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UK
/vˈeəɹɪəs/
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[ US /ˈvɛɹiəs/ ]
[ US /ˈvɛɹiəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having great diversity or variety
his vast and versatile erudition
his various achievements are impressive -
of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity
cited various reasons for his behavior
assorted sizes
his disguises are many and various
assorted sizes
various experiments have failed to disprove the theory -
considered individually
specialists in their several fields
the respective club members
the various reports all agreed -
distinctly dissimilar or unlike
celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan
animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth
How To Use various In A Sentence
- By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
- He moved to Paris in 1767, and after a couple of years had become so popular that he received regular commissions to write two or three operas a year for various theatres.
- The men practised various traditional crafts, such as carving toys out of bone.
- Rocks block the highway in various places and mudflows cover what were once rose farms along the road's edge.
- Between 1906 and 1907, this wide-ranging businessman established steam-powered tramways in various localities across Japan.
- Central University Andolan samiti Jammu gets support of various bodies by Vijay Kumar Central University Andolan samiti Jammu gets support of various bodies
- Monks from the various orders in Europe had flocked to England to set up religious houses.
- This species is also closely associated with colonies of various seabirds and marine mammals; it feeds among birds and seals and has been considered a commensal of those colonial animals.
- This is not by any means the only instance of financial incompetence on the part of our various Scottish ancestors, nor indeed of the tendency to resort to violence, and those patterns offer surprisingly little reassurance from the genetic standpoint. Archive 2009-03-01
- Of course the appendix has always been subject to inflammation, just as it is now, but in former years the disease we call appendicitis bore various names, depending upon the diagnostic skill of the attending physician. Appendicitis