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PRONUNCIATION OF COVARY

covary  [ˌkəʊˈveərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COVARY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Covary is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb covary in English.

WHAT DOES COVARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Covariance

In probability theory and statistics, covariance is a measure of how much two random variables change together. If the greater values of one variable mainly correspond with the greater values of the other variable, and the same holds for the smaller values, i.e., the variables tend to show similar behavior, the covariance is positive. In the opposite case, when the greater values of one variable mainly correspond to the smaller values of the other, i.e., the variables tend to show opposite behavior, the covariance is negative. The sign of the covariance therefore shows the tendency in the linear relationship between the variables. The magnitude of the covariance is not easy to interpret. The normalized version of the covariance, the correlation coefficient, however, shows by its magnitude the strength of the linear relation. A distinction must be made between the covariance of two random variables, which is a population parameter that can be seen as a property of the joint probability distribution, and the sample covariance, which serves as an estimated value of the parameter.

Definition of covary in the English dictionary

The definition of covary in the dictionary is to vary in correlation with another related variant.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO COVARY

PRESENT

Present
I covary
you covary
he/she/it covaries
we covary
you covary
they covary
Present continuous
I am covarying
you are covarying
he/she/it is covarying
we are covarying
you are covarying
they are covarying
Present perfect
I have covaried
you have covaried
he/she/it has covaried
we have covaried
you have covaried
they have covaried
Present perfect continuous
I have been covarying
you have been covarying
he/she/it has been covarying
we have been covarying
you have been covarying
they have been covarying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I covaried
you covaried
he/she/it covaried
we covaried
you covaried
they covaried
Past continuous
I was covarying
you were covarying
he/she/it was covarying
we were covarying
you were covarying
they were covarying
Past perfect
I had covaried
you had covaried
he/she/it had covaried
we had covaried
you had covaried
they had covaried
Past perfect continuous
I had been covarying
you had been covarying
he/she/it had been covarying
we had been covarying
you had been covarying
they had been covarying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will covary
you will covary
he/she/it will covary
we will covary
you will covary
they will covary
Future continuous
I will be covarying
you will be covarying
he/she/it will be covarying
we will be covarying
you will be covarying
they will be covarying
Future perfect
I will have covaried
you will have covaried
he/she/it will have covaried
we will have covaried
you will have covaried
they will have covaried
Future perfect continuous
I will have been covarying
you will have been covarying
he/she/it will have been covarying
we will have been covarying
you will have been covarying
they will have been covarying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would covary
you would covary
he/she/it would covary
we would covary
you would covary
they would covary
Conditional continuous
I would be covarying
you would be covarying
he/she/it would be covarying
we would be covarying
you would be covarying
they would be covarying
Conditional perfect
I would have covary
you would have covary
he/she/it would have covary
we would have covary
you would have covary
they would have covary
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been covarying
you would have been covarying
he/she/it would have been covarying
we would have been covarying
you would have been covarying
they would have been covarying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you covary
we let´s covary
you covary
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to covary
Past participle
covaried
Present Participle
covarying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COVARY


anniversary
ˌænɪˈvɜːsərɪ
battery
ˈbætərɪ
blackberry
ˈblækbərɪ
category
ˈkætɪɡərɪ
celery
ˈsɛlərɪ
century
ˈsɛntʃərɪ
contemporary
kənˈtɛmprərɪ
delivery
dɪˈlɪvərɪ
diary
ˈdaɪərɪ
dictionary
ˈdɪkʃənərɪ
directory
dɪˈrɛktərɪ
discovery
dɪˈskʌvərɪ
elementary
ˌɛlɪˈmɛntərɪ
factory
ˈfæktərɪ
glary
ˈɡleərɪ
nightmary
ˈnaɪtˌmeərɪ
overwary
ˌəʊvəˈweərɪ
unchary
ʌnˈtʃeərɪ
unscary
ʌnˈskeərɪ
vairy
ˈveərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COVARY

covalence
covalency
covalent
covalent bond
covalently
covariance
covariant
covariate
covariation
cove
cove stripe
covelet
covellite
coven
covenant
covenantal
covenantally
covenantee
Covenanter
covenantor

WORDS THAT END LIKE COVARY

calvary
commentary
Gary
Hungary
January
Javary
library
Mary
military
necessary
olivary
on the contrary
ovary
primary
salivary
secondary
secretary
summary
temporary
vary

Synonyms and antonyms of covary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «covary» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COVARY

Find out the translation of covary to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of covary from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «covary» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

共变
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

covary
570 millions of speakers

English

covary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

covary
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

covary
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

covary
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

covary
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

covary
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

covarient
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Covary
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kovariieren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

covary
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

covary
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Covary
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

covary
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

covary
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कोव्हरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

covary
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

covary
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

covary
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

covary
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

covary
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνδιακυμαίνονται
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

covary
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

samvarierar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

samvarierer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of covary

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COVARY»

The term «covary» is normally little used and occupies the 113.822 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COVARY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «covary» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «covary» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about covary

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COVARY»

Discover the use of covary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to covary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XII: Papers from the ...
there are also no cases in which prosodic alternations in the stem covary with the appearance or form of the discontinuous declension or case particles, i.e., the stem does not covary with declension or case. Analogously, number does not ...
Elabbas Benmamoun, 1999
2
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and ...
For even ifp and q covary, we could say that a symbol has p rather than q as its content if S would nomologically covary with p but not q in epistemically optimal conditions for p. However, it is unclear that this appeal to epistemic optimality ...
Luciano Floridi, 2008
3
The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about ...
In short, traits do not covary with each other in a way that results in stable, clear racial clusters. For example, a given population might develop one adaptive trait that distinguished it from its neighbors to the east but not those to the west, at the  ...
Ann Morning, 2011
4
Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction
We know that A's can covary with B's without its being true that A's cause B's. If the covariation is extensive and systematic, however, we seek a causal explanation: perhaps A's and B's are themselves caused by C's. A squeaking from under ...
‎1998
5
The Covarian Copperhead: Godmother - Part I
“Well Covary started out as a kind of sorority—a super secret sorority—The Silent Sisterhood, we used to call it—before it had a real name.” Monty stuttered again, almost choking to get the words out. “It started out as a group of radical, militant ...
Wisteria Wormwood, 2007
6
Research on Judgment and Decision Making: Currents, ...
However, it is an enabling condition, because it does covary with the effect in another focal set: Set C (and to a lesser extent in Set B as well). Notice that q and r, which have the same status in terms of necessity and sufficiency with respect to  ...
William M. Goldstein, Robin M. Hogarth, 1997
7
Gray Matters: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
In short, the blasts of steam covary with features that are causally relevant to the turning of the shaft. But surely the blasts of steam themselves are not such features; after all, the steam blasts themselves aren't the cause of (nor are they even ...
Sanford Goldberg, Andrew Pessin, 1997
8
Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction
We know that A's can covary with B's without its being true that A's cause B's. If the covariation is extensive and systematic, however, we seek a causal explanation: perhaps A's and B's are themselves caused by C's. A squeaking from under ...
John Heil, Professor in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program John Heil, 2012
9
Latent Variable Modeling Using R: A Step-by-Step Guide
For the extra endogenous variable model: (a) the AVs are predicted by all predictor variables (manifest or latent) in the regression models of interest; (b) the AVs' error variances covary with error variances from all regression models (for both ...
A. Alexander Beaujean, 2014
10
Impact of National Emergency Grant on Rural Mississippi
... strongly they covary (Shadish, Cook, & Campbell, 2002). These two inferences can result in a Type I error, that is incorrectly concluding that cause and effect covary when they do not, or a Type II error, incorrectly concluding that cause and  ...
Shannon Leigh Campbell, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COVARY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term covary is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Genome-wide methylation study on depression: differential …
Personalized epigenomic signatures that are stable over time and covary with body mass index. Sci Transl Med 2010; 2: 49ra67. «Nature.com, Apr 15»
2
Students Travel to Puerto Rico to Develop Research Skills
This year, one group is testing the idea that the leaf shape in tree ferns may covary with temperature; if true, this opens the possibility that leaf ... «Wesleyan Connection, Feb 15»
3
Study: CO2 And Climate History May Need Review
The results showed that post-depositional changes in sediments could cause carbonate and organic values to covary through time, a process ... «reportingclimatescience.com, Sep 14»
4
401(k) Plan Abuses Finally Coming to Light
... (the financespeak term is “covary” or “covariance”): stocks, bonds, real estate, cash. Later research added foreign stocks and foreign bonds. «EconoMonitor, Dec 13»
5
The Heritability of Intelligence: Not What You Think
... operated on the assumption that genotype and environment are independent and do not covary. These findings suggests they very much do. «Scientific American, Oct 13»
6
The Science of Investing
... in technical terms, covary) with the market's. The strength of the relationship is summarized in a variable called beta. A beta of 1 indicates that ... «Morningstar.com, Aug 13»
7
Sleep Like a Baby Barn Owl
... a trait known to covary with behavioral and physiological traits in adult owls. These findings raise the intriguing possibility that sleep-related ... «Environmental News Network, Aug 13»
8
Sleeping patterns of baby birds are similar to that of baby humans …
... a trait known to covary with behavioral and physiological traits in adult owls. These findings raise the intriguing possibility that sleep-related ... «News-Medical.net, Aug 13»
9
Baby Bird Sleep Patterns Are A Lot Like Baby Humans
Do sleep and pigmentation covary in adult owls, and if so how does this influence their behavior and physiology? Finally, Niels Rattenborg from ... «Science 2.0, Aug 13»
10
Phil Rushton's Credo And The New Dark Age
... correlates with gamete production (indexed, for example, by dizygotic twinning rate), and that both covary with a suite of life history attributes, ... «VDARE.com, Oct 12»

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