Mary vs Vary - What's the difference?
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* 1821 Lord Byron, Don Juan : Canto the Fifth: IV:
* 1830 Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Cottage Names :
* 1905 , Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway , Mary is a Grand Old Name ( a song)
The Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ.
* :
The 19th sura (chapter) of the Quran
Any of several other women in the New Testament, notably Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha.
* :
(Ireland, dated) A middle name for a male, given in honour of the Virgin Mary.
To change with time or a similar parameter.
To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.
* Waller
* Dryden
Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.
* Addison
(of the members of a group) To display differences.
To be or act different from the usual.
To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Milton
(music) To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See variation .
(obsolete) To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension.
* Webster (1623)
(obsolete) Alteration; change.
As nouns the difference between mary and vary
is that mary is (gay slang|chiefly|us) a male homosexual while vary is (obsolete) alteration; change.As a verb vary is
to change with time or a similar parameter.mary
English
(wikipedia Mary)Proper noun
(Marys)- I have a passion for the name of Mary , / For once it was a magic sound to me: / And still it half calls up the realm of fairy / Where I beheld what never was to be.
- Mary , which is as common as a white violet, and like that has something indestructibly sweet and simple, and fit for all wear, high or low, suits the cottage or the palace, the garden or the field, the pretty and the ugly, the old and the young;
- For it was Mary'; '''Mary''' / Plain as any name can be / But with propriety, society / Will say "Marie". / But it was '''Mary'''; ' Mary / Long before the fashions came / And there's something there that sounds so square / It's a grand old name.
- Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
- Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Usage notes
* The given name was considered too sacred to use before the end of the 12th century. It was very popular from the 17th to the 20th century.Derived terms
* Marian * Bloody Mary * Mary Ann * Mary JaneCoordinate terms
* AminaAnagrams
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English
Verb
(en-verb)- He varies his magic tricks so as to minimize the possibility that any given audience member will see the same trick twice.
- You should vary your diet. Eating just bread will do you harm in the end.
- Gods, that never change their state, / Vary oft their love and hate.
- We are to vary the customs according to the time and country where the scene of action lies.
- His mood varies by the hour.
- The sine function varies between &
- x2212;1 and 1.
- While fear and anger, with alternate grace, / Pant in her breast, and vary in her face.
- ''The sprouting tendency of potatoes varies between cultivars, years and places of growing.
- I'm not comfortable with
3.Nc3in the Caro-Kann, so I decided to vary and playexd5.
- God hath varied their inclinations.
- God hath here / Varied his bounty so with new delights.
- the rich jewel which we vary for
Noun
(-)- (Shakespeare)
