What's the difference between intensify and magnify?

Intensify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.
  • (v. i.) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
  • (2) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
  • (3) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
  • (4) First, SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed an intensified hepatic microsomal polypeptide (MW 54,000) following picloram pretreatment.
  • (5) This effect could be intensified by a preceding treatment of the animal with androgens.
  • (6) In a recent study, Orr and Lanzetta (1984) showed that the excitatory properties of fear facial expressions previously described (Lanzetta & Orr, 1981; Orr & Lanzetta, 1980) do not depend on associative mechanisms; even in the absence of reinforcement, fear faces intensify the emotional reaction to a previously conditioned stimulus and disrupt extinction of an acquired fear response.
  • (7) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
  • (8) Besides, the movement of mitochondria to the neuronal processes is intensified.
  • (9) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government has joined MPs, bloggers and local media in denouncing the newly-released Warner Brothers epic, 300, as a calculated attempt to demonise Iran at a time of intensifying US pressure over the country's nuclear programme.
  • (10) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.
  • (11) Families fear that after April’s disaster the cycle of poverty in the region will be intensified.
  • (12) These data indicate the existence of diverse, proinflammatory interactions of pyocyanin and 1-hp with human phagocytes, which may intensify neutrophil-mediated tissue damage during P. aeruginosa infections.
  • (13) Under identical conditions methandrostenon intensified the proteins synthesis in the nuclear fraction of the liver alone.
  • (14) The resolution also opens the door for other bodies, such as the European Union and the International Criminal Court, to intensify their pressure on Israel to desist from its illegal practices on the West Bank and its war crimes in Gaza.
  • (15) In this state, IPPV did not reduce the blood pressure in the supine position, and did not intensify its fall when the upper body was raised.
  • (16) After 10 months exposure to Fenthion, cellular necrosis and gliosis intensified in the CA4 and CA3 regions and occasionally involved the CA2.
  • (17) So far 34 patients in complete remission have been given one or two courses of the intensified consolidation therapy with high-dose cytosine-arabinoside and daunorubicin.
  • (18) The long-running dispute over the Senkaku islands – known as the Diaoyu in China – intensified earlier this month after Japan nationalised the territories, resulting in violent anti-Japanese demonstrations in dozens of Chinese cities.
  • (19) Two sets of a twin-focus X-ray tube and a 12-inch image intensifier (II) were mounted on the gantry in the isocentric and cross-firing positions.
  • (20) Elsewhere in the brain, minimal involvement of the entorhinal cortex neurons occurred 3 days postexposure and intensified by 7 days.

Magnify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters.
  • (v. t.) To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or respect in which one is held.
  • (v. t.) To praise highly; to land; to extol.
  • (v. t.) To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.
  • (v. i.) To have the power of causing objects to appear larger than they really are; to increase the apparent dimensions of objects; as, some lenses magnify but little.
  • (v. i.) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We purposely watched it that way - to magnify the experience," Kidman says.
  • (2) Equivalent viewing power (EVP), field of view, and working distance (WD) were calculated for 4 different magnifier equivalent powers, four magnifier-to-eye distances, and for uncorrected spherical ametropias varying from +20.00 to -20.00 D in 0.25 D steps.
  • (3) Ordinary details that any mother would recognise have been magnified into major problems.
  • (4) The potential benefits [of AI research] are huge, since everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable,” the letter reads.
  • (5) In an article for the Daily Telegraph , Obama argued that Britain’s influence in the world was magnified by its membership of the EU.
  • (6) These data reject the possibility that albino central vision is similar to normal peripheral vision, but the results are predictable on the hypothesis that the central retina of albinos is a spatially magnified (underdeveloped) version of the normal fovea.
  • (7) On the photographs the pupillary diameter is measured under a magnifying lens.
  • (8) No significant difference was found comparing spectacle lenses or illuminated stand magnifiers with regard to reading duration.
  • (9) To determine the incidence of penile condyloma in a group of high risk males, we have performed magnified penile surface scanning and biopsy of suspicious lesions in 51 men.
  • (10) This is magnified manyfold when the relationship is father and son.
  • (11) The magnified endoscopic view permits selective exposure of blood vessels and prevents injury to the adjacent organs.
  • (12) Combination method of magnification consists in the use of the Visolett in addition to a spectacle magnifier, which doubles the magnification.
  • (13) "The much larger than initially expected economic and fiscal costs of the 11 March earthquake are magnifying the adverse effects imparted by the global financial crisis from which Japan's economy has not completely recovered," Moody's said.
  • (14) Tensions around the world – when magnified by the media and portrayed as strictly part of a religious binary – sow suspicion in the hearts of even the most open-minded.
  • (15) Perhaps another is pop's forever-long obsession with watching women, as if they're ants on a hot patio and you're the boy with the magnifying glass.
  • (16) Buergenthal is a judge on the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and the power of his testimony is magnified by a jurist's coolness and eye for detail.
  • (17) Anterior chamber adapter magnifies the scan for detailed work in the anterior chamber and lens.
  • (18) The results obtained were as follows: 1) More detailed informations regarding to P waves were obtained by means of the high-speed and magnified ECG.
  • (19) The gravimetric density was determined for both left and right lungs by averaging the CT numerical data within lung slices traced on a magnified video image of the thorax.
  • (20) 9.11pm BST A commander of the Free Syrian Army, a key US ally among the opposition, has echoed and magnified Idris' stated opposition to the Russian proposal for dismantling the regime's chemical weapons.