Vary vs Wrangle - 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.
To bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
to herd horses or other livestock
To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
* Bishop Robert Sanderson
Vary is a related term of wrangle.
In lang=en terms the difference between vary and wrangle
is that vary is to make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate while wrangle is to involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.As verbs the difference between vary and wrangle
is that vary is to change with time or a similar parameter while wrangle is to bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily.As nouns the difference between vary and wrangle
is that vary is (obsolete) alteration; change while wrangle is an act of wrangling.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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English
Verb
(wrangl)- For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle .
- He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points.
- When we have wrangled ourselves as long as our wits and strengths will serve us, the honest, downright sober English Protestant will be found in the end the man that walketh in the safest way, and by the surest line.
- I don't know how, but she managed to wrangle us four front row seats at tonight's game.
