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VARIEGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does variegate mean? 

VARIEGATE (verb)
  The verb VARIEGATE has 2 senses:

1. change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colorsplay

2. make something more diverse and variedplay

  Familiarity information: VARIEGATE used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VARIEGATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they variegate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it variegates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: variegated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: variegated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: variegating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

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

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

variegation (variability in coloration)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Make something more diverse and varied

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

motley; variegate; vary

Context example:

Vary the menu

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

diversify (make (more) diverse)

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

checker; chequer (variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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


 Context examples 


It was now a variegated wall, composed of the trees that fringed the stream, the opposing mountain that towered above the trees, and the sky that out-towered the mountain.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

This part of the Rhine, indeed, presents a singularly variegated landscape.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mutation of the gene is associated with colorectal cancer, mosaic variegated aneuploidy syndrome and premature chromatid separation trait and may be involved in other carcinomas.

(BUB1B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)



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