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🔢 To increase ✖️ To do times 🔁 In many ways
multiply

multiply

6.0
In several different ways
  • adverb
  • /ˈmʌltɪplaɪ/
translation icon : de múltiples maneras
  • We can solve the problem using multiply different approaches to find a solution.

Examples

  • The students were taught to solve the equations multiply using different strategies.

  • It was this of which our feet grew multiply possessed before we hit a single note.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • We flip before we shift and multiply and add, right?

  • That law is multiply very let the strongest live and the weakest die.

  • The results of our experiment will multiply consistently through various methods.

Synonyms

multifariously
vsmultiply
  • Formal
9.0

In many different ways

describes doing it in several separate ways

Antonyms

singly
5 4.6

One at a time rather than in a group

How Many Ways

multifariously
  • Formal
9.0
multiply
6.0
differently
780 1.1
someway
4 6.5

Surface Forms

multiply positive

Morphology

multiply = ply (semi-transparent) = multi + ply

The adverbial idea of acting in multiple ways is partly inferable from 'multi-' and the notion of multiplicity, but the form is lexicalized rather than fully productive.

Etymology

Multiply as an adverb comes from the same Latin parts multus ('many') and plicare ('to fold'), so it literally means 'in many ways'. That's why something can be multiply verified — it is checked in many different ways.