Vary vs Turn - What's the difference?
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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.
(lb) Non-linear physical movement.
# (lb) Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
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# (lb) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
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, title= # (lb) To change one's direction of travel.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
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, title= # To change the course of.
# (lb) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
# (lb) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# (lb) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
# Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
# Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
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To change condition or attitude.
# To become (begin to be).
#* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 21, author=Jonathan Jurejko, work=BBC Sport
, title= # To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
# To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
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, title= ## (lb) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
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## (lb) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
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# To hinge; to depend.
#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
# To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
# To change personal condition.
## (lb) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa .
## To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
##* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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## To sicken; to nauseate.
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## To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
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To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) VII:
* Bible, (w) xxxii. 12
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
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To complete.
Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's .
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 5, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
(lb) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
(lb) To translate.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
A change of direction or orientation.
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A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
A single loop of a coil.
A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
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One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
(also turnaround ) The time required to complete a project.
A fit or a period of giddiness.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
*:"Then you must know as well as the rest of us that there was something queer about that gentleman—something that gave a man a turn —I don't know rightly how to say it, sir, beyond this: that you felt in your marrow kind of cold and thin."
A change in temperament or circumstance.
(lb) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
(lb) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
A deed done to another.
(lb) A pass behind or through an object.
Character; personality; nature.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life), Ch.VII:
(lb) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
In transitive terms the difference between vary and turn
is that vary is to make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate while turn is to make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.In intransitive terms the difference between vary and turn
is that vary is to be or act different from the usual while turn is to sour or spoil; to go bad.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
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- 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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Verb
(en verb)- It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned , and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- The poet's pen turns them to shapes.
- He was perfectly well turned for trade.
- His limbs how turned , how broad his shoulders spread!
Newcastle 3-0 Stoke, passage=The midfielder turned provider moments later, his exquisite reverse pass perfectly weighted for Cisse to race on to and slide past Stoke keeper Asmir Begovic.}}
- At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
- Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of war.
- I'll look no more; / Lest my brain turn .
- And they made a calfe in those dayes, and offered sacrifice unto the ymage, and reioysed in the workes of theyr awne hondes. Then God turned himsilfe, and gave them up
- Turn from thy fierce wrath.
- The understanding turns inward on itself, and reflects on its own operations.
- Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=Liverpool introduced Carroll for Spearing and were rewarded after 64 minutes when he put them back in contention. Stewart Downing blocked Jose Bosingwa's attempted clearance, which fell into the path of Carroll. He turned John Terry superbly before firing high past Cech.}}
- who turns a Persian tale for half a crown
Synonyms
* (move around an axis through itself) rotate, spin, twirl * (change the direction or orientation of) rotate * (qualifier, change one's direction of travel): steer, swerve, tack * (nautical) * : * (become) become, get, go * (rebel) rebel, revolt * (shape on a lathe) lathe * (go bad) go bad, go off, sour, spoil * (complete) completeDerived terms
* turn a phrase * turn about * turn against * turn around * turn away * turn back * turn in one's grave * turn down * turn heads * turn home * turn in * turn into * turn inward * turn loose * turn off * turn on * turn on one's heel * turn out * turn over * turn round * turn someone's crank * turn someone's head * turn tail * turn the other cheek * turn the tables * turn the tide * turn to * turn to stone * turn tricks * turn up * turn upside downNoun
(en noun)- With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, wherelay the good ship, Mount Vernon , river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a shoulder.
- With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, wherelay the good ship, Mount Vernon , river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a shoulder.
- It was fortunate for his comfort, perhaps, that the man who had been chosen to accompany him was of a talkative turn , for the prisoners insisted upon hearing the story of the explosion a dozen times over, and Rufus Dawes himself had been roused to give the name of the vessel with his own lips.