Vary vs Distinct - What's the difference?
vary | distinct |
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.
Capable of being perceived very clearly.
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, chapter=13 Noticeably different from others; distinctive.
Separate in place; not conjunct or united; with from .
* Clarendon
(obsolete) Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.
* Milton
(obsolete) Marked; variegated.
* Spenser
In obsolete terms the difference between vary and distinct
is that vary is alteration; change while distinct is marked; variegated.As a verb vary
is to change with time or a similar parameter.As a noun vary
is alteration; change.As an adjective distinct is
capable of being perceived very clearly.vary
English
Verb
(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
Noun
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Adjective
(en adjective)Fenella Saunders
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- The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct .
- Wherever thus created — for no place / Is yet distinct by name.
- The which [place] was dight / With divers flowers distinct with rare delight.
