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.
• 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.
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• 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.