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Diversify   /daɪvˈərsəfˌaɪ/  /dɪvˈərsəfˌaɪ/   Listen
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Diversify  v. t.  (past & past part. diversified; pres. part. diversifying)  To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects. "Separated and diversified on from another." "Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature."






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"Diversify" Quotes from Famous Books



... three in the afternoon. The country is fertile, green, carefully cultivated. It is a succession of kitchen gardens, which seem to be well-kept immense fields sown with clover, which yield four or five crops a year. The roads near the town are bordered with long rows of mulberry trees, which diversify ...
— The Adventures of a Special Correspondent • Jules Verne

... diversification is always healthful, because it is natural, and will continue so long as the people are industrious and thrifty. The diversification which protection makes is forced and artificial. Suppose protection had come to my native county to further diversify industries. It would have begun by giving higher prices to some industry already established, or profits greater than the average rate to some new industry which it would have started. This would have disturbed the natural order. It would necessarily have embarrassed some interests to help the protected ...
— American Eloquence, Volume IV. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1897) • Various

... must determine the number of the Elements: For it is nothing near so easy as many seem to think, to determine distinctly the Effects of Heat, as I could easily manifest, if I had leasure to shew you how much the Operations of Fire may be diversify'd by Circumstances. But not wholly to pass by a matter of this Importance, I will first take notice to you, that Guajacum (for Instance) burnt with an open Fire in a Chimney, is sequestred into Ashes and Soot, whereas the ...
— The Sceptical Chymist • Robert Boyle

... pleasantly of him and his work, in the London Spectator said lately: "His books are delightful reading, with no monotony except a monotony of brilliance which an occasional lapse into dulness would almost diversify." ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 • Various

... incited fresh attacks. One British writer insisted that Federal America had done nothing either to extend, diversify, or embellish the sphere of human knowledge, and could produce nothing to bring her intellectual efforts into any sort of comparison with those of Europe. "Noah Webster, we are afraid," said he, "still occupies ...
— The United States of America Part I • Ediwn Erle Sparks


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