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VARIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Considered individually
Example:
the various reports all agreed
Synonyms:
respective; several; various
Classified under:
Similar:
individual; single (being or characteristic of a single thing or person)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity
Example:
cited various reasons for his behavior
Synonyms:
assorted; various
Classified under:
Similar:
different (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Distinctly dissimilar or unlike
Example:
animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth
Synonyms:
diverse; various
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
different (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Having great diversity or variety
Example:
his vast and versatile erudition
Synonyms:
various; versatile
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
varied (characterized by variety)
Context examples:
Of the various subtypes, meningothelial, fibrous and transitional meningiomas are the most common.
(Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)
Let’s look at your communication sector and all the gifts the various planets have brought to offer you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Actins are highly conserved proteins that are involved in various types of cell motility, and maintenance of the cytoskeleton.
(Actin, Gamma 2, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)
The team then tested the most effective single agents in various combinations.
(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)
A term referring to acute myeloid leukemias with rearrangement of the MLL gene which results in translocations with various genes other than the MLLT3 (AF9) gene.
(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Variant MLL Translocations, NCI Thesaurus)
LMP1 and LMP2 are expressed in various malignancies including nasopharyngeal cancer and EBV-positive Hodgkins disease.
(Ad5F35-LMP1/LMP2-Transduced Autologous Dendritic Cells, NCI Thesaurus)
There are so many things which may happen, and their ways and their ends are so various that until the moment we may not say.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but without success.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My heart was full, and I did not answer him, but as I proceeded, I weighed the various arguments that he had used and determined at least to listen to his tale.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But he did not know why he did these various things.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
