亚洲网紅露点

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variant

[ vair-ee-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. tending to change or alter; exhibiting variety or diversity; varying:

    variant shades of color.

  2. not agreeing or conforming; differing, especially from something of the same general kind.
  3. not definitive, as a version of part of a text; different; alternative:

    a variant reading.

  4. not universally accepted.


noun

  1. a person or thing that varies.
  2. a different spelling, pronunciation, or form of the same word:

    鈥淰ehemency鈥 is a variant of 鈥渧ehemence.鈥

  3. Microbiology, Pathology. a form of a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism that arises from a strain of the microorganism when a mutation changes a small part of the strain鈥檚 genetic code. Compare strain 2( def 5 ).

variant

/ 藞惫蓻蓹谤瑟蓹苍迟 /

adjective

  1. liable to or displaying variation
  2. differing from a standard or type

    a variant spelling

  3. obsolete.
    not constant; fickle
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. something that differs from a standard or type
  2. statistics another word for variate
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 苍辞苍路惫补谤路颈路补苍迟 adjective noun
  • 耻苍路惫补谤路颈路补苍迟 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of variant1

First recorded in 1350鈥1400; Middle English variaunt(e), variant(e) 鈥渦ndergoing change, tending to change, changeable,鈥 from Old French, from Latin variant-, stem of 惫补谤颈腻苍蝉, present participle of 惫补谤颈腻谤别 鈥渢o mark or adorn with different colors鈥; various; -ant
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of variant1

C14: via Old French from Latin 惫补谤颈腻苍蝉, from 惫补谤颈腻谤别 to diversify, from varius various
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With that ancient DNA, scientists identified gene variants specific to dire wolves and then performed multiplex gene editing with a genome from the gray wolf, dire wolves鈥 closest living relatives.

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Whatever Augusta founder Bobby Jones uttered about the importance of golfing mentality - there are a few variants of his profound psychology - the legendary American probably didn't expect it to be referenced a century later.

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The southern provinces of Syria, which run along the frontier with Israel, are home to many of Syria's Druze 鈥 Arabs who practice a variant of Shia Islam 鈥 whose community stretches across Syria, Israel and Lebanon.

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Unfortunately, the vaccines were still months away and new variants were springing up so he resorted to his usual tactics of pitting people against each other.

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More than 100 renderings by artists as grand as David Hockney delivered fugue variants in form and material.

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