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di·ver·si·fy

 (dĭ-vûr′sə-fī′, dī-)
v.di·ver·si·fied,di·ver·si·fy·ing,di·ver·si·fies
v.tr.
1.
a. To give variety to; vary:diversify a menu.
b. To extend (business activities) into disparate fields.
2. To distribute (investments) among different companies or securities in order to limit losses in the event of a fall in a particular market or industry.
v.intr.
To spread out activities or investments, especially in business.

[Middle Englishdiversifien, from Old Frenchdiversifier, from Medieval Latindīversificāre : Latindīversus; see diverse + Latin-ficāre,-fy.]

di·ver′si·fi·ca′tion(-fĭ-kā′shən) n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.diversified - having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety; "a diversified musical program ranging from classical to modern"; "diversified farming"; "diversified manufacturing"; "diversified scenery"; "diversified investments"
heterogeneous,heterogenous - consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature; "the population of the United States is vast and heterogeneous"
undiversified - not diversified
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diversified

adjective
2.Not limited to a single class:
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diversified

adj(= varied)verschieden,verschiedenartig;riskverteilt;companydiversifiziert
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A large amount of inheritable anddiversified variability is favourable, but I believe mere individual differences suffice for the work.
With no greater events than these in the Longbourn family, and otherwisediversified by little beyond the walks to Meryton, sometimes dirty and sometimes cold, did January and February pass away.
In the large and pleasant salon which extended across the width of the house, the Ratignolles entertained their friends once a fortnight with a soiree musicale, sometimesdiversified by card-playing.
Through the windows of their carriage the travellers had glimpses of thediversified landscape of Behar, with its mountains clothed in verdure, its fields of barley, wheat, and corn, its jungles peopled with green alligators, its neat villages, and its still thickly-leaved forests.
I was glad to be in a city so great, so complex anddiversified. Leisurely and with something of an air I strolled along with my heart expanding at the thought that I was a citizen of great Gotham, a sharer in its magnificence and pleasures, a partaker in its glory and prestige.
Their bed of withered oak leaves was strewn upon the small level space, at the foot of a rock, situated near the summit of one of the gentle swells by which the face of the country is therediversified. The mass of granite, rearing its smooth, flat surface fifteen or twenty feet above their heads, was not unlike a gigantic gravestone, upon which the veins seemed to form an inscription in forgotten characters.
The lonely bay of Nukuheva, dotted here and there with the black hulls of the vessels composing the French squadron, lay reposing at the base of a circular range of elevations, whose verdant sides, perforated with deep glens ordiversified with smiling valleys, formed altogether the loveliest view I ever beheld, and were I to live a hundred years, I shall never forget the feeling of admiration which I then experienced.
Hunt and his companions continued on westward through a rugged region of hills and rocks, butdiversified in many places by grassy little glens, with springs of water, bright sparkling brooks, clumps of pine trees, and a profusion of flowering plants, which were in bloom, although the weather was frosty.
The conclusion of her visit, however, wasdiversified in a way which she had not at all imagined.
He was a strong, well-grown Scotch terrier of the largest size, with bright, intelligent eyes, and a coat of thick curling white hair,diversified by two light brown patches on his back.
Two lines of rails, a waggon shed, and a few telegraph posts, alonediversified the outlook.
The soil was light and sandy; the country muchdiversified. Frequently the plains were studded with isolated blocks of rock, sometimes in the shape of a half globe, and from three to four hundred feet high.

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