Word Finder - variants

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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.

The legend, which has never been traced to its ultimate source, had many variants, especially as regards the situation attributed to Manoa.

It is not, however, a revision of the Fragmentary Targum - for it is clearly independent of that version - but is rather a parallel, if somewhat later, production, in which the text of Onkelos is already combined with a number of variants and additions.

But All These Variants Together Are Mere Stray Curios Among The Crowding Souvenirs Of The Old Home Over Sea.

The former hypothesis with its variants may be called the Trochosphere-hypothesis, the latter the Gastraea-hypothesis.

In the fable of Reynard the Fox the name of the hare is Coart, Kywart, Cuwaert or other variants.

That any such people as the Wilten existed there is little evidence, but Wiltaburg (or variants of it) occurs in chronicles as late as the 12th century, and it is still preserved in the name Wildenburg, given to a Roman camp near the city.

In the use of the ancient versions for the purposes of textual criticism there are three precautions which must always be observed; we must reasonably assure ourselves that we possess the version itself in its original integrity; we must eliminate such variants as have the appearance of originating merely with the translator; the remainder, which will be those that are due to a difference of text in the MS. (or MSS.) used by the translator, we must then compare carefully, in the light of the considerations just stated, with the existing Hebrew text, in order to determine on which side the superiority lies."

Except by the obviously absurd assumption of the infallibility of copyists for the centuries before c. 300 B.C., we cannot escape the conclusion that errors lurk even where no variants now exist, and that such errors can be corrected, if at all, only by conjectural emendation.

Some of the divergent readings of both these texts have been preserved as well as a considerable number of other ancient variants.

Some theologians did indeed protest against it with great energy; it was in fact too preposterous to declare that a book composed of unstable words and letters, and full of variants, was absolutely divine.

They include plaster of Paris, Keene's cement and many variants of these two types.

Its name - of which Maroy and Mourie are older variants - does not, as is often supposed, commemorate the Virgin, but St Maelrubha, who came from Bangor in Ireland in 671 and founded a monastery at Applecross and a chapel (now in ruins) on Isle Maree.

A strange mystification was practised by the last named, a scholar of singular brilliancy, who claimed to have a mutilated MS. which he called his Decurtatus, bought from a common soldier who had obtained it from a sacked monastery; also to have been furnished by a friend, Pierre de Crouzeil, a doctor of Limoges, with variants taken from an old MS. found at Noyon, and entered in the margin of a copy of the Lyons edition.

Porkka (18J4-1889), who extended their researches to the Finns settled in other parts of the Russian empire, and collected a considerable number of variants of the Kalewala and other popular poetry and songs.

Of the name Jedburgh there have been many variants, the earliest being Gedwearde (800), Jedwarth (1251), and Geddart (1586), while locally the word is sometimes pronounced Jethart.

The unit of measure is the zar or gez, of which, as in the case of the man, there are several variants.

In the three variants of the notice of Zosimus given in Duchesne's edition of the Lib.

The chief products 1 "Kansas" - in archaic variants of spelling and pronunciation, "Kansaw," and still called, locally and colloquially, the "Kaw."

Spalathum, Spalathrum and Spalatrum are early variants.

By this means we are able to detect dittographies in the Greek and variants in the original Semitic. The original was written to a large extent in verse.

In some variants of the story this shell is said to grow as a kind of mushroom on rotting timber in the sea, and is obviously one of the barnacles of the genus Lepas.

The typical civilized Indonesian peoples, Malays and Javanese, are variants of a Proto-Malay race with Indian, Arab and other foreign admixtures.

These sequence variants are called maternal and paternal alleles.

Of these 4 overlaps were found to contain sequence variants between the sequence of the two overlapping clones.

Many characters have a variety of forms, including diacritics or contextual variants.

There are now eleven variants of Nurofen which all contain the active ingredient ibuprofen.

Variants of a gene encoding the protein interleukin 12B may associated with severity of disease in children who have asthma.

The views he rejected can be seen as simply an all embracing liberalism, including both the classical and revisionist variants.

Bleach brush variants erase to white, gradually lightening by removing color.

There are, of course, many possible variants between the illustrated models - too numerous to reproduce here.

All the many variants of the basic concept include permanent magnets, spring and coils.

Like the Lancaster it was initially fitted with Rolls Royce Merlins but subsequent variants used the excellent Bristol Hercules sleeve valve radial engines.

It would be well to discuss the variants in these textual recensions.

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Linear programming problems are processed by sparse simplex (SSX) with both PRIMAL and DUAL variants.

Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described; however, their full length nature has not been determined.

A major focus of the research at Strangeways is the identification of genetic variants that underlie susceptibility to common disease.

During that period such Titans of fashion as Glenn Hoddle, Pat Sharpe and Michael Bolton adopted variants of the style.

Then came the Super Minx Marks I to IV (with more Singer variants and an even further upmarket Humber ).

Within these fundamentally different approaches, there are several encoding variants.

For now we detect 2 variants, they are very similar and just differ with their encryption at the first layer.

This requires a large-scale genotyping and bioinformatics program, in crop and model systems, that relates allelic variants to gene function.

There must have been serious textual variants between the texts to warrant such action.

The project is looking for new genetic variants linked to diabetes type I, with cooperation from clinicians across the UK.

Make sure you don't have slight variants which will create new entries.

The presence or absence of expression of these splice variants is being documented in normal tissues and a spectrum of brain tumors.

If women were more integrated into such networks, then they might use more vernacular variants than men.

You will need to consider spelling variants, abbreviations, alternative meanings and to identify broader and narrower terms.

The pioneering Crusade team are developing variants of the herpes simplex virus that can be used in novel treatments in cancers.

You can use watercolor brush variants to apply a watercolor effect to a photo by lifting the canvas to the watercolor layer.