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# diversify

«diversify» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make something more varied or to start doing more…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (diversify, diversifies, diversified, diversifying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make something more varied or to start doing more different kinds of things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#m1)

2) (money, business) To spread money or work across different areas so as not to depend on one thing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#m2)

3) (biology) To develop into many different kinds over time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, economics and money lessons, farms, towns and companies diversify to reduce risk; in science, living things diversify through evolution; phrases: «diversify into», «diversify your diet», «diversify your savings».

### examples

- Farmers diversify by growing different crops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#x1)
- The library wants to diversify its books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#x2)
- Try to diversify your diet with more fruit and vegetables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#x3)
- The company decided to diversify into electric bikes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#x4)
- Over millions of years, birds diversified into thousands of species. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#x5)
- The town needed to diversify after the mine closed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#x6)

### note

Verb forms: diversifies, diversified, diversifying. Noun: diversification. Related: diverse, diversity.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «diversify» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.