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Diversify vs Counterchange - What's the difference?

diversify | counterchange |

As verbs the difference between diversify and counterchange

is that diversify is to make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects while counterchange is to give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.

As a noun counterchange is

(obsolete) an exchange of one thing for another.

diversify

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.

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    counterchange

    English

    Verb

    (counterchang)
  • To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
  • To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.
  • * Tennyson
    • Witch-elms that counterchange the floor / Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An exchange of one thing for another.
  • (obsolete) Due return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ix:
    • But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse [...].

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