to vary

  • 31vary —   Loli a e, pūlewa; anini (rare).   To vary in appearance, kūhapa; mikololia (rare).   To vary in color or texture, kipona …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 32vary — verb (varied; varying) Etymology: Middle English varien, from Anglo French or Latin; Anglo French varier, from Latin variare, from varius various Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to make a partial change in ; make different in some… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 33vary — [14] Latin varius meant ‘speckled, variegated, changeable’ (it gave English various [16], and may have been related to Latin vārus ‘bent, crooked, knock kneed’, source of English prevaricate). It had a range of derivatives, which have given… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 34vary — verb (varies, varying, varied) 1》 differ in size, degree, or nature from something else of the same general class: the properties vary in price. 2》 change from one form or state to another.     ↘modify or change (something) to make it less… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 35vary — To alter; to modify. To change to something else. Power given to trustees to invest and reinvest the trust funds and to vary the securities has been held to authorize the trustees to change the investment from one form of securities to another.… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 36vary — [14] Latin varius meant ‘speckled, variegated, changeable’ (it gave English various [16], and may have been related to Latin vārus ‘bent, crooked, knock kneed’, source of English prevaricate). It had a range of derivatives, which have given… …

    Word origins

  • 37vary — 1. verb a) To change with time. b) Not to remain constant. See Also: variability, variable, variance, variant …

    Wiktionary

  • 38vary-revary — (va ri re va ri) À la chasse, ce que l on crie aux chiens quand l animal a fait un retour, Almanach du chasseur …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 39vary — Synonyms and related words: accommodate, adapt, adjust, agree to disagree, alter, alternate, ameliorate, analyze, anatomize, atomize, back and fill, be at cross purposes, be changed, be converted into, be distinct, be distinguished, be renewed,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 40vary — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. change, alter; fluctuate; differ, disagree; diversify. See difference, discord, disagreement. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To show changes] Syn. dissent, diverge, differ, deviate, digress, swerve, depart,… …

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