Word Meanings - MULTIPLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To add 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 by the arts of alchemy. Multiplying
Additional info about word: MULTIPLY
To add 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 by the arts of alchemy. Multiplying gear , gear for increasing speed. -- Multiplying lens. See under Lens. (more info) 1. To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to. Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience. Ames.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MULTIPLY)
- Abound
- Stream
- swell
- flow
- increase
- overflow
- superabound
- luxuriate
- teem
- swarm
- flourish
- prevail
- be plentiful
- wanton
- revel
- multiply
- Amplify
- Enrich
- enlarge
- augment
- dilate
- develop
- expatiate
- expand
- discuss
- unfold
- extend
- Divide
- Separate
- dissect
- bisect
- portio
- part
- divorce
- segregate
- sever
- sunder
- deal out
- disunite
- keep apart
- part among
- allot
- distribute
- Propagate
- Breed
- generate
- produce
- originate
- spread
- disseminate
- diffuse
- promulgate
- propound
- broach
- Redouble
- Augment
- intensify
- reiterate
Related words: (words related to MULTIPLY)
- BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - OVERFLOWINGLY
In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle. - BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - SPREADINGLY
, adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton. - INTENSIFY
To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow. - WANTON
wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness." - DIVORCEABLE
Capable of being divorced. - DIVIDER
An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters. - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - ALLOTTABLE
Capable of being allotted. - PLENTIFUL
1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal. - BREADEN
Made of bread. - DIVIDEND
A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated - REVELLENT
Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - DISSECT
To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize. 2. To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; - ALLOTRIOPHAGY
A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food. - ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - BREADBASKET
The stomach. S. Foote. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - PERSEVERANCE
Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info) - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - LIBRETTO
A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves. - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.