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vary
in
The Plague
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- In the evening, on leaving the office, they forgather, at an hour that never varies, in the cafés, stroll the same boulevard, or take the air on their balconies.†
Part 1varies = differs; or changes
- Then, immediately following these eccentricities of thought and expression, we come on a detailed description of the streetcar service in the town, the structure of the cars, their indeterminate color, their unvarying dirtiness-and he concludes his observations with a "Very odd," which explains nothing.†
Part 1unvarying = consistent or the samestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unvarying means not and reverses the meaning of varying. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- The town-topics column, usually very varied, is now devoted exclusively to a campaign against the local authorities.†
Part 1 *varied = differed; or changed
- So he wrote Latin words on his blackboard, then copied out again in blue chalk the part of each word that changed in conjugation or declension, and in red chalk the part of the word that never varied.†
Part 1
- Grand's duties as clerk in the Municipal Office were varied, and he was sometimes employed in the statistical department on compiling the figures of births, marriages, and deaths.†
Part 1
- The varying aspects of the sky, the very smells rising from the soil that mark each change of season, were taken notice of for the first time.†
Part 2varying = differing; or changing
- In the small face, rigid as a mask of grayish clay, slowly the lips parted and from them rose a long, incessant scream, hardly varying with his respiration, and filling the ward with a fierce, indignant protest, so little childish that it seemed like a collective voice issuing from all the sufferers there.†
Part 4
- But these were not to Cottard's liking, and his reactions varied on each occasion, from mere petulance to great despondency.†
Part 5varied = differed; or changed
Definitions:
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(1)
(vary) to be different, or to changeVary is often used to describe small differences or changes--especially about things of the same type. It would be more common to say "The weight of full-grown elephants varies depending upon diet and other factors," than to say "The weight of elephants varies from that of mice."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)