adjective
definition
Having a broad range (of different elements).
example
The reasons are various.
definition
That varies or differs from others; variant; different.
example
a various reading of a Biblical text
Examples of various in a Sentence
She said nothing, barely nodding in response to the various greetings.
Tables and shelves were stacked with dozens of potted plants of various sizes, each in separate boxes.
All five of us would be employed in various capacities at very generous salaries.
Various idle stories are related about him.
He walked among the crowd with rapid steps, scanning the various faces he met.
It contains three churches, a spacious market-place and various educational and benevolent institutions.
Afterwards Boris Drubetskoy came and began relating various adventures.
This may take place in various ways.
The road along which they moved was bordered on both sides by dead horses; ragged men who had fallen behind from various regiments continually changed about, now joining the moving column, now again lagging behind it.
In 1894 and 1895, Fischer, in a remarkable series of papers on the influence of molecular structure upon the action of the enzyme, showed that various species of yeast behave very differently towards solutions of sugars.
Another fact of considerable technical importance is, that the various races of yeast show considerable differences in the amount and proportion of fermentation products other than ethyl alcohol and carbonic acid which they produce.
In the spring we made excursions to various places of interest.
The dining room and bar are decorated in a deep red dressed with various modern art paintings.
Around this are built various combinations of using chicken, pork and beef, and noodles.
Poor dear, he's as white as a sheet!--various voices were heard saying.
Qiuirry-Products.Quarries of various descriptions are numerous all over France.
Various missionary societies have also established schools.
In these, under favorable conditions, streaming movements of the cytoplasm in various directions can be observed.
Tradescantia; and in various other cells which have lost their power of division.
The endowments of the hospital were increased at various periods from bequests and forfeited estates.
In 1920 she went to Russia as a member of one of the various Labour delegations invited to inspect Soviet conditions of government.
The pollination, of flowers and the dispersal of seeds by various animals are biological factors; but pollination and dispersal by the wind cannot be so regarded.
The stratification, which may be concentric or excentric, appears to be due to a difference in density of the various layers.
Of all the various races the Jews were the most severely treated.
By October, when the French were fleeing toward Smolensk, there were hundreds of such companies, of various sizes and characters.
Asheville is a market for live-stock, dairy products, lumber and fruits, and has various manufactories (in which a good water-power is utilized), including tanneries, cotton mills, brick and tile factories, and a wood-working and veneer plant.
In the upper quadrangle is a bust of Nelson by Chantrey, and there are various other memorials and relics.
He sat on various royal commissions, including those on the Civil Service and Venereal Diseases, and from 1917 to 1919 was again chairman of the Independent Labour party.
According to the New English Dictionary, although the origin of the word "cat" is unknown, yet the name is found in various languages as far back as they can be traced.
Two Dutch friends, Constantijn Huygens (von Zuylichem), father of the more celebrated Huygens, and Hoogheland, figure amongst the correspondents, not to mention various savants, professors and churchmen (particularly Jesuits).
Fermat, Roberval and Desargues took exception in their various ways to the methods employed in the geometry, and to the demonstrations of the laws of refraction given in the Dioptrics and Meteors.
The other members of the group are relative and dependent, and only to be understood as in various degrees subordinate to the primitive conception.
Under it the cost of the necessary land was to be found as to one-third by the state and as to the residue locally, but this arrangement proved unworkable and was abandoned in 1845, when it was settled that the state should provide the land and construct the earthworks and stations, the various companies which obtained concessions being left to make the permanent way, provide rolling stock and work the lines for certain periods.
In many cases additional condensers or inductance coils are inserted in various places so that the arrangement is somewhat disguised, but by far the larger part of the electric wave wireless telegraphy in 1907 was effected by transmitters having antennae either inductively or directly coupled to a closed condenser circuit containing a spark gap.
Contrasting, in the second place, with the polyorgan theory are the various "polyperson " theories which interpret the Siphonophore cormus as a colony composed of more or fewer individuals in or a', Pneumatocyst.
The Siphonula produced buds on the manubrium, as many Anthomedusae are known to do, and these by reduction or dislocation of parts gave rise to the various appendages of the colony.
The various degrees of parasitism are to a certain extent explained by the foregoing.
Nevertheless, epidemics occur, and practical measures are devised to meet the various cases and to check the ravages already begun.
Again, the temperature of the air is affected by radiation from the soil; and radiation differs in various soils.
The cell sap contains various substances in solution such as sugars, inulin, alkaloids, glucosides, organic acids and various inorganic salts.
It is thickened more in some places than in others, and thus are formed the spiral, annular and other markings, as well as the pits which occur on various cells and vessels.
These were, in fact, simply the popular theories of sacrifice put on an evidential basis by facts drawn from various stages of culture.
His later life was spent in various parts of the Moslem world, in Aleppo with Saif-ud-Daula (to whom he dedicated the Book of Songs), in Rai with the Buyid vizier Ibn `Abbad and elsewhere.
For nine centuries Peking, under various names and under the dominion of successive dynasties, has, with some short intervals, remained an imperial city.
On the 2nd Anne herself was committed to the Tower on a charge of adultery with various persons, including her own brother, Lord Rochford.
Finally, it was concluded that he would never be able to encounter the discipline of a school; and casual instructors, at various times and places, were provided for him.
As these lakes shrank after the return of an arid climate, they left elevated beaches and deposits of various minerals, which mark their former extent.
He was educated in Rome and Paris, and, after teaching classics for some years in Geneva, held chairs of philosophy in various colleges in France, and subsequently was professor in Strassburg and in Paris.
He filled the office of vice-treasurer from 1660 till 1667, served on the committee for carrying out the declaration for the settlement of Ireland and on the committee for Irish affairs, while later, in 1671 and 1672, he was a leading member of various commissions appointed to investigate the working of the Acts of Settlement.
It may be regarded as, in various important respects, the lineal predecessor of the American Whig and Republican parties.