Varying
['vɛəriŋ]
Definition
(adj.) marked by diversity or difference; 'the varying angles of roof slope'; 'nature is infinitely variable' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vary
(-) a. & n. from Vary.
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Examples
- The motors are arranged under the cars in varying forms adapted to the structure of the car. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Commercial fertilizers generally contain nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash in amounts varying with the requirements of the soil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It will be seen, therefore, that this method of duplexing is practiced, not by varying the strength or polarity, but by sending TWO KINDS OF CURRENT over the wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The ability of the eye to adjust itself to varying distances is called accommodation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And the experience of each party loses in meaning, when the free interchange of varying modes of life-experience is arrested. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- On either side of the peninsula the Atlantic in varying mood lies extended in summer sunshine, or from its shroud of mist thunders o n the black cliffs and their time-sculptured sandstones. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Let (A) be a common, widely-diffused, and varying species, belonging to a genus large in its own country. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- What, said Mr. Cruncher, varying his apostrophe after missing his mark--what are you up to, Aggerawayter? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- What, then, would be the orbit of a planet under a central attraction varying as the inverse square of the distance? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The far and the near must be relative, and depend on many varying circumstances. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The atmosphere around us is as restless and varying as is the water of the sea. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Through this valley the river meanders in the most tortuous way, varying in direction to all points of the compass. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- So long as the coil is in motion, it is cut by a varying number of lines of force, and current is induced in the coil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Varying pitches are obtained partly by the varying wind pressure of the musician; if he breathes fast, the pitch rises; if he breathes slowly, the pitch falls. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Take all the varying hates felt by Eustacia Vye towards the heath, and translate them into loves, and you have the heart of Clym. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Her opinion varying with every fresh conjecture, and all seeming equally probable as they arose. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Gunpowder consists of about 75 parts of saltpetre (nitrate of potash), 15 of charcoal, and 10 of sulphur, the proportions varying somewhat with the use to which it is to be applied. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The branching and diverging dotted lines of unequal lengths proceeding from (A), may represent its varying offspring. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Varying degrees of heat and cold always affect a watch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Jo couldn't help smiling at the important air which Meg had unconsciously assumed and which was as becoming as the pretty color varying in her cheeks. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The alphabet consisted simply of an arrangement of dots and dashes in varying sequence. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It was as if she had forced herself to one untruth, and had been stunned out of all power of varying it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The Court sits tremulous, powerless: varies with the varying temper of the Esplanade, with the varying colour of the rumours from Paris. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The improvement covered the adjustment of the thickness of the metal at the breech of the gun to the varying pressure strains along the bore. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He afterwards introduced other improvements in the Kaleidoscope, for extending its range of objects, for varying the angles of inclination, and for projecting the figures on a screen. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- They were but varying answers to one universal question: What must we do for salvation? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Different methods are in use for keeping the supply of electricity steady in spite of the varying demands made upon it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Alloys, or mixtures of different metals, act in a similar manner, but in varying degrees. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- No modern telephone system is in use to-day that does not use these characteristic features: the varying resistance and the induction-coil. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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