Variety vs Brighten - What's the difference?
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The quality of being varied; diversity.
A specific variation of something.
A number of different things.
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, title= A state of constant change.
(taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, below species and subspecies.
(cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
(cybernetics) Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
(linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect, accent, register, etc. and to its prestige level.
The class of all algebraic structures of a given signature satisfying a given set of identities.
(lb) To make bright or brighter in color.
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(lb) To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:The present queen would brighten her character, if she would exert her authority to instill virtues into her people.
To make more cheerful and pleasant; to enliven
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*(Ambrose Philips) (1674-1749)
*:An ecstasy, which mothers only feel, / Plays round my heart and brightens all my sorrow.
(lb) To grow bright, or more bright in color; to clear up
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(lb) To become brighter or more cheerful in mood
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*:Then his sallow face brightened , for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
To make acute or witty; to enliven.
:(Johnson)
As a noun variety
is the quality of being varied; diversity.As a verb brighten is
(lb) to make bright or brighter in color.variety
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Alternative forms
* (rare)Noun
(varieties)Ecological Dependency, passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.}}