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

Verb

(differentiat)

To show, or be the distinction between two things.

* Earle

The word "then" was differentiated into the two forms "then" and "than".

* {{quote-book, year=1933

, passage=The mass of the rich and poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. , author=George Orwell, title=Down and Out in Paris and London, chapter=Ch. XXII, page=120, publisher=Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition}}

To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.

* {{quote-book, title=, year=1964

, passage=he refused to instruct that actual intent to harm or recklessness had to be found before punitive damages could be awarded, or that a verdict for respondent should differentiate between compensatory and punitive damages.}}

(intransitive) To modify, or be modified.

(mathematics) To calculate the derivative of a function.

(mathematics) To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.

(biology) To produce distinct organs or to achieve specific functions by a process of development called differentiation.

* {{quote-book, title=, year=1930, author=Robert Evans Snodgrass

, passage=In Chapter IV we learned that every animal consists of a body, or soma, formed of cells that are differentiated from the germ cells usually at an early stage of development.}}