vary
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verb- 1.
(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.
- 2.
(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.
a. 1687, Edmund Waller, to Phyllis Gods, that never change their state, / Vary oft their love and hate.
- 3.
(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.
- 4.
(intransitive)(of the members of a group, intransitive) To display differences.
The sprouting tendency of potatoes varies between cultivars, years and places of growing.
- 5.
(intransitive)To be or act different from the usual.
I'm not comfortable with 3.Nc3 in the Caro-Kann, so I decided to vary and play exd5.
- 6.
(transitive)To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversify; to variegate.
- 7.
(transitive)(transitive, music) To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See variation.
- 8.
(intransitive, obsolete)To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension.
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noun- 1.
(obsolete, uncountable)alteration; change.
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From Middle English varien, from Old French varier, from Latin variō (to change, alter, make different), from varius (different, various); see various.