Varies vs Evolves - What's the difference?
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(vary)
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.
(evolve)
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To move in regular procession through a system.
* Sir M. Hale
* (William Whewell) (1794-1866)
* (w) (1819-1885)
To change, transform, develop.
* 1939 , , Uncle Fred in the Springtime
(biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
As verbs the difference between varies and evolves
is that varies is third-person singular of vary while evolves is third-person singular of evolve.varies
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(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
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- The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.
- The principles which art involves, science alone evolves .
- Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
- You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}