Meaning

4 senses
  1. (colloquial, usually)To amplify.

    He asked the disk jockey to amp it up.

    steigern, aufdrehen

  2. (colloquial, usually)To excite.

    Well you're very amped up today, what's got you so excited?

    antreiben, aufputschen

  3. (colloquial, usually)To intensify or increase.

    2014, Andy Paul, Amp Up Your Sales, AMACOM Books

    verstärken, hochtreiben

  4. (colloquial, usually)To connect to amplifiers.

Examples

12 sentences
  1. This is the best amp currently being sold.

    deDas ist der beste Verstärker, der zurzeit verkauft wird.

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  2. It's not the volts that kill you, it's the amps.

    Вбивають не вольти, а ампери.

    ruУбивают не вольты, а амперы.

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  3. I don't usually use an amp when I'm practicing my guitar.

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  4. Electric current is measured in amps.

    ruСила тока измеряется в амперах.

    deDie elektrische Stromstärke wird in Ampere gemessen.

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  5. This is the best amp being sold now.

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Translations

1 languages
Deutsch
to amplify:
to excite:
to intensify:

Forms

amps, amping, amped, amped
Base formamp · to amp
3rd person singularamps
Present participleamping
Past simpleamped
Past participleamped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyamp
he, she, itamps

Past simpleLesson

all personsamped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave amped
he, she, ithas amped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill amp

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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