Word Finder - variant

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Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.

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All breeds of dog are variants of the species “Canis lupus familiaris”.

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A different sequence of a gene (locus).

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A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.

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One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.

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Showing variety, diverse.

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Showing deviation or disagreement.

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Variable.

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Covariant and/or contravariant.

In historical texts also variant readings occur in considerable number.

Robert Recorde in his Whetstone of Witte (1557) uses the variant algeber, while John Dee (1527-1608) affirms that algiebar, and not algebra, is the correct form, and appeals to the authority of the Arabian Avicenna.

The new variant is likely to spread quickly and easily, triggering a deadly pandemic.

Think of it as the doubles variant in Wii Sports tennis.

A variant of the same story was known to Guido Bonati, an astronomer quoted by Dante, who calls his hero or villain Butta Deus because he struck Jesus.

It's a very clever variant on the warm chocolate fondant with the molten choc oozing out of the sponge.

Chamberlain, the necessity of committing to memory two syllabaries, one of which has many variant forms, and at least two or three thousand Chinese ideographs, in forms standard and cursive ideographs, too, most of which are susceptible of three or four different readings according to circuinstance,add, further, that all these kinds of written symbols are apt to be encountered pell mell on the same page, and the task of mastering Japanese becomes almost Herculean.

The basic method followed is a new variant of the classical method which allows the simultaneous derivation of the associated series results.

American fiddlers sometimes use a variant of this which they call the " Georgia Shuffle " .

We were looking at the MG three-door hatchback, supposedly the ' sexiest ' looking variant.

The chronic variant of the disease carries a better prognosis.

Instead of welsh rarebit we had a very pleasant variant made with stilton melted in Port wine then browned off under the grill.

We will be offering a means of searching for all of the variant spellings automatically in a later stage of the project.

Probably the passage was originally independent of the document which told of Cain and Abel and of the Flood; Jabal may be a variant of Abel.

The Croats formed the western division of the great migratory horde of Serbo-Croats which colonized the lands between Bulgaria and the Adriatic. Contemporary chroniclers called them Chrovati, Belochrobati (" White Croats"), Chrovati, Horvati, or by some similar Latin or Byzantine variant of the Slavonic Khrvaty.

If this is a mistake (and not a variant tradition) it is a very remarkable one.

Though the form of the biretta, devised in the 17th century, is peculiar to the Roman Church, it is but a variant of the original biretum, which developed in various countries into head-coverings of different shapes and significance.

The aldol condensation (using aldehydes, ketones, two different carbonyl partners, and the intramolecular variant ).

This SNP is located in a splicing region, just before the last exon, and might originate a splicing variant with functional consequences.

I would suggest writing a front-end to convert your favorite language into Exstatic's intermediate format (which is an XML variant ).

High MTR activity, possibly associated with homozygous MTR variant genotype, should increase methionine.

In the second variant, the generator numbers correspond to the generator order given in the list gens.

The site has been selected particularly as a representative of the north-eastern variant, in which bloody crane's-bill geranium sanguineum is prominent.

One methionine homozygote French case of variant CJD has been identified.

Variant Players with large hands may prefer to deal 18 cards each from a full pack including two jokers.

The '600 ' variant was a horrible kludge that ran MS-DOS and is best avoided.

We report a case of sarcomatoid variant of ALCL accompanied by spontaneously regressing lymphadenopathy.

Research has shown it to be a chronic demyelinating neuropathy and some regard it as a rare variant of CIDP.

Angina is usually precipitated by exertion, nevertheless, angina variant may also occur at rest.

He made his influence felt also by correspondence, with political leaders and by able political speeches, one of which, delivered in 1858, contained the sentence, "Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, by all the people, for all the people," which probably suggested Abraham Lincoln's oft.-quoted variant.

Tacitus himself records a variant form of the genealogy (see above), according to which Mannus had a larger number of sons, who were regarded as the ancestors of the Suebi, Vandilii, Marsi and others (see Suebi, Vandals).

But it is now generally held that these two genealogies are variant adaptations of the Babylonian list of primitive kings (see Enoch).

The variant "Confederacy," derived through the AngloFrench confederacie, and meaning generally a league or union, whether of states or individuals, was applied in America in the sense of Confederation to the seceding southern states (see above).

Fdcherfalte); another variant of the same form is the mushroom fold (Fr.

If this is a mistake (and not a variant tradition) it is a ver y remarkable one.

Instead of Welsh rarebit we had a very pleasant variant made with stilton melted in Port wine then browned off under the grill.

Rarer colored surnames include Red, a variant form of the surname Reed or Reid, someone who lived in a reedy area.

It has a horizontal round tubular resonating chamber, whose later variant is a large square box with curved sides.

The twin seat trainer variant of the Typhoon aircraft was piloted by Squadron Leader Dave Fellowes of XXX Squadron, based at Warton.

The Cessna 182 was introduced in 1956 as a tricycle gear variant of the 180.

LaTeX is a variant of TeX, which is the world standard for typesetting mathematics.

The same theory could explain some cases of new variant CJD in humans.

Altered cell surface expression of human MC1R variant receptor alleles associated with red hair and skin cancer risk.

He applies the same argument to some of the recorded variant readings of the Qur'an.

The all-in-one variant is much like putting a disposable diaper on a baby; the only difference is that you throw it in the washer when it's dirty and not in the garbage.

The other variant of cloth diapers involves having both liners (to absorb waste) and a cover (to prevent leaking).

The Tropical Sunrise, a sweeter variant of the Tequila Sunrise, is made with rum and a few extra sweet ingredients.

The Tequila Pink Sunrise is a variant combining the original 1930's Tequila Sunrise with the new Tequila Pink.

The All-Play variant doesn't convert the simulation game into an arcade style game, but it does offer more intuitive and simplified controls.

Each variant may be slightly different than the original design, moving a button here or an extra feature there, but they are fundamentally identical to the original platform.