Multiply - English meaning

verb

Gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of.

Usage examples:

Investigators have yet to accumulate enough evidence

verb

To collect a large number of things over a long period of time

Usage examples:

As people accumulate more wealth, they tend to spend a greater proportion of their incomes., the co…

verb

To gradually increase in number or amount

Usage examples:

A thick layer of dust had accumulated in the room., if you don't go through the papers on your desk…

verb

Begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish.

Usage examples:

The city's suburbs have burgeoned, sprawling out from the centre

noun

A bud or young shoot.

verb

To develop or grow quickly

Usage examples:

Product placement has burgeoned to the extent that corporate logos are now found in most mainstream…

verb

Become or make larger or more extensive.

Usage examples:

Their business expanded into other hotels

verb

Extend in one or more directions

verb

To increase something in size, number, or importance

Usage examples:

[ i ] the air in the balloon expands when heated., [ t ] they expanded their number of stores signi…

verb

(of a living thing) undergo natural development by increasing in size and changing physically.

Usage examples:

He would watch nick grow to manhood

verb

Increase in size by natural process

verb

To increase in size or amount, or to become more advanced or developed

Usage examples:

Children grow so quickly., this plant grows best in the shade., she's grown three centimetres this …

verb

Become or make greater in size, amount, or degree.

Usage examples:

Car use is increasing at an alarming rate

noun

A rise in the size, amount, or degree of something.

Usage examples:

An increase of 28.3 per cent

verb

A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous

noun

A fungal growth that typically takes the form of a domed cap on a stalk, with gills on the underside of the cap.

Usage examples:

She sautéd the mushrooms in butter

verb

Increase, spread, or develop rapidly.

Usage examples:

Environmental concern mushroomed in the 1960s

noun

Any one of many types of fast-growing fungus (= plants without leaves or flowers) with a round top and short stem, many of which are used as food

Usage examples:

Wild mushrooms, mushroom soup, a pizza with mushrooms, if your business were to mushroom, would you…

verb

Increase rapidly in number; multiply.

Usage examples:

The science fiction magazines which proliferated in the 1920s

verb

To increase greatly in number or amount, usually quickly

Usage examples:

Amusement and theme parks are proliferating across the country., the proliferation of cell phones h…

noun

A ball of packed snow, especially one made for throwing at other people for fun.

Usage examples:

They pelted him with snowballs

verb

Throw snowballs at.

Usage examples:

I made sure the other kids stopped snowballing celia

noun

Snow pressed into a ball

Usage examples:

Public support for military action has snowballed.

verb

Open out (something) so as to extend its surface area, width, or length.

Usage examples:

I spread a towel on the sand and sat down

noun

The fact or process of spreading over an area.

Usage examples:

Warmer temperatures could help reduce the spread of the disease

verb

Distribute or disperse widely

noun

A sticky yellowish mouldable substance secreted by honeybees as the material of a honeycomb; beeswax.

Usage examples:

In the case of the honeycombs, the worker bees secrete small flakes of wax and probably surround th…

verb

Cover or treat (something) with wax or a similar substance, typically to polish or protect it.

Usage examples:

I washed and waxed the floor

verb

(of the moon between new and full) have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated, increasing its apparent size.

Usage examples:

The moon waxed full, looming huge upon the speckled expanse.