buttress vs vary

buttress

noun
  • A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it. 

  • Anything that supports or strengthens. 

  • A buttress-root. 

  • Anything that serves to support something; a prop. 

  • A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock. 

verb
  • To support something or someone by supplying evidence. 

  • To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress. 

vary

verb
  • To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate. 

  • To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See variation. 

  • To be or act different from the usual. 

  • Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter. 

  • To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify. 

  • To change with time or a similar parameter. 

  • To display differences. 

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