Variable vs Giddy - What's the difference?
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Able to vary.
Likely to vary.
* Shakespeare
Marked by diversity or difference.
(mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value.
(biology) Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.
Something that is .
Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
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, title= (mathematics) A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
(mathematics) A symbol representing a variable.
(programming) A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
(astronomy) A variable star.
(nautical) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
(nautical, in the plural) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
Dizzy, feeling dizzy or unsteady and as if about to fall down.
Causing dizziness: causing dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness.
Lightheartedly silly, or joyfully elated.
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, title=
, chapter=2 (archaic) Frivolous, impulsive, inconsistent, changeable.
* 1599 ,
* 1784 , , Tirocinium; or, A Review of Schools
(obsolete) To make dizzy or unsteady.
To reel; to whirl.
Variable is a related term of giddy.
As a noun variable
is variable.As an adjective giddy is
dizzy, feeling dizzy or unsteady and as if about to fall down.As a verb giddy is
(obsolete|transitive) to make dizzy or unsteady.variable
English
(wikipedia variable)Adjective
(en adjective)- variable''' winds or seasons; a '''variable quantity
- Lest that thy love prove likewise variable .
Synonyms
* (able to vary) alterable, flexible, changeable, mutable * (likely to vary) fickle, fluctuating, inconstant, shifting, unstable, unsteady * (marked by diversity or difference) varying * aberrantAntonyms
* (able to vary) constant, invariable, immutable, unalterable, unchangeable * (likely to vary) constant, invariable, immutable, unchangeable * (marked by diversity or difference) unchanging * constant, invariableDerived terms
* variability * variablenessNoun
(en noun)Katie L. Burke
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Synonyms
* (something that is variable) changeable * (something whose value may be dictated or discovered) parameter * variable quantityAntonyms
* (something that is variable) constant, invariableHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* bound variable * categorical variable * continuous variable * dependent variable * discrete variable * flow variable * free variable * global variable * independent variable * instance variable * interval variable * local variable * member variable * metasyntactic variable * nominal variable * ordinal variable * ratio variable * stock variable * variable star * variably * varySee also
* argument * variateExternal links
* * * ----giddy
English
Adjective
(er)- The man became giddy upon standing up so fast.
- They climbed to a giddy height.
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- The boy was giddy when he opened his birthday presents.
- In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never flout at me for what I have said against it, for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
- Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm,
- And make mistakes for manhood to reform.
Synonyms
* dizzyDerived terms
* giddinessSee also
* vertiginousVerb
- (Chapman)