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Tic (health) and multiply(2) (iou)


Tic (health)


An involuntary, sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic, stereotyped motor movement or vocalization.









multiply(2) (iou)



multiply verb. ME.
[Old & mod. French multiplier from Latin multiplicare, from multiplic-, MULTIPLEX: see -Y2.]
verb trans. Cause to become of great(er) number or quantity; increase or augment by accumulation or repetition. Now chiefly as passing into sense 5. ME.
Addison Till into seven it multiplies its stream. Gibbon The activity of the emperor seemed to multiply his presence. Tennyson Thus truth was multiplied on truth.
b. Use or utter a great many (words etc.). arch. ME.
Swift They avoid nothing more than multiplying unnecessary Words.
c. Increase the intensity of; magnify. LME-E19.
J. Cleveland An Optique Glasse contracts the sight At one end, but when turn'd doth multiply 't.
d. Adduce a large number of (instances etc.). E18.
Addison 'Tis unnecessary to multiply Instances of this Nature.
verb trans. Increase (a family etc.) by reproduction or procreation; cause (the earth) to increase in population. ME-L18.
W. Cowper When man was multiplied and spread abroad In tribes and clans.
b. Breed (animals); propagate (plants). L15-M19.
E. Balfour A large Mango multiplied at Mergui.
verb intrans. Become of great(er) number or quantity; be increased or augmented by accumulation or repetition. ME.
H. E. Manning As sin has multiplied in its extent, so it would seem also to have become more intense. G. Swift Stars which seemed to multiply as we looked at them.
verb intrans. Increase in number by reproduction or procreation. ME.
Defoe As for my Cats, they multiply'd.
Math.
a. verb trans. Operate on (a given quantity) with another so as to find a product having the same ratio to the first quantity as the second has to unity; combine (two quantities, expressions, etc.) together by multiplication. (Foll. by by, in, into the second quantity.) LME.
Journal of Zoology Sink speed equals the glide angle multiplied by flight velocity.
b. verb trans. & intrans. Of a quantity: operate on (another quantity) as a multiplier. LME.
c. verb intrans. Perform the process of multiplication. L16.
D. Lardner If we require the area, we have only to multiply by 3.14.
d. verb trans. Perform an operation on (two or more quantities, vectors, etc.) analogous to multiplication, to give a product. E18.
verb trans. & intrans. Alchemy. Transmute base metals into (gold or silver); cause (gold or silver) to increase. LME-L17.
Comb.: multiplying-glass (a) a magnifying glass; (b) (chiefly Hist.) a toy consisting of a faceted concave glass or lens giving numerous reflections of an observed object.