Diversified
[daɪ'vɜːsɪfaɪd] or [dɪ'vɝsɪfaɪd]
Definition
(adj.) having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety; 'a diversified musical program ranging from classical to modern'; 'diversified farming'; 'diversified manufacturing'; 'diversified scenery'; 'diversified investments' .
Typed by Elbert--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.
(imp. & p. p.) of Diversify
Edited by Adrian
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.
- As animated, as diversified, as social, but with circumstances of superiority undescribable. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The results of the various, unknown, or but dimly understood laws of variation are infinitely complex and diversified. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Edited by Adrian