Definition of magnify in English:

magnify

verbmagnifying, magnified, magnifies ˈmaɡnɪfʌɪˈmæɡnəˌfaɪ

[with object]

1Make (something) appear larger than it is, especially with a lens or microscope.
（尤指用透镜或显微镜）放大，扩大
the retinal image will be magnified
网膜像视会被放大。
Example sentencesExamples
- When this spectrum is magnified, black lines can be seen superimposed on the colours.
- From either side, the viewer looks through Fresnel lenses that magnify the insects.
- These foreground clusters act as lenses that magnify the light of the protogalaxies and allow us to detect and study them.
- Galileo's telescope was similar to a pair of opera glasses in that it used an arrangement of glass lenses to magnify objects.
- Her blue eyes were magnified from the lenses of her glasses, making them appear like pools of the Pacific Ocean.
- Isaac Newton proposed using a curved mirror, rather than a lens, to magnify the heavens, and reflecting telescopes are nowadays the norm.
- These moons and rings had existed for millennia, but they were beyond human perception until the invention of a device that could magnify the faint images.
- Viruses are extremely small things, so even normal microscopes are not powerful enough to allow us to visualise a virus, so one has to use an electron microscope which magnifies objects by 40,000 times or so.
- Atomic force microscopy uses a mechanical probe to magnify rigid materials at the atomic scale to produce 3 - D images of the surface.
- Special effects like mosaic and sepia can be applied in-camera, while a 4x digital zoom magnifies your subject.
- This is not to say that digital imaging cannot be used for high-power photography, but rather simply that one cannot obtain those high-power photographs by magnifying low-power images.
- Way out in the corners of the galaxy, there are objects so massive that they curve light into gargantuan gravitational lenses, distorting and magnifying objects behind them.
- Most models offer a digital zoom, which lets you magnify an image after it's been snapped.
- The lens tube serves to magnify the illuminated slide, so that projected images from 6 to 12 feet wide can be obtained.
- Not giving up, Keyan put the bullet under a microscope, magnifying it 1000 times and going over the surface nanometer by nanometer.
- Here the image is magnified by a second lens, known as the eyepiece.
- The endoscope is extremely small, which allows the viewing lens to magnify an image up to 200%.
- To see an air molecule, one must use a complex microscope that can magnify an object over a million times.
- On a still smaller scale, magnified several hundred times, similar patterns emerge on the surface of a pollen grain.
- Eventually, electron microscopy was greatly improved, with microscopes able to magnify an image 2,000,000 times.
Synonyms
enlarge, boost, enhance, maximize, increase, augment, extend, expand, amplify, intensify, heighten, deepen, broaden, widen, dilate
1. 1.1 Increase or exaggerate the importance or effect of.
  夸大，夸张
  you had problems before you went to Vietnam, and 'Nam magnified them
  Example sentencesExamples
  The sneer magnified on his face, then changed into mocking laughter.
  First, tadpole foraging and growth rate may increase with increased size, and hence any negative effect of the predator on growth rate will be magnified at high tadpole growth rates.
  Yet if vulnerabilities and safeguards aren't linked, and vested interests are allowed to get in the way of objectivity, risk will only be magnified.
  Those small moments of relative lushness are magnified, become powerful and touching, in their drab context.
  His chin was tilted up, creating a belligerent mask-like effect, readily magnified by the frosted glare of his eyes.
  Attachment behaviors are likely to be heightened, and transition stress will be magnified for those who lack a safe attachment to their family members.
  Cook and Barrett play in the New York metropolitan area, which magnifies the media attention.
  Painted a vivid yellow that is echoed in the striped bedspread, the wall contrasts with adjacent white surfaces to magnify the room's sunlit quality.
  This can be seen as an example of synergistic epistasis, in which deleterious alleles tend to magnify each other's effects.
  As the minutes wore on, the enormous audience began to fairly bake with the tension spreading, reflecting, and magnifying from mind to mind.
  The beating in his chest was magnifying and he felt he was about to burst and scream out his anger as he turned the corner.
  In other words, the synergistic effects of one solution can be magnified by other solutions in the chain.
  Often induced by witnessing atrocities, the trauma's impact has been magnified by the effects of malnutrition and squalid living conditions.
  Indeed, it is often the case that an area can find itself subjected to a number of tremors, where the effects will overlap and magnify each other.
  These will reflect and magnify any blast on to unprotected buildings over a wider area with potentially disastrous results for their occupants.
  When private companies enter the field of manned spaceflight, those inherent risks could be magnified.
  Were these activities strung together in an integrated fashion - building on one another - the impact and potential for success would be magnified dramatically.
  Consequently all the city's contrasts, contradictions and ambiguities seem to be magnified by the scorching sun.
  It is well known that when mixed, chemicals may magnify one another's effects.
  Trapped for weeks on end with the same group of people, under the same roof, the constant casual cruelties of adolescence were both magnified and intensified - causing me much quiet suffering.
  Synonyms
  enlarge, boost, enhance, maximize, increase, augment, extend, expand, amplify, intensify, heighten, deepen, broaden, widen, dilate
  exaggerate, overstate, overemphasize, overplay, dramatize, colour, embroider, embellish, enhance, inflate, amplify, make a mountain out of, make a mountain out of a molehill
2archaic Praise highly; glorify.
praise the Lord and magnify Him
赞美上帝并颂扬他。
Example sentencesExamples
- Time shall embalm and magnify her name.
- The words go like this: Im free to worship, Im free to praise, Im free to lift up holy hands and magnify His name.
Synonyms
praise, bless, worship, venerate, adore, extol

Derivatives

magnifiable

adjective

magnifier

noun ˈmaɡnɪfʌɪəˈmæɡnəˌfaɪr

Illuminated magnifiers are also available in ten libraries for people to use to look at books and other material in the library
Example sentencesExamples
- Equally interesting is a sermon of Jonathan's grandfather, Solomon Stoddard, written in lettering so tiny that it's unreadable even with a 5x magnifier.
- Areas where the glue was applied show up under ultraviolet light, and police can read the microdots using a hand-held illuminated magnifier.
- Twelve years later, Roy's condition has remained fairly stable and he can use special magnifiers to read newspapers and can watch the TV from around 12 inches away.
- The company designs, manufactures and distributes a range of electronic magnifiers for the visually impaired and partially sighted.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the senses 'show honour to (God') and 'make greater'): from Old French magnifier or Latin magnificare, based on Latin magnus 'great'. sense 1 dates from the mid 17th century.

Early uses have strong biblical associations and included ‘show honour to (God)’ (Luke 1:46: ‘My soul doth magnify the Lord’: part of the Magnificat, a canticle used in Christian liturgy) and ‘make greater in size or importance’ (Job 20:6: ‘Though he be magnified up to the heaven’). ‘Make larger by means of a lens’ is a sense dating from the mid 17th century. It goes back to Latin magnus ‘great’ as does magnificent (Late Middle English) originally ‘serving to magnify’.

Definition of magnify in US English:

magnify

verbˈmaɡnəˌfīˈmæɡnəˌfaɪ

[with object]

1Make (something) appear larger than it is, especially with a lens or microscope.
（尤指用透镜或显微镜）放大，扩大
the camera's zoom mode can magnify a certain area if required
Example sentencesExamples
- Eventually, electron microscopy was greatly improved, with microscopes able to magnify an image 2,000,000 times.
- Way out in the corners of the galaxy, there are objects so massive that they curve light into gargantuan gravitational lenses, distorting and magnifying objects behind them.
- From either side, the viewer looks through Fresnel lenses that magnify the insects.
- The endoscope is extremely small, which allows the viewing lens to magnify an image up to 200%.
- Her blue eyes were magnified from the lenses of her glasses, making them appear like pools of the Pacific Ocean.
- Isaac Newton proposed using a curved mirror, rather than a lens, to magnify the heavens, and reflecting telescopes are nowadays the norm.
- Special effects like mosaic and sepia can be applied in-camera, while a 4x digital zoom magnifies your subject.
- When this spectrum is magnified, black lines can be seen superimposed on the colours.
- Galileo's telescope was similar to a pair of opera glasses in that it used an arrangement of glass lenses to magnify objects.
- Most models offer a digital zoom, which lets you magnify an image after it's been snapped.
- Atomic force microscopy uses a mechanical probe to magnify rigid materials at the atomic scale to produce 3 - D images of the surface.
- Viruses are extremely small things, so even normal microscopes are not powerful enough to allow us to visualise a virus, so one has to use an electron microscope which magnifies objects by 40,000 times or so.
- On a still smaller scale, magnified several hundred times, similar patterns emerge on the surface of a pollen grain.
- These foreground clusters act as lenses that magnify the light of the protogalaxies and allow us to detect and study them.
- This is not to say that digital imaging cannot be used for high-power photography, but rather simply that one cannot obtain those high-power photographs by magnifying low-power images.
- Here the image is magnified by a second lens, known as the eyepiece.
- Not giving up, Keyan put the bullet under a microscope, magnifying it 1000 times and going over the surface nanometer by nanometer.
- The lens tube serves to magnify the illuminated slide, so that projected images from 6 to 12 feet wide can be obtained.
- To see an air molecule, one must use a complex microscope that can magnify an object over a million times.
- These moons and rings had existed for millennia, but they were beyond human perception until the invention of a device that could magnify the faint images.
Synonyms
enlarge, boost, enhance, maximize, increase, augment, extend, expand, amplify, intensify, heighten, deepen, broaden, widen, dilate
1. 1.1 Increase or exaggerate the importance or effect of.
  夸大，夸张
  the risk is magnified if there is any dirty material next to the skin
  如果皮肤旁边有脏物危险性会增大。
  she tended to magnify the defects of those she disliked
  她喜欢夸大她不喜欢人物的缺点。
  Example sentencesExamples
  His chin was tilted up, creating a belligerent mask-like effect, readily magnified by the frosted glare of his eyes.
  First, tadpole foraging and growth rate may increase with increased size, and hence any negative effect of the predator on growth rate will be magnified at high tadpole growth rates.
  Often induced by witnessing atrocities, the trauma's impact has been magnified by the effects of malnutrition and squalid living conditions.
  The beating in his chest was magnifying and he felt he was about to burst and scream out his anger as he turned the corner.
  The sneer magnified on his face, then changed into mocking laughter.
  It is well known that when mixed, chemicals may magnify one another's effects.
  When private companies enter the field of manned spaceflight, those inherent risks could be magnified.
  Were these activities strung together in an integrated fashion - building on one another - the impact and potential for success would be magnified dramatically.
  In other words, the synergistic effects of one solution can be magnified by other solutions in the chain.
  Indeed, it is often the case that an area can find itself subjected to a number of tremors, where the effects will overlap and magnify each other.
  Painted a vivid yellow that is echoed in the striped bedspread, the wall contrasts with adjacent white surfaces to magnify the room's sunlit quality.
  Yet if vulnerabilities and safeguards aren't linked, and vested interests are allowed to get in the way of objectivity, risk will only be magnified.
  Consequently all the city's contrasts, contradictions and ambiguities seem to be magnified by the scorching sun.
  As the minutes wore on, the enormous audience began to fairly bake with the tension spreading, reflecting, and magnifying from mind to mind.
  This can be seen as an example of synergistic epistasis, in which deleterious alleles tend to magnify each other's effects.
  Trapped for weeks on end with the same group of people, under the same roof, the constant casual cruelties of adolescence were both magnified and intensified - causing me much quiet suffering.
  Attachment behaviors are likely to be heightened, and transition stress will be magnified for those who lack a safe attachment to their family members.
  Those small moments of relative lushness are magnified, become powerful and touching, in their drab context.
  These will reflect and magnify any blast on to unprotected buildings over a wider area with potentially disastrous results for their occupants.
  Cook and Barrett play in the New York metropolitan area, which magnifies the media attention.
  Synonyms
  enlarge, boost, enhance, maximize, increase, augment, extend, expand, amplify, intensify, heighten, deepen, broaden, widen, dilate
  exaggerate, overstate, overemphasize, overplay, dramatize, colour, embroider, embellish, enhance, inflate, amplify, make a mountain out of, make a mountain out of a molehill
2archaic Extol; glorify.
〈古〉赞美；颂扬
praise the Lord and magnify Him
赞美上帝并颂扬他。
Example sentencesExamples
- The words go like this: Im free to worship, Im free to praise, Im free to lift up holy hands and magnify His name.
- Time shall embalm and magnify her name.
Synonyms
praise, bless, worship, venerate, adore, extol

Origin

Late Middle English (in the senses ‘show honor to (God’) and ‘make greater’): from Old French magnifier or Latin magnificare, based on Latin magnus ‘great’. magnify (sense 1) dates from the mid 17th century.

词汇	magnify
释义	Definition of magnify in English: magnify verbmagnifying, magnified, magnifies ˈmaɡnɪfʌɪˈmæɡnəˌfaɪ [with object] 1Make (something) appear larger than it is, especially with a lens or microscope. （尤指用透镜或显微镜）放大，扩大 the retinal image will be magnified 网膜像视会被放大。 Example sentencesExamples When this spectrum is magnified, black lines can be seen superimposed on the colours. From either side, the viewer looks through Fresnel lenses that magnify the insects. These foreground clusters act as lenses that magnify the light of the protogalaxies and allow us to detect and study them. Galileo's telescope was similar to a pair of opera glasses in that it used an arrangement of glass lenses to magnify objects. Her blue eyes were magnified from the lenses of her glasses, making them appear like pools of the Pacific Ocean. Isaac Newton proposed using a curved mirror, rather than a lens, to magnify the heavens, and reflecting telescopes are nowadays the norm. These moons and rings had existed for millennia, but they were beyond human perception until the invention of a device that could magnify the faint images. Viruses are extremely small things, so even normal microscopes are not powerful enough to allow us to visualise a virus, so one has to use an electron microscope which magnifies objects by 40,000 times or so. Atomic force microscopy uses a mechanical probe to magnify rigid materials at the atomic scale to produce 3 - D images of the surface. Special effects like mosaic and sepia can be applied in-camera, while a 4x digital zoom magnifies your subject. This is not to say that digital imaging cannot be used for high-power photography, but rather simply that one cannot obtain those high-power photographs by magnifying low-power images. Way out in the corners of the galaxy, there are objects so massive that they curve light into gargantuan gravitational lenses, distorting and magnifying objects behind them. Most models offer a digital zoom, which lets you magnify an image after it's been snapped. The lens tube serves to magnify the illuminated slide, so that projected images from 6 to 12 feet wide can be obtained. Not giving up, Keyan put the bullet under a microscope, magnifying it 1000 times and going over the surface nanometer by nanometer. Here the image is magnified by a second lens, known as the eyepiece. The endoscope is extremely small, which allows the viewing lens to magnify an image up to 200%. To see an air molecule, one must use a complex microscope that can magnify an object over a million times. On a still smaller scale, magnified several hundred times, similar patterns emerge on the surface of a pollen grain. Eventually, electron microscopy was greatly improved, with microscopes able to magnify an image 2,000,000 times. Synonyms enlarge, boost, enhance, maximize, increase, augment, extend, expand, amplify, intensify, heighten, deepen, broaden, widen, dilate 1.1 Increase or exaggerate the importance or effect of. 夸大，夸张 you had problems before you went to Vietnam, and 'Nam magnified them Example sentencesExamples The sneer magnified on his face, then changed into mocking laughter. First, tadpole foraging and growth rate may increase with increased size, and hence any negative effect of the predator on growth rate will be magnified at high tadpole growth rates. Yet if vulnerabilities and safeguards aren't linked, and vested interests are allowed to get in the way of objectivity, risk will only be magnified. Those small moments of relative lushness are magnified, become powerful and touching, in their drab context. His chin was tilted up, creating a belligerent mask-like effect, readily magnified by the frosted glare of his eyes. Attachment behaviors are likely to be heightened, and transition stress will be magnified for those who lack a safe attachment to their family members. Cook and Barrett play in the New York metropolitan area, which magnifies the media attention. Painted a vivid yellow that is echoed in the striped bedspread, the wall contrasts with adjacent white surfaces to magnify the room's sunlit quality. This can be seen as an example of synergistic epistasis, in which deleterious alleles tend to magnify each other's effects. As the minutes wore on, the enormous audience began to fairly bake with the tension spreading, reflecting, and magnifying from mind to mind. The beating in his chest was magnifying and he felt he was about to burst and scream out his anger as he turned the corner. In other words, the synergistic effects of one solution can be magnified by other solutions in the chain. Often induced by witnessing atrocities, the trauma's impact has been magnified by the effects of malnutrition and squalid living conditions. Indeed, it is often the case that an area can find itself subjected to a number of tremors, where the effects will overlap and magnify each other. These will reflect and magnify any blast on to unprotected buildings over a wider area with potentially disastrous results for their occupants. When private companies enter the field of manned spaceflight, those inherent risks could be magnified. Were these activities strung together in an integrated fashion - building on one another - the impact and potential for success would be magnified dramatically. Consequently all the city's contrasts, contradictions and ambiguities seem to be magnified by the scorching sun. It is well known that when mixed, chemicals may magnify one another's effects. Trapped for weeks on end with the same group of people, under the same roof, the constant casual cruelties of adolescence were both magnified and intensified - causing me much quiet suffering. Synonyms enlarge, boost, enhance, maximize, increase, augment, extend, expand, amplify, intensify, heighten, deepen, broaden, widen, dilate exaggerate, overstate, overemphasize, overplay, dramatize, colour, embroider, embellish, enhance, inflate, amplify, make a mountain out of, make a mountain out of a molehill 2archaic Praise highly; glorify. praise the Lord and magnify Him 赞美上帝并颂扬他。 Example sentencesExamples Time shall embalm and magnify her name. The words go like this: Im free to worship, Im free to praise, Im free to lift up holy hands and magnify His name. Synonyms praise, bless, worship, venerate, adore, extol Derivatives magnifiable adjective magnifier noun ˈmaɡnɪfʌɪəˈmæɡnəˌfaɪr Illuminated magnifiers are also available in ten libraries for people to use to look at books and other material in the library Example sentencesExamples Equally interesting is a sermon of Jonathan's grandfather, Solomon Stoddard, written in lettering so tiny that it's unreadable even with a 5x magnifier. Areas where the glue was applied show up under ultraviolet light, and police can read the microdots using a hand-held illuminated magnifier. Twelve years later, Roy's condition has remained fairly stable and he can use special magnifiers to read newspapers and can watch the TV from around 12 inches away. The company designs, manufactures and distributes a range of electronic magnifiers for the visually impaired and partially sighted. Origin Late Middle English (in the senses 'show honour to (God') and 'make greater'): from Old French magnifier or Latin magnificare, based on Latin magnus 'great'. sense 1 dates from the mid 17th century. Early uses have strong biblical associations and included ‘show honour to (God)’ (Luke 1:46: ‘My soul doth magnify the Lord’: part of the Magnificat, a canticle used in Christian liturgy) and ‘make greater in size or importance’ (Job 20:6: ‘Though he be magnified up to the heaven’). ‘Make larger by means of a lens’ is a sense dating from the mid 17th century. It goes back to Latin magnus ‘great’ as does magnificent (Late Middle English) originally ‘serving to magnify’. Definition of magnify in US English: magnify verbˈmaɡnəˌfīˈmæɡnəˌfaɪ [with object] 1Make (something) appear larger than it is, especially with a lens or microscope. （尤指用透镜或显微镜）放大，扩大 the camera's zoom mode can magnify a certain area if required Example sentencesExamples Eventually, electron microscopy was greatly improved, with microscopes able to magnify an image 2,000,000 times. Way out in the corners of the galaxy, there are objects so massive that they curve light into gargantuan gravitational lenses, distorting and magnifying objects behind them. From either side, the viewer looks through Fresnel lenses that magnify the insects. The endoscope is extremely small, which allows the viewing lens to magnify an image up to 200%. Her blue eyes were magnified from the lenses of her glasses, making them appear like pools of the Pacific Ocean. Isaac Newton proposed using a curved mirror, rather than a lens, to magnify the heavens, and reflecting telescopes are nowadays the norm. Special effects like mosaic and sepia can be applied in-camera, while a 4x digital zoom magnifies your subject. When this spectrum is magnified, black lines can be seen superimposed on the colours. Galileo's telescope was similar to a pair of opera glasses in that it used an arrangement of glass lenses to magnify objects. Most models offer a digital zoom, which lets you magnify an image after it's been snapped. Atomic force microscopy uses a mechanical probe to magnify rigid materials at the atomic scale to produce 3 - D images of the surface. Viruses are extremely small things, so even normal microscopes are not powerful enough to allow us to visualise a virus, so one has to use an electron microscope which magnifies objects by 40,000 times or so. On a still smaller scale, magnified several hundred times, similar patterns emerge on the surface of a pollen grain. These foreground clusters act as lenses that magnify the light of the protogalaxies and allow us to detect and study them. This is not to say that digital imaging cannot be used for high-power photography, but rather simply that one cannot obtain those high-power photographs by magnifying low-power images. Here the image is magnified by a second lens, known as the eyepiece. Not giving up, Keyan put the bullet under a microscope, magnifying it 1000 times and going over the surface nanometer by nanometer. The lens tube serves to magnify the illuminated slide, so that projected images from 6 to 12 feet wide can be obtained. To see an air molecule, one must use a complex microscope that can magnify an object over a million times. These moons and rings had existed for millennia, but they were beyond human perception until the invention of a device that could magnify the faint images. Synonyms enlarge, boost, enhance, maximize, increase, augment, extend, expand, amplify, intensify, heighten, deepen, broaden, widen, dilate 1.1 Increase or exaggerate the importance or effect of. 夸大，夸张 the risk is magnified if there is any dirty material next to the skin 如果皮肤旁边有脏物危险性会增大。 she tended to magnify the defects of those she disliked 她喜欢夸大她不喜欢人物的缺点。 Example sentencesExamples His chin was tilted up, creating a belligerent mask-like effect, readily magnified by the frosted glare of his eyes. First, tadpole foraging and growth rate may increase with increased size, and hence any negative effect of the predator on growth rate will be magnified at high tadpole growth rates. Often induced by witnessing atrocities, the trauma's impact has been magnified by the effects of malnutrition and squalid living conditions. The beating in his chest was magnifying and he felt he was about to burst and scream out his anger as he turned the corner. The sneer magnified on his face, then changed into mocking laughter. It is well known that when mixed, chemicals may magnify one another's effects. When private companies enter the field of manned spaceflight, those inherent risks could be magnified. Were these activities strung together in an integrated fashion - building on one another - the impact and potential for success would be magnified dramatically. In other words, the synergistic effects of one solution can be magnified by other solutions in the chain. Indeed, it is often the case that an area can find itself subjected to a number of tremors, where the effects will overlap and magnify each other. Painted a vivid yellow that is echoed in the striped bedspread, the wall contrasts with adjacent white surfaces to magnify the room's sunlit quality. Yet if vulnerabilities and safeguards aren't linked, and vested interests are allowed to get in the way of objectivity, risk will only be magnified. Consequently all the city's contrasts, contradictions and ambiguities seem to be magnified by the scorching sun. As the minutes wore on, the enormous audience began to fairly bake with the tension spreading, reflecting, and magnifying from mind to mind. This can be seen as an example of synergistic epistasis, in which deleterious alleles tend to magnify each other's effects. Trapped for weeks on end with the same group of people, under the same roof, the constant casual cruelties of adolescence were both magnified and intensified - causing me much quiet suffering. Attachment behaviors are likely to be heightened, and transition stress will be magnified for those who lack a safe attachment to their family members. Those small moments of relative lushness are magnified, become powerful and touching, in their drab context. These will reflect and magnify any blast on to unprotected buildings over a wider area with potentially disastrous results for their occupants. Cook and Barrett play in the New York metropolitan area, which magnifies the media attention. Synonyms enlarge, boost, enhance, maximize, increase, augment, extend, expand, amplify, intensify, heighten, deepen, broaden, widen, dilate exaggerate, overstate, overemphasize, overplay, dramatize, colour, embroider, embellish, enhance, inflate, amplify, make a mountain out of, make a mountain out of a molehill 2archaic Extol; glorify. 〈古〉赞美；颂扬 praise the Lord and magnify Him 赞美上帝并颂扬他。 Example sentencesExamples The words go like this: Im free to worship, Im free to praise, Im free to lift up holy hands and magnify His name. Time shall embalm and magnify her name. Synonyms praise, bless, worship, venerate, adore, extol Origin Late Middle English (in the senses ‘show honor to (God’) and ‘make greater’): from Old French magnifier or Latin magnificare, based on Latin magnus ‘great’. magnify (sense 1) dates from the mid 17th century.
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