DIVERSIFY (diversified)

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Irregular inflected form: diversified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does diversify mean? 

• DIVERSIFY (verb)
  The verb DIVERSIFY has 3 senses:

1. make (more) diverse

2. spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate

3. vary in order to spread risk or to expand

  Familiarity information: DIVERSIFY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVERSIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they diversify    ... he / she / it diversifies   
Past simple: diversified   
Past participle: diversified   
-ing form: diversifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make (more) diverse

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

diversify a course of study

Hypernyms (to "diversify" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diversify"):

motley; variegate; vary (make something more diverse and varied)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

diversification (the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered))

diversification (the condition of being varied)

diversity (noticeable heterogeneity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

diversify; radiate

Context example:

The plants on this island diversified

Hypernyms (to "diversify" is one way to...):

alter; change; vary (become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

diversification (the condition of being varied)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Vary in order to spread risk or to expand

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

branch out; broaden; diversify

Context example:

The company diversified

Hypernyms (to "diversify" is one way to...):

alter; change; vary (become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

specialise; specialize (become more focused on an area of activity or field of study)

Derivation:

diversification (the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered))

diversification (the condition of being varied)

diversity (the condition or result of being changeable)

 Context examples 

And, consequently, how quickly species can diversify and evolve.

(Colorful bird feathers offer evolutionary clues, National Science Foundation)

The result is an increase in antibody repertoire diversify, resulting in an enhanced overall immune response.

(Epitope Spreading, NCI Thesaurus)

With no greater events than these in the Longbourn family, and otherwise diversified by little beyond the walks to Meryton, sometimes dirty and sometimes cold, did January and February pass away.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Nutrient deficiency can be overcome within existing household budgets by diversifying diets to include coarse cereals, pulses, and leafy vegetables, and by reducing rice intake.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)

As the availability of krill has decreased, gentoo penguins have diversified their diets to include fish and squid along with krill.

(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)

Better understanding of the phenomenon’s effect on crops could help farmers diversify to more adaptable crops such as tuber vegetables or sorghum, and adopt farming practices to cope with fluctuating weather patterns.

(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)

As Ediacaran organisms got taller, their body shapes diversified, and some developed stem-like structures to support their height.

(Why life on Earth first got big, University of Cambridge)

As animated, as diversified, as social, but with circumstances of superiority undescribable.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

There were no trees, no bushes, nothing but a gray sea of moss scarcely diversified by gray rocks, gray lakelets, and gray streamlets.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The conclusion of her visit, however, was diversified in a way which she had not at all imagined.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)