magnified
part of speech
adjective (magnified); past form of the verb magnify (magnify, magnifies, magnified, magnifying)
meaning for a pupil
1) Made to look bigger than it really is, using a lens, microscope or magnifying glass. tree →
2) Made louder, stronger or more serious than before. tree →
3) Made to seem more important than it really is; exaggerated. tree →
4) (church, Bible) Praised; «magnify the Lord» means praise God. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons, pupils look at magnified cells, insects and crystals, and learn that «× 10» means magnified ten times. In everyday life, worries and noises can be magnified. In church, the Magnificat, Mary's song, begins «My soul magnifies the Lord». Phrases: magnified × 100, magnified image, greatly magnified.
examples
- Under the microscope, the onion cells were magnified 100 times. tree →
- The magnified picture of a fly's eye was amazing. tree →
- The ant looked huge when magnified. tree →
- In the empty hall, every sound was magnified. tree →
- The problem got magnified because everyone was shouting. tree →
- The magnifying glass magnified the tiny letters. tree →
- «My soul magnifies the Lord,» sang the choir. tree →
- "Look in this glass, Gerda," said he; and she saw how every flake of snow was magnified, and looked like a beautiful flower or a glittering star. tree →
note
Spelling: magnify → magnified, magnifies (y → i). Noun: magnification. In maths and science, «magnified × 20» means 20 times bigger in length; to find the real size, divide the image size by the magnification.
In the corpora
- And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.
- And ye have magnified yourselves against Me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against Me; I have heard it.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «magnified» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.