Amp

Common synonyms include: ampere, a, adenosine monophosphate, adenosine monophosphate, adenylic acid, adp.

//æmp// name, noun, verb, slang

name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1
Clipping of ampere. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable
2
Initialism of adenosine monophosphate. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
3
the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites wordnet
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Clipping of amplifier. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable
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Initialism of antimicrobial peptide. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

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a nucleotide found in muscle cells and important in metabolism; reversibly convertible to ADP and ATP wordnet
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Clipping of ampoule. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable
"The physician had included a note which said: "Dear Miss ........, I could not get the name of your friend over the phone so I am sending two prescriptions for Methedrine amps and one prescription for Drinalfa ten cc vials."
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Initialism of accelerated mobile page. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"That strict nature of the AMP HTML means that attention to detail is necessary. The pages must be properly validated in order to function every time — and in order to amp up your place in Google's rankings, your AMP site must function every time."
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Clipping of amputee. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable
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Initialism of Asian massage parlor. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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Clipping of amphetamine. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, uncountable
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Clipping of ampicillin. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, uncountable
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Clipping of ampersand. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable

Verb

1
To amplify. colloquial, usually, with-up
"He asked the disk jockey to amp it up."
2
To excite. colloquial, usually, with-up
"Well you're very amped up today, what's got you so excited?"
3
To intensify or increase. colloquial, usually, with-up
"Amping the Justin Timberlake cameos and revving up Jiggytron 5000, these Peas want to be on Middle America's fickle plate — losing little dread-whippin' imaginativeness in the wizzash."
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To connect to amplifiers. colloquial, usually, with-up
"and even the Velvet Underground were still only amping up conventional instruments"