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"word": "ever-varying"
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{
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{
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"text": "He varies his magic tricks so as to minimize the possibility that any given audience member will see the same trick twice.",
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"(transitive) To change with time or a similar parameter."
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"word": "გამოცვლა"
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"text": "You should vary your diet. Eating just bread will do you harm in the end.",
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},
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"text": "a. 1687, Edmund Waller, to Phyllis\nGods, that never change their state, / Vary oft their love and hate."
}
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"To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify."
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"(transitive) To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify."
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"text": "His mood varies by the hour.",
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{
"text": "The sine function varies between −1 and 1.",
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"Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter."
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"(intransitive) Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter."
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"word": "ვარირება"
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"word": "ცვლილება"
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"_dis1": "2 2 83 3 2 5 3 2",
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"sense": "not to remain constant",
"word": "verändern"
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"sense": "not to remain constant",
"word": "variō"
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"sense": "not to remain constant",
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"_dis1": "2 2 83 3 2 5 3 2",
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"word": "variar"
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"sense": "not to remain constant",
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"text": "The sprouting tendency of potatoes varies between cultivars, years and places of growing.",
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{
"ref": "1960 February, “The modernisation of Peterborough”, in Trains Illustrated, page 108",
"text": "In the new layout, it is proposed to provide three island platforms with six platform faces varying from 1,075 to 1,290 ft. in length and including bays.",
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"(of the members of a group, intransitive) To display differences."
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"roman": "različavam se",
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"word": "различавам се"
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"_dis1": "3 2 4 71 2 6 5 6",
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"text": "I'm not comfortable with 3.Nc3 in the Caro-Kann, so I decided to vary and play exd5.",
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"(intransitive) To be or act different from the usual."
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to act different from usual",
"word": "tītaha"
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"To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate."
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"(transitive) To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate."
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"(transitive, music) To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See variation."
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"ref": "1623, John Webster, The Devil's Law Case",
"text": "the rich jewel which we vary for",
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"To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension."
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension."
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