English > vary: 4 senses > verb 1, changeMeaning | Become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics / characteristics or essence. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
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Synonyms | change, alter |
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Narrower | adapt, accommodate | make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose |
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alternate, jump | go back and forth |
avianize, avianise | To modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo |
break | Vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity |
crackle | To become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks |
diversify, branch out, broaden | Vary in order to spread risk or to expand |
diversify, radiate | Spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate |
honeycomb | make full of cavities, like a honeycomb |
let out, widen | make (clothes) larger / larger |
modulate | Vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic / characteristic of (electromagnetic waves) |
move | Go or proceed from one point to another |
specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down | Become more focus on an area of activity or field of study |
take in | make (clothes) smaller |
Spanish | alterar, cambiar, mudar, transformar, variar |
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Catalan | alterar-se, alterar, canviar, desfigurar-se, desfigurar, mudar, reformar, transformar-se, transformar, variar |
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Adjectives | variable | liable to or capable of change |
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variable | marked by diversity or difference |
variant | differing from a norm or standard |
Nouns | variant, variation | something a little different from others of the same type |
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English > vary: 4 senses > verb 2, stativeMeaning | Be at variance with; be out of line with. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
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Synonyms | deviate, diverge, depart |
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Narrower | aberrate | diverge or deviate from the straight path |
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aberrate | diverge from the expected |
contradict, belie, negate | Be in contradiction with |
Broader | differ | Be different |
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Opposite | conform | Be similar, be in line with |
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Spanish | desviar, divergir, variar |
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Catalan | divergir, variar |
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Adjectives | variant | differing from a norm or standard |
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Nouns | variant | an event that departs from expectations |
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variation, variance | an activity that varies from a norm or standard |
variation | (biology) an organism that has characteristics / characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration |
variation | (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon) |