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Definition: Variegate |
VariegateVerb1. Make something more diverse and varied; "Vary the menu". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "variegate" was first used: 1653. (references) |
Note: Variegate \Va"ri*e*gate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Variegated; present participle verb or noun Variegating.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: VariegateSynonyms: motley (v), vary (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Variegate |
| English words defined with "variegate": Aumail ♦ checker, chequer ♦ diversify ♦ Engrail ♦ harlequin ♦ To pick out ♦ Variegating, Varify. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "variegate": Bloodshot. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "variegate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | نوع (brood, change, class, description, form, gender, genus, grain, kidney, kind, manner, order, quality, ripeness, run, sex, sort, species, stripe, style, type, variety, vary), لون (color, colour, dapple, paint, shade, stain, suffuse, tinge, tint), رقش (mottle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разнообразявам (diversify, interleave, intersperse, pepper, relieve, season, vary), шаря (fleck), пъстря (fleck). (various references) | |
Chinese | 多 化 (Diversification, Diversified, Diversify, Diversifying, Variegating). (various references) | |
Czech | zpestřit. (various references) | |
French | faire varier (vary), colorer. (various references) | |
German | beleben (animate, brighten, brighten up, bring to life, buoy up, enliven, exhilarate, inspirit, invigorate, liven, liven up, revive, stimulate, to animate, to enliven, to freshen, to inspirit, to revive, to staminate, vitalize, vivify), abwandeln (adapt, modify, to modify, vary). (various references) | |
Greek | ποικίλω. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לרקום (design, devise, embroider, form, shape, weave), ל מר (diversify, mottle, spot, stipple). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kever (blend, blunge, mingle, mix, puddle, shuffle, stir, to blend, to compound, to dolly, to interlard, to make the cards, to mix). (various references) | |
Italian | variegare. (various references) | |
Korean | 잡색으로 하십시". (various references) | |
Manx | schimmeigey (score, stripe), breckey (bespeckle, brindle, chequer, chequering, dapple, dappled, embroider, freckle, jotting, mottle, pebble, rough, sharpen, spot, sprinkle, variegation), brackey (bracket, put a point on, sharpen, whittle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ariegatevay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | variegar, variar (checker, diversion, fluctuation, interleaf, to vary, vary), tornar variado, mosquear (mottle, powder, speckle, talcum), matizar (blend, checker, freak, fretful, mingle, shade, speckle, sprinkle), colorir (color, colour, illuminate). (various references) | |
Russian | разнообразить (diversify). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | išarati (dapple, mottle, streak off). (various references) | |
Spanish | jaspear (marble). (various references) | |
Swedish | variera (fluctuate, relieve, vary), nyansera, göra skiftande. (various references) | |
Turkish | renklendirmek (clothe, color, colour, stain, tinge), rengârenk yapmak. (various references) | |
Ukranian | робити строкатим (speckle), змінювати (alter, change, switch, tone, transform, turn round). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | varia, variari, varias, variat, variatas, variavit, vario. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | variegatus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "variegate": variegated, variegates. (additional references) | |
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"Variegate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: variegata. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "variegate" (pronounced 'Va"ri*e*gate'): Abjugate, Abligate, Abnegate, Adjugate, Adrogate, Alligate, Arrogate, Assubjugate, Bicolligate, Biconjugate, Bijugate, BILLINGSGATE, Castigate, Circumnavigate, Clarigate, Defatigate, Deligate, Delitigate, Denegate, Disaggregate, Disgregate, Dogate, Enavigate, Erogate, Erugate, Evestigate, Evulgate, Expurgate, Extravagate, fumigate, Fungate, Fustigate, Homologate, Indagate, Ingate, instigate, irrigate, Irrugate, Laevigate, Langate, Ligate, mitigate, Multijugate, Objurgate, Obligate, Obrogate, Outgate, Pervestigate, Plagate, Prodigate, Prolongate, Prorogate, Quadrijugate, Refragate, Reinterrogate, Reinvestigate, relegate, Renavigate, Rugate, Runagate, Self-conjugate, Strigate, Subelongate, subjugate, subrogate, Suffragate, Suffumigate, Supererogate, tollgate, Trijugate, Unijugate, Vestigate, Vitilitigate, Waygate. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-i-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: ergative. | |
-2 letters: average, variate, virgate. | |
-3 letters: aerate, aigret, aviate, ergate, gaiter, greave, grieve, grivet, ravage, regave, regive, rivage, triage, verite. | |
-4 letters: aerie, agate, agave, agree, agria, aiver, areae, arete, atria, avert, eager, eagre, eater, egret, evert, evite, giver, grate, grave, great, greet, irate, ragee, reata, reave, reive, retag, retia, retie, revet, riata, rivet, taiga, targe, terai, terga, tiara, tiger, tragi, trave, varia, vegie, verge, virga, vitae. | |
-5 letters: agar, agee, ager, airt, area, aria, aver, eave, eger, ever, gait, gate, gave, gear, geta, girt, give, grat, gree, grit, raga, rage, ragi, raia, rate, rave, rete, rite, rive, tare, tear, tier, tire, tree, trig, vagi, vair, vara, veer, vera, vert, vier, viga, vita. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-g-i-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: variegated, variegates, vegetarian. | |
+2 letters: aggregative, degradative, vegetarians. | |
+3 letters: asseverating, exaggerative, reevaluating. | |
+4 letters: agglomerative, aggregatively, argumentative, nonvegetarian, vegetarianism. | |
+5 letters: disaggregative, extravagancies, nonvegetarians, vegetarianisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 72 69 65 67 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- .-. .. . --. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100101 01100111 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a r i e g a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0072 0069 0065 0067 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)566784757173678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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