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Definition: Variously |
VariouslyAdverb1. In diverse ways; "the alternatives that are variously represented by the participants"; "the speakers treated the subject most diversely". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "variously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: VariouslySynonyms: diversely (adv), multifariously (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nonuniformity | Adverb: variously, in all manner of ways, here there and everywhere. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Business | Immobilizers and other automotive electronic sensing/control equipment are variously categorized under the generic heading of electronic control equipment and carry varying rates of duties. (references) | |
Economic History | West Bank | Subsequent Israeli redeployment from most of Gaza and the major urban areas of the West Bank including Jericho, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Qalqilya and most of Hebron extended PA control over a majority of the Palestinian population in WB/G. In democratic elections in January 1996, Yasser Arafat won 90% of the vote for the position of Ra'ees (which is translated variously as "chairman" or "president"). (references) |
Political Economy | POLAND | Existing regulatory structures are variously faulted for the excessive burden imposed on businesses, lack of transparency and predictability, and lack of effectiveness. (references) |
Worker Rights | Philippines | Victims of trafficking, typically single women between the ages of 20 and 29, variously report being confined or detained, denied money or food, being held in debt servitude, deprived of normal social interaction, and forced to work long hours. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now believed by naturalist to be extinct, though a clergyman of the Church of England saw three near Colchester as lately as 1855, while passing through a park after dining with the lord of the manor. The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent. In the year 1807 a troop of fairies visited a wood near Aix and carried off the daughter of a peasant, who had been seen to enter it with a bundle of clothing. The son of a wealthy bourgeois disappeared about the same time, but afterward returned. He had seen the abduction been in pursuit of the fairies. Justinian Gaux, a writer of the fourteenth century, avers that so great is the fairies' power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing armies and fight a battle with great slaughter, and that the next day, after it had resumed its original shape and gone away, there were seven hundred bodies of the slain which the villagers had to bury. He does not say if any of the wounded recovered. In the time of Henry III, of England, a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for "Kyllynge, wowndynge, or mamynge" a fairy, and it was universally respected. |
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| "Variously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Variously" is used about 397 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 397 | 14,057 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "variously": ad variously. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "variously": variously-leaved pondweed, variously-sized, variously-styled. | |
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| Language | Translations for "variously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不同地 (Differently, Diversely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | makroaetsning og Baumann-aftryk af langssnit gennem blokkens akse udviser moerke linier,der er afboejet noget opad i retning af aksen i blokkens top,og som kaldes omvendte V-sejgringer eller A-sejgringer (macroetches and sulphur prints of an axial section of an ingot show dark lines inclined slightly upwards towards the upper axis of the ingot. These are known variously as inverse V-Segregates or A-segregates). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | macro-etsen en Baumann-afdrukken van de langsdoorsnede van een gietblok maakt donkere lijnen zichtbaar die iets hellen in de richting van de kop van het blok en die omgekeerde of inverse V-uitscheidingen of ook A-uitscheidingen worden genoemd (macroetches and sulphur prints of an axial section of an ingot show dark lines inclined slightly upwards towards the upper axis of the ingot. These are known variously as inverse V-Segregates or A-segregates). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | les attaques macrographiques et les empreintes Baumann sur coupe axiale de lingot montrent des lignes sombres un peu inclinées vers l'axe tête du lingot, que l'on désigne par ségrégations en V-inversé ou en A (macroetches and sulphur prints of an axial section of an ingot show dark lines inclined slightly upwards towards the upper axis of the ingot. These are known variously as inverse V-Segregates or A-segregates). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verschiedenartige, verschiedenartig (different, diverse, heterogeneous, miscellaneous, varied, various). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ποικιλοτρόπωσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Gli attacchi macroscopici e le impronte Baumann in sezioni longitudinali dell'asse del lingotto rendono visibili delle linee oscure che sono inclinate all'incirca nella direzione dell'asse della testa del lingotto e che vengono chiamate segregazioni a V i (macroetches and sulphur prints of an axial section of an ingot show dark lines inclined slightly upwards towards the upper axis of the ingot. These are known variously as inverse V-Segregates or A-segregates). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 각종 으로. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | dy anchasley. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ariouslyvay os ataques macrográficos e as impressões Baumann em corte axial do lingote mostram linhas escuras um pouco inclinadas para o eixo da cabeça do lingote,que se designam por segregações em V-invertido ou em A (macroetches and sulphur prints of an axial section of an ingot show dark lines inclined slightly upwards towards the upper axis of the ingot. These are known variously as inverse V-Segregates or A-segregates). (various references) los ataques macrográficos y las huellas Baumann en las secciones longitudinales del eje del lingote dejan ver líneas oscuras que están un poco inclinadas en la dirección del eje de la cabeza del lingote y que se denominan segregaciones en V invertida (macroetches and sulphur prints of an axial section of an ingot show dark lines inclined slightly upwards towards the upper axis of the ingot. These are known variously as inverse V-Segregates or A-segregates). (various references) på olika sätt, omväxlande (alternat, alternate, alternately, diversified, variegated, various). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Variously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vacriously. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "variously" (pronounced ve"rēuslē) |
| 7 | -e" r ē u s l ē | hilariously, precariously, vicariously. |
| 6 | -r ē u s l ē | curiously, furiously, gloriously, laboriously, mysteriously, notoriously, seriously. |
| 5 | -ē u s l ē | contemporaneously, enviously, erroneously, harmoniously, hideously, instantaneously, obviously, previously, simultaneously, spontaneously, studiously, tediously, unceremoniously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | aimlessly, ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, capriciously, carelessly, cautiously, ceaselessly, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, expeditiously, fabulously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, generously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmlessly, hellaciously, helplessly, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, intravenously, jealously, judiciously, listlessly, ludicrously, maliciously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, needlessly, nervously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, posthumously, precipitously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, shamelessly, strenuously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tenaciously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unanimously, unconsciously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-o-r-s-u-v-y" | |
-1 letter: savorily. | |
-2 letters: olivary, ovulary, saviour, savoury, valours, various. | |
-3 letters: aliyos, ovular, rivals, riyals, rosily, royals, sailor, salvor, savior, savory, savour, souari, sourly, urials, valors, valour, violas, visual. | |
-4 letters: arils, arvos, aryls, auris, aviso, ivory, lairs, laris, liars, liras, loris, louis, lours, loury, lousy, orals, ovals, ovary, rails, rials, rival, riyal, roils, roily, royal, salvo, saury, savor, savoy, silva, solar, sural, surly, sylva, ulvas, urial, vails, vairs, valor, varus, vials, viola, viols, viral, virls, virus, visor, voila, volar, yours. | |
-5 letters: ails, airs, airy, also, aril, arvo, aryl, avos, lair, lari, lars, lavs, lays, liar, lira, lory, lour, luvs, oars, oils, oily, oral, osar, ours, oval, rail, rays, rial, rias, roil, rosy, ruly, ryas, sail, sari, saul, sial, silo, slay, slur, soar, soil, sola, soli, sora, sori, soul, sour, soya, sura, syli, ulva, ursa, vail, vair, vars, vary, vaus, vial, viol, virl, visa, your. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-o-r-s-u-v-y" | |
+2 letters: vagariously, veraciously, vicariously, voraciously. | |
+3 letters: avariciously, chivalrously, viviparously, voluntaryism, voluntaryist. | |
+4 letters: carnivorously, convulsionary, intravenously, voluntaryisms, voluntaryists. | |
+5 letters: unchivalrously, vaingloriously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 72 69 6F 75 73 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- .-. .. --- ..- ... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a r i o u s l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0072 0069 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)566784758187857891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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