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Diversify vs Veer - What's the difference?

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Diversify is a related term of veer.


In lang=en terms the difference between diversify and veer

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 veer is to turn.

As verbs the difference between diversify and veer

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 veer is (obsolete|nautical) to let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out or veer can be to change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.

As a noun veer is

a turn or swerve; an instance of veering.

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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    veer

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , volume 12:
  • *:As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) virer.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
    • The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
  • * (rfdate), Dryden:
    • And as he leads, the following navy veers .
  • * (rfdate), Burke:
    • An ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high.}}
  • (of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).Bowditch 2002
  • (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
  • (nautical) To change direction into the wind; to ship.
  • To turn.
    • Antonyms
    * back * haul forward

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