Diversify
[daɪ'vɜːsɪfaɪ;dɪ-] or [daɪ'vɝsɪfaɪ]
Definition
(verb.) vary in order to spread risk or to expand; 'The company diversified'.
(verb.) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate; 'The plants on this island diversified'.
(verb.) make (more) diverse; 'diversify a course of study'.
Typed by Aldo--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
Typed by Frank
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Variegate, vary, make different, give variety to.[2]. Dapple, spot.
Editor: Olivia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Vary, alter, change_modify, variegate
ANT:Conserve, prosecute, stabilitate, settle, fix, stereotype, crystallize, arrest
Typist: Stephanie
Definition
v.t. to make diverse or different: to give variety to:—pr.p. diver′sifying; pa.p. diver′sified.—adj. Diversifī′able.—n. Diversificā′tion.—adj. Diver′siform of diverse or various forms.
Inputed by Josiah
Examples
- The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animals become, the more places they will be enabled to occupy. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A set of animals, with their organisation but little diversified, could hardly compete with a set more perfectly diversified in structure. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A walk was in itself a new enjoyment to him, and one that had rarely diversified his life afar off. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I will give one other instance: for this subject of the same end being gained by the most diversified means well deserves attention. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- We thus see that these naturalised plants are of a highly diversified nature. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The same, but diversified, it grew, and swept onwards towards the absorbing ocean, whose dim shores we now reached. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I will now give two or three instances, both of diversified and of changed habits, in the individuals of the same species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Editor: Lorna