English > vary: 4 senses > verb 1, change| Meaning | 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, stative| Meaning | 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) |
