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MULTIPLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: multiplied   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant

Example:

These bacteria reproduce

Synonyms:

multiply; procreate; reproduce

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "multiply" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "multiply"):

propagate (multiply sexually or asexually)

fructify; set (bear fruit)

breed; multiply (have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms))

brood; cover; hatch; incubate (sit on (eggs))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

multiplication (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)

Example:

pandas rarely breed in captivity

Synonyms:

breed; multiply

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "multiply" is one way to...):

multiply; procreate; reproduce (have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "multiply"):

pullulate (breed freely and abundantly)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

multiplication (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Combine or increase by multiplication

Example:

He managed to multiply his profits

Synonyms:

manifold; multiply

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "multiply" is one way to...):

increase (make bigger or more)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "multiply"):

double; duplicate (increase twofold)

treble; triple (increase threefold)

quadruple (increase fourfold)

quintuple (increase fivefold)

proliferate (cause to grow or increase rapidly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence examples:

They multiply their earnings this year

Their earnings multiply this year

Derivation:

multiplication (an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed)

multiplication (a multiplicative increase)

multiplicative (tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Combine by multiplication

Example:

multiply 10 by 15

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "multiply" is one way to...):

calculate; cipher; compute; cypher; figure; reckon; work out (make a mathematical calculation or computation)

Domain category:

arithmetic (the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "multiply"):

square (raise to the second power)

cube (raise to the third power)

raise (multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

divide (perform a division)

Derivation:

multiplication (an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed)

multiplicative (tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree)

multiplier (the number by which a multiplicand is multiplied)

 II. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In several ways; in a multiple manner

Example:

they were multiply checked for errors

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

singly (one by one; one at a time)

Pertainym:

multiple (having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The most recently recorded sum of longest diameters minus the lowest sum of longest diameters previously recorded divided by the lowest sum of longest diameters previously recorded, multiplied by 100.

(Percent Change From Nadir in Sum of Longest Diameter, NCI Thesaurus)

The most recently recorded sum of diameters minus the lowest sum of diameters previously recorded divided by the lowest sum of diameters previously recorded, multiplied by 100.

(Percent Change From Nadir in Sum of Diameter, NCI Thesaurus)

The result or product of multiplying dimensions (2 or 3) of a site or specimen.

(Performed Lesion Description Dimension Product, NCI Thesaurus)

NOTE(S): Derived from multiplying at least two (2) of the following: PerformedLesionDescription.xDimension, PerformedLesionDescription.yDimension, PerformedLesionDescription.zDimension.

(Performed Lesion Description Dimension Product, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

In septicemic plague, bacteria multiply in the blood. It causes fever, chills, shock, and bleeding under the skin or other organs.

(Plague, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

It is calculated by multiplying the number of packs of cigarettes smoked per day by the number of years the person has smoked.

(Pack year, NCI Dictionary)

A low level of the degree to which oxygen is bound to hemoglobin given as a percentage calculated by dividing the maximum oxygen capacity into the actual oxygen content and multiplying by 100.

(Low Blood Oxygen Saturation, NCI Thesaurus)

Chemotherapy is drug therapy that can kill these cells or stop them from multiplying.

(Cancer Chemotherapy, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

The result or product of multiplying dimensions.

(Dimension Product, NCI Thesaurus)

The drugs inhibit the ability of the virus to multiply in the body, and they slow down the development of AIDS.

(HAART, NCI Dictionary)