(intransitive) To apply varnish. / (transitive) To cover up with varnish. / (transitive) To make something superficially or deceptively attractive / (transitive) To gloss over a defect.

A pestering animal such as one that kills or harasses a farmer's livestock or crops. / (by extension) An obnoxious person or troublemaker.

(transitive) To change with time or a similar parameter. / (transitive) To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.

(obsolete) alteration; change.

Able to vary or be varied. / Likely to vary. / Marked by diversity or difference. / (mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value. / (biology) Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.

Something that is variable. / Something whose value may be dictated or discovered. / (mathematics) A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values. / (mathematics) A symbol representing a variable.

(chiefly programming) A conventional variable name used for an unspecified entity whose exact nature depends on context.

(algebra) In an equation, any variable whose value is not dependent on any other in the equation. / (sciences) The variable that is changed or manipulated in a series of experiments.

(algebra) In an equation, the variable whose value depends on one or more variables in the equation. / (sciences) An outcome measured to see the effectiveness of the treatment.

(typography, Unicode) A shape variant of a Han character, encoded for historical reasons.