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variant
English
Alternative forms
- variaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
Recorded since c.1380, from Old French variant, from Latin vari?ns, the present active participle of vari? (“to change”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: vâr'?-?nt, IPA(key): /?v???i.?nt/, /?væ?i.?nt/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?v???i.?nt/
Adjective
variant (comparative more variant, superlative most variant)
- Showing variety, diverse.
- Showing deviation or disagreement.
- (obsolete) Variable.
- (programming) Covariant and/or contravariant.
Translations
Noun
variant (plural variants)
- Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
- All breeds of dog are variants of the species “Canis lupus familiaris”.
- The word "kerosine" is a variant of “kerosene”.
- (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
- (computing) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
- (linguistics, lexicography) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.
Related terms
- variance
- variation
- vary
Translations
See also
- alternate
- alternative
Anagrams
- nativar
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin vari?ns, attested from 1839.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /v?.?i?ant/
- (Central) IPA(key): /b?.?i?an/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /va.?i?ant/
Adjective
variant (masculine and feminine plural variants)
- varying
Noun
variant m (plural variants)
- variant
Related terms
- variar
References
Further reading
- “variant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “variant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “variant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French variant or variante, from Latin vari?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?va?.ri??nt/
- Hyphenation: va?ri?ant
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
variant m (plural varianten, diminutive variantje n)
- A variant.
Synonyms
- variante
Derived terms
Related terms
- variabiliteit
- variabel
- variatie
- variëren
- variëteit
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: varian
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.?j??/
Verb
variant
- present participle of varier
Adjective
variant (feminine singular variante, masculine plural variants, feminine plural variantes)
- varied, which varies; variable
Related terms
- variabilité
- variable
- variation
Further reading
- “variant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
variant
- third-person plural present active indicative of vari?
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin varians
Noun
variant m (definite singular varianten, indefinite plural varianter, definite plural variantene)
- a variant
References
- “variant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin varians
Noun
variant m (definite singular varianten, indefinite plural variantar, definite plural variantane)
- a variant
References
- “variant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Adjective
variant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular variant or variante)
- varying; which varies
Descendants
- ? English: variant
- French: variant
Swedish
Etymology
From French variante, attested from 1779.
Noun
variant c
- variant
Declension
Related terms
- variera
References
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strain
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?e??n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English streen, strene, streon, istreon (“race, stock, generation”), from Old English str?on, ?estr?on (“gain, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *streun? (“heap, treasure, profit, gain”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”) (cognate with Old Saxon gistriuni, Old High German gistriuni (“gain, property, wealth, business”), Latin strues (“heap”)). Confused in Middle English with the related noun strend, strynd, strund, from Old English str?nd (“race; stock”), from str?onan, str?nan (“to beget; acquire”). Related also to Dutch struinen (“to prowl, root about, rout”).
Noun
strain (plural strains)
- (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
- (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- (figuratively) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
- Synonyms: propensity, proneness
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies
- Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which being propogated, spoil the strain of a nation.
- (music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
- Synonyms: theme, motive, manner, style
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- (obsolete) Treasure.
- (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
Translations
Related terms
- strew
Etymology 2
From Middle English straynen, streinen, streynen, from Old French estreindre (whence French étreindre (“to grip”)), from Latin stringere (“to draw tight together, to tie”).
Verb
strain (third-person singular simple present strains, present participle straining, simple past and past participle strained)
- (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
- So hauing said, her twixt her armes twaine / She straightly straynd, and colled tenderly [...].
- Evander with a close embrace / Strained his departing friend.
- 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds
- "Farewell!"—the mother strained her child to her heart again, and again put her from her, to embrace her more closely.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
- To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
- to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship
- Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
- To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
- To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
- They strain their warbling throats / To welcome in the spring.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.
- To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
- to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
- 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 4
- There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.
- (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
- (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
- water straining through a sandy soil
- To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- 1641, John Denham, The Sophy
- [He] Still talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth / Is forc'd and strained.
- 1641, John Denham, The Sophy
- To urge with importunity; to press.
- to strain a petition or invitation
- (transitive) hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
Derived terms
- strain every nerve
Translations
Noun
strain (countable and uncountable, plural strains)
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- 1832, Charles Stewart Drewry (A.M.I.C.E.), A memoir on suspension bridges, page 183:
- If the Menai Bridge, for instance, were loaded at that rate, the entire strain on the main chains would be about 2000 tons ; while the chains containing 260 square inches of iron would bear, at 9 tons per square inch, 2340 tons, without stretching ...
- 2004, Sanjay Shrivastava, Medical Device Materials: Proceedings from the Materials & Processes for Medical Devices Conference 2003, 8-10 September 2003, Anaheim, California, ASM International (?ISBN), page 176:
- Therefore, the goal of this study is to assess the influence of strain on the corrosion resistance of passivated Nitinol and stainless steel implant materials. Materials and Methods Nitinol (50.8%at. Ni) wire (NDC, Fremont, CA) and 316L stainless ...
- 1832, Charles Stewart Drewry (A.M.I.C.E.), A memoir on suspension bridges, page 183:
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- (obsolete) The track of a deer.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 145:
- When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine, and oftentimes so take them.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 145:
Derived terms
- breaking strain
Translations
Related terms
- stress
- strict
- stringent
Etymology 3
From Middle English strenen (“to beget, father, procreate”), from Old English str?onan, str?enan, str?nan (“to beget, generate, gain, acquire”), from Proto-Germanic *striunijan? (“to furnish, decorate, acquire”).
Verb
strain (third-person singular simple present strains, present participle straining, simple past and past participle strained)
- (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.
Anagrams
- Sartin, Tarins, Trains, atrins, instar, santir, sartin, starin', tairns, tarins, trains
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