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# magnified

«magnified» in Mova's school dictionary: **Made to look bigger than it really is, using a lens…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnified/#m1)

2) Made louder, stronger or more serious than before. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnified/#m2)

3) Made to seem more important than it really is; exaggerated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnified/#m3)

4) (church, Bible) Praised; «magnify the Lord» means praise God. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnified/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnified/#x1)
- The magnified picture of a fly's eye was amazing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnified/#x2)
- The ant looked huge when magnified. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnified/#x3)
- In the empty hall, every sound was magnified. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnified/#x4)
- The problem got magnified because everyone was shouting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnified/#x5)
- The magnifying glass magnified the tiny letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnified/#x6)
- «My soul magnifies the Lord,» sang the choir. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnified/#x7)
- "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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnified/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1278/)
- [And ye have magnified yourselves against Me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against Me; I have heard it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.927/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «magnified» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnified/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.