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Definition: Diversify |
DiversifyVerb1. Make (more) diverse; "diversify a course of study". 2. Produce variety or variegate; "The plants on this island diversified". 3. Vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "diversify" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1710. (references) |
Note: Diversify \Di*ver"si*fy\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Diversified; present participle verb or noun Diversifying.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DiversifySynonyms: branch out (v), broaden (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: specialize (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Change | Verb: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Diversify |
| English words defined with "diversify": Diversifying ♦ Freck ♦ Subdiversify ♦ To change step. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "diversify": MUD Object Oriented. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "diversify": Diversification ♦ Subdiversify. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Herb Webb, NRCS, Resource Conservationist, Flathead Indian Reservation Tribal Complex, Pablo, Montana checks of field of canola on a clients farm. Canola has emerged as a viable alternative oil crop, not only for its products, but also for the potential to diversify cropping systems. The principle use for canola is vegetable oil. Credit: USDA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Cable TV operators plan to diversify subscription packages in the future. (references) | |
Chinese society continued to become more open and to diversify at a rapid pace. (references) | ||
Ukrainian telecom operators need to diversify and upgrade the services they offer. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan hopes to diversify its economy. (references) |
Norway | This is expected to diversify Norwegian travel. (references) | |
Romania | Romania has sought to diversify its sources of external financing. (references) | |
Political Economy | PAKISTAN | While the government has moved to diversify its revenue sources, custom duties continue to provide almost 40 percent of total tax revenues. (references) |
THE BAHAMAS | The agricultural and industrial sectors, while small, continue to be the focus of government efforts to produce new jobs and diversify the economy. (references) | |
Bahrain | Possessing limited oil and gas reserves, the Government is working to diversify its economic base, concentrating on light manufacturing and the service sectors. (references) | |
Trade | China | PBOC has encouraged banks to diversify their portfolios by increasing their services to the private sector and individuals. (references) |
Ukraine | The reasons may include the continued reshuffling of key officials within the energy sector and reluctance within the government to diversify fuel supplies. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Benin | To prevent trafficking, the Government is working with international organizations to increase literacy rates, diversify the economy, and improve health care. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Diversify" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 92.00% of the time. "Diversify" is used about 175 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 92% | 161 | 24,661 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 175 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
diversify | 10 |
diversify your portfolio | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "diversify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zgjeroj (amplify, broaden, dilate, enlarge, enrich, expand, extend, fill out, let out, widen), shumëfishoj (manifold, multiply), shpërndaj (allocate, allot, apportion, bestrew, broadcast, clear, deal, deliver, deploy, diffuse, disband, disembody, dish, dish out, dispel, dispense, disperse, disseminate, dissolve, distribute, give out, give rise to, hand out, intersperse, ladle, lay, lay out, mete, part, put out, scatter, share, shed, whiffle, wipe), ndryshoj (alter, amend, change, differ, do up, inflect, manipulate, metamorphose, recast, reverse, shift, switch, transform, vary), i jap larmi (interlard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نوع يشكل, وظف أمواله في, أنتج محاصيل. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разобразявам продукцията, разнообразявам (interleave, intersperse, pepper, relieve, season, variegate, vary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 多 化 (Diversification, Diversified, Diversifying, Variegate, Variegating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | diverzifikovat, střídat (alternate, rotate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | diversificere de industrielle strukturer (to diversify the industrial base), sprede energiforsyningen (diversify energy supply). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | het industrieel apparaat diversifiëren (to diversify the industrial base), energievoorziening diversifieren (diversify energy supply). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | متنوع کردن (Manifold), گوناگون ساختن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | diversifier, faire varier, faire diversifier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verändern (alter, change, clone, modify, mutate, to clone, to mutate, transform, turn, vary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ποικίλλω (mottle, vary, vermiculate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל מר (mottle, spot, stipple, variegate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | variál, változatossá tesz (to chequer, to diversify, to vary, vary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mendiversifikasikan, membhinekakan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | diversificare (differ, differentiate), variare (alter, amend, change, fluctuate, modify, range, run, to vary, vary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 다변"하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jannoo anchasley. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iversifyday diversificar (vary), variar (checker, fluctuate, interlard, to vary, variegate, vary). (various references) diversifica (vary), varia (alter, change, chop, fluctuate, medley, varia, vary). (various references) разнообразить (variegate). (various references) preinačiti (alter, modify, modulate, transform, transmogrify). (various references) diversificar. (various references) diversifiera (launch out), göra omväxlande, göra olik. (various references) ทำให้มีหลากหลาย, หลากหลาย (different, severally). (various references) değiştirmek (alter, alternate, amend, change, commute, convert, disguise, doctor, exchange, falsify, garble, inflect, interchange, intersperse, juggle with, metamorphose, modify, recast, replace, revise, shed, shift, specialize, swap, switch, switch to, swop, transmute, unmake, vary), değişik alanlara yöneltmek, farklılaştırmak (differentiate), çeşitlendirmek. (various references) різноманітити (enliven, freak, intersperse, relieve, vary), породжувати різноманітність. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "diversify": diversifying. (additional references) | |
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"Diversify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diversi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "diversify" (pronounced dīver"sufī' or diver"sufī') |
| 4 | -s u f ī' | calcify, classify, crucify, declassify, detoxify, falsify, intensify, ossify, pacify, reclassify, specify. |
| 3 | -u f ī' | acidify, amplify, beautify, certify, clarify, codify, decertify, deify, demystify, dignify, disqualify, edify, electrify, exemplify, fortify, gentrify, glorify, gratify, horrify, identify, indemnify, justify, liquefy, magnify, misidentify, modify, mollify, mortify, mummify, mystify, notify, nullify, oversimplify, personify, petrify, purify, qualify, quantify, ramify, ratify, rectify, requalify, reunify, signify, simplify, solidify, stratify, stultify, terrify, testify, typify, unify, verify, vilify. |
| 4 | -s u f ī' | calcify, classify, crucify, declassify, detoxify, falsify, intensify, ossify, pacify, reclassify, specify. |
| 3 | -u f ī' | acidify, amplify, beautify, certify, clarify, codify, decertify, deify, demystify, dignify, disqualify, edify, electrify, exemplify, fortify, gentrify, glorify, gratify, horrify, identify, indemnify, justify, liquefy, magnify, misidentify, modify, mollify, mortify, mummify, mystify, notify, nullify, oversimplify, personify, petrify, purify, qualify, quantify, ramify, ratify, rectify, requalify, reunify, signify, simplify, solidify, stratify, stultify, terrify, testify, typify, unify, verify, vilify. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-i-r-s-v-y" | |
-2 letters: versify. | |
-3 letters: divers, drives, fervid, fivers, irides, irised, verify. | |
-4 letters: defis, deify, diver, dives, dries, drive, dyers, edify, fiery, fired, fires, fiver, fives, fried, fries, frise, irids, ivied, ivies, reifs, reify, resid, rides, rived, rives, serif, sired, siver, viers, vires, virid, vised, yirds. | |
-5 letters: defi, defy, devs, deys, dies, dire, dive, drys, dyer, dyes. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-i-r-s-v-y" | |
+3 letters: diversifying. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 76 65 72 73 69 66 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ...- . .-. ... .. ..-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101001 01100110 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i v e r s i f y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0076 0065 0072 0073 0069 0066 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387588718485757291 |
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