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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diversify \Di*ver"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diversified; p. pr. & vb. n. Diversifying.] [F. diversifier, LL. diversificare, fr. L. diversus diverse + ficare (in comp.), akin to facere to make. See Diverse.] 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.
--Locke.
Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of
nature.
--I. Taylor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Old French diversifier (13c.) "to make diverse," from Medieval Latin diversificare, from Latin diversus (see diverse). Economic sense is from 1939. Related: Diversified; diversifying.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
WordNet
v. make (more) diverse; "diversify a course of study"
spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate; "The plants on this island diversified" [syn: radiate]
vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified" [syn: branch out, broaden] [ant: specialize, specialize]
[also: diversified]
Usage examples of "diversify".
The little masses of aggregated matter are of the most diversified shapes, often spherical or oval, sometimes much elongated, or quite irregular with thread or necklacelike or clubformed projections.
As all this information was embellished and diversified by a considerable fund of anecdotage, it took the most of the way through supper.
They quickly diversified, and by the middle of the period angiosperms of modern aspect had spread all over the planet.
Our friend in Bonanza turns out to have diversified his portfolio far beyond the usual metal goods.
Among predatory dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous, there occur tyrannosaurids and many diversified but rare small predatory groups such as dromaeosaurids, troodontids, elmisaurids and oviraptorosaurs.
A good enough solution to have diversified into five hundred genera, five thousand species: corn, wheat, rice, bamboo, sorghum, reed, oats, timothy, fescue, Kentucky blue.
Clearing Sconce Point, which is the first object worthy notice from Cowes, you perceive the cottage, battery, and residence of Captain Farrington on the rise of the hill, and beyond are Gurnet and Harness Bays closely succeeding one another, the shores above being well diversified with foliage and richly cultivated grounds.
A large amount of inheritable and diversified variability is favourable, but I believe mere individual differences suffice for the work.
Then the lieutenant began to diversify his game and the plebe responded in kind.
For in the larger country there will have existed more individuals, and more diversified forms, and the competition will have been severer, and thus the standard of perfection will have been rendered higher.
By diversifying your crops, you make it harder for the pests to find the vegies of their choice, and if they do find one plant, they might still find it hard to get onto the next one.
Out of this varied group of Triassic archosaurs arose the dinosaurs which, though initially rare, spread, diversified, and eventually completely dominated the animal communities of the world over the next 150 million years.
After the foregoing discussion, which ought to have been much amplified, we may, I think, assume that the modified descendants of any one species will succeed by so much the better as they become more diversified in structure, and are thus enabled to encroach on places occupied by other beings.
But as a general rule, the more diversified in structure the descendants from any one species can be rendered, the more places they will be enabled to seize on, and the more their modified progeny will be increased.
Their modified descendants, fourteen in number at the fourteen-thousandth generation, will probably have inherited some of the same advantages: they have also been modified and improved in a diversified manner at each stage of descent, so as to have become adapted to many related places in the natural economy of their country.