vary
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
vary
- (transitive) To change with time or a similar parameter.
- He varies his magic tricks so as to minimize the possibility that any given audience member will see the same trick twice.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, London: W. Rogers, p. 201,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007657188 ↗
- We are to vary the customs according to the time and country where the scene of action lies.
- (transitive) To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.
- You should vary your diet. Eating just bread will do you harm in the end.
- Gods, that never change their state, / Vary oft their love and hate.
- (intransitive) Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.
- His mood varies by the hour.
- The sine function varies between −1 and 1.
- 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, published 1712, [Act 3, scene 1]:
- While fear and anger, with alternate grace, / Pant in her breast, and vary in her face.
- (of the members of a group, intransitive) To display differences.
- The sprouting tendency of potatoes varies between cultivars, years and places of growing.
- (intransitive) To be or act different from the usual.
- I'm not comfortable with
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- (transitive) To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.
- God hath varied their inclinations.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 5”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- God hath here / Varied his bounty so with new delights.
- (transitive, music) To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See variation.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension.
- the rich jewel which we vary for
- (institute a change in) alter, change; See also Thesaurus:alter
- (not to remain constant) fluctuate
- (display differences) See also Thesaurus:differ
- (make of different kinds) See also Thesaurus:diversify
- (disagree) dissent, take exception
- Portuguese: variar
- Portuguese: variar
vary (uncountable)
- (obsolete) alteration; change.
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