vary
Verb
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Become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence (synset 200122978)
"her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season"subtypes:
- alternate, jump - go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- crackle - to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks
- modulate - vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)
- avianise, avianize - to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo
- move - go or proceed from one point to another
- accommodate, adapt - make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- let out, widen - make (clothes) larger
- take in - make (clothes) smaller
- branch out, broaden, diversify - vary in order to spread risk or to expand
- diversify, radiate - spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate
- narrow, narrow down, specialise, specialize - become more focused on an area of activity or field of study
- honeycomb - make full of cavities, like a honeycomb
- break - vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
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Be at variance with;
Be out of line with (synset 202667330)is a type of: differ - be differentsubtypes:- aberrate - diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration
- aberrate - diverge from the expected
- belie, contradict, negate - be in contradiction with
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Be subject to change in accordance with a variable (synset 202668375)
"Prices vary"; "His moods vary depending on the weather"is a type of: differ - be different
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Make something more diverse and varied (synset 200437832)
"Vary the menu"is a type of: diversify - make (more) diverse
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