ways to magnify their own power. The scope of language has been augmented by the written, printed and electronic word. Our circle of sympathy has been expanded
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Hackers: the internet's...
but what they are after isn't your money. It's not your documents. It's your attention. They grab the spotlight for causes they support, forcing us to take note, acting as a global magnifying glass
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Why I think inside the...
terribly allergic to bees and afraid of them so I covered it in more resin thinking I would hide it the opposite happened I discovered an optical quality the text was magnified this built me
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How your brain decides...
This stereotype is probably exploited and magnified by images in popular media, in which facial disfigurement is often used as a shorthand to depict someone of villainous character.
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New bionics let us run,...
Looking deeply inside nature, through the magnifying glass of science, designers extract principles, processes and materials that are forming the very basis of design methodology.
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Searching for Snow...
Mateo can use the long lens that will magnify a cat even from the other side of the valley it's a more traditional technique and it pays off
Video examples
Watch the Total Solar...
filter you don't put it between your eye and the lens that's closed so you have to put it between the lens farthest away from you because this lens is magnifying the sun's ray that's right and it could it could tear a hole right in your filter if you put it close to your eye or it you know it could let some of this harmful UV rays in yep so the truth is
Video examples
Robert Waldinger: What...
But the people who were in unhappy relationships, on the days when they reported more physical pain, it was magnified by more emotional pain. And the third big lesson that we learned about relationships and our health is that good relationships don't just protect our bodies, they protect our brains.
Video examples
A simple way to tell...
like caterpillars, which use chewing mouthparts to devour leaves before metamorphosing into butterflies and moths with siphoning mouthparts. Still, mouthpart identification can, for the most part, help scientists—and you —categorize insects. So why not break out a magnifying lens
Video examples
A journey through the...
Now, she's afraid of bees and she's allergic to them, so I poured more resin on the canvas, thinking I could hide it or something. Instead, the opposite It sort of created a magnification, like a magnifying glass, on the dictionary text. So what did I do? I built more boxes.
Video examples
Is the world getting...
for pity, imagination, compassion, commiseration. These endowments have found ways to magnify their own power. The scope of language has been augmented by the written, printed and electronic word. Our circle of sympathy has been expanded
Video examples
Hackers: the internet's...
but what they are after isn't your money. It's not your documents. It's your attention. They grab the spotlight for causes they support, forcing us to take note, acting as a global magnifying glass
Video examples
Why I think inside the...
terribly allergic to bees and afraid of them so I covered it in more resin thinking I would hide it the opposite happened I discovered an optical quality the text was magnified this built me
Video examples
How your brain decides...
This stereotype is probably exploited and magnified by images in popular media, in which facial disfigurement is often used as a shorthand to depict someone of villainous character.
Video examples
New bionics let us run,...
Looking deeply inside nature, through the magnifying glass of science, designers extract principles, processes and materials that are forming the very basis of design methodology.
Video examples
Searching for Snow...
Mateo can use the long lens that will magnify a cat even from the other side of the valley it's a more traditional technique and it pays off
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Quote examples
Josh Hamilton
American Actor
This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.
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Yami Gautam
Indian Actress
There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life.
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Nicholas A. Christakis
American Scientist
Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We're just adding additional information. Networks don't work like a match - they work like a magnifying glass.
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Jon Anderson
British Musician
You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.
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Karen Civil
American Businesswoman
Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.
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Giordano Bruno
Italian Philosopher
Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
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Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
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.
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Jeff Bridges
American Actor
What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.
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Alexander Pope
English Poet
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Ben Affleck
American Actor
There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.
Quote examples
Josh Hamilton
American Actor
This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.
Quote examples
Yami Gautam
Indian Actress
There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life.
Quote examples
Nicholas A. Christakis
American Scientist
Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We're just adding additional information. Networks don't work like a match - they work like a magnifying glass.
Quote examples
Jon Anderson
British Musician
You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.
Quote examples
Karen Civil
American Businesswoman
Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.
Quote examples
Giordano Bruno
Italian Philosopher
Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
Quote examples
Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
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.
Quote examples
Jeff Bridges
American Actor
What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.
Quote examples
Alexander Pope
English Poet
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Quote examples
Ben Affleck
American Actor
There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.
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