Definition of Multiply

Multiply

To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication.

To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy.

To become greater in number; to become numerous.

To increase in extent and influence; to spread.

To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy.

Related Definitions:

Add, Alchemy, Amount, And, Any, Become, By, Certain, Extent, Find, Given, Gold, In, Increase, Influence, Itself, Make, More, Multiplication, Multiplied, Multiply, Note, Number, Numbers, Numerous, Of, Or, Product, Quantity, See, Silver, Spread, The, Thus, Times, To, Two, Under

Multiply Quotations

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.
Woody Allen

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
Erma Bombeck

But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
Lewis Carroll

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Ovid

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
David Herbert Lawrence

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.
Audre Lorde

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
Pope Paul VI

When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.
Indra Nooyi

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
Martin C. Smith

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
Edward R. Murrow

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
Zane Grey

Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
Fatos Nano

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.
Martha Reeves

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.
Edward Grey

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
J. G. Ballard

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
Daniel De Leon

People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
Ralph Regula

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.
Gilbert Highet

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.
Anna C. Brackett

More Multiply Quotations

Multiply Translations

multiply in Danish is multiplicere
multiply in Dutch is multipliceren, vermenigvuldigen
multiply in French is multipliez, multiplions, multiplier, multiplient
multiply in German is multiplizieren, mutiplizieren
multiply in Italian is moltiplicare
multiply in Portuguese is multiplique

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.