Verb

(en verb)

To change greatly the appearance or form of.

The alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.

* Shakespeare

Love may transform me to an oyster.

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To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.

* Bible, Romans xii. 2

Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

(mathematics) To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.

(electricity) To subject to the action of a transformer.

(genetics) To subject (a cell) to transformation.

To undergo a transformation.

Verb

(en-verb)

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.

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.

* Waller

Gods, that never change their state, / Vary oft their love and hate.

* Dryden

We are to vary the customs according to the time and country where the scene of action lies.

Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.

His mood varies by the hour.

The sine function varies between &

x2212;1 and 1.

* Addison

While fear and anger, with alternate grace, / Pant in her breast, and vary in her face.

(of the members of a group) To display differences.

''The sprouting tendency of potatoes varies between cultivars, years and places of growing.

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.

To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.

* Sir Thomas Browne

God hath varied their inclinations.

* Milton

God hath here / Varied his bounty so with new delights.

(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)

the rich jewel which we vary for