All English words - page 4067

Meanings of Variometer:

noun

A device for indicating an aircraft's rate of climb or descent.

Usage examples:

There are several other kinds of lift, but a paragliding variometer is mostly used for thermal lift.

Meanings of Variorum:

adjective

(of an edition of an author's works) having notes by various editors or commentators.

Usage examples:

Fisher's great book has been reissued in a variorum edition.

noun

A variorum edition.

Usage examples:

Though one does not usually think of scholarly variorums as narratives, they in fact are.

Meanings of Variorums:

noun

A variorum edition.

Usage examples:

Though one does not usually think of scholarly variorums as narratives, they in fact are.

adjective

(of an edition of an author's works) having notes by various editors or commentators.

Usage examples:

Fisher's great book has been reissued in a variorum edition.

Meanings of Various:

determiner

More than one; several.

Usage examples:

Various people arrived late

adjective

Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts.

Usage examples:

Dresses of various colours

pronoun

More than one of several people or things.

Usage examples:

Various of her friends had called

Meanings of Varistor:

noun

A semiconductor diode with resistance dependent on the applied voltage.

Usage examples:

The range is built by optimising combinations of various styles of inductors with the appropriate c…

Meanings of Varistors:

noun

A semiconductor diode with resistance dependent on the applied voltage.

Usage examples:

The range is built by optimising combinations of various styles of inductors with the appropriate c…

Meanings of Varix:

noun

A varicose vein.

Usage examples:

Health results include varices (enlarged tortuous veins) at the lower end of the esophagus that can…

Meanings of Varlet:

noun

A man or boy acting as an attendant or servant.

Usage examples:

Even among those who rank, at least by economic criteria, as middle-class, the most proximate prece…

Meanings of Varlets:

noun

A man or boy acting as an attendant or servant.

Usage examples:

Even among those who rank, at least by economic criteria, as middle-class, the most proximate prece…

Meanings of Varmint:

noun

A troublesome wild animal.

Usage examples:

The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or dome…

Meanings of Varna:

noun

Each of the four hindu castes, brahman, kshatriya, vaisya, and sudra.

Usage examples:

Hinduism recognises four varnas based on occupation (jati or jat) and ancestry.

proper noun

A port and resort in eastern bulgaria, on the western shores of the black sea; population 318,313 (2008).

Meanings of Varnas:

noun

Each of the four hindu castes, brahman, kshatriya, vaisya, and sudra.

Usage examples:

Hinduism recognises four varnas based on occupation (jati or jat) and ancestry.

proper noun

A port and resort in eastern bulgaria, on the western shores of the black sea; population 318,313 (2008).

Meanings of Varnishes:

noun

Resin dissolved in a liquid for applying on wood, metal, or other materials to form a hard, clear, shiny surface when dry.

Usage examples:

Several coats of varnish

verb

Apply varnish to.

Usage examples:

We stripped the floor and varnished it

Meanings of Varnishing:

verb

Apply varnish to.

Usage examples:

We stripped the floor and varnished it

noun

Resin dissolved in a liquid for applying on wood, metal, or other materials to form a hard, clear, shiny surface when dry.

Usage examples:

Several coats of varnish

Meanings of Varsities:

noun

University.

Usage examples:

He had his hair cut when he got back from varsity

Meanings of Varsity:

noun

University.

Usage examples:

He had his hair cut when he got back from varsity

Meanings of Varuna:

proper noun

One of the gods in the rig veda. originally the sovereign lord of the universe and guardian of cosmic law, he is known in later hinduism as god of the waters.

Meanings of Varus:

noun

A deformity involving oblique displacement of part of a limb towards the midline.

Usage examples:

The lower extremities were equal in length, and no varus or valgus deformity of the knee was present.

Meanings of Varves:

noun

A pair of thin layers of clay and silt of contrasting colour and texture which represent the deposit of a single year (summer and winter) in a lake. such layers can be measured to determine the chronology of glacial sediments.

Usage examples:

Each summer/winter pair of layers - called varves - would thus represent a single year.

Meanings of Varying:

adjective

Differing in size, amount, degree, or nature.

Usage examples:

Varying degrees of success

verb

Differ in size, amount, degree, or nature from something else of the same general class.

Usage examples:

The properties vary in price

Meanings of Varyingly:

adverb

In a way that changes or is different in amount or level, especially among similar things

Usage examples:

They found that different types of land respond varyingly to the greenhouse effect., she has writte…

Meanings of Vasa:

noun

A vessel or duct.

Plural of vas deferens specialized

Meanings of Vascula:

noun

A container used by botanists when collecting plants, typically in the form of a flattened cylindrical metal case with a lengthwise opening, carried by a shoulder strap.

Usage examples:

Many plants may be kept in the vasculum for several days if needed without sustaining injury.

Meanings of Vascularize:

verb

Provide (a tissue or structure) with vessels, especially blood vessels; make vascular.

Usage examples:

The stem cells can start growing vessels to help vascularize the graft

Meanings of Vascularized:

adjective

(of a tissue or structure) provided with vessels, especially blood vessels; made vascular.

Usage examples:

Vascularized pelvic fins

verb

Provide (a tissue or structure) with vessels, especially blood vessels; make vascular.

Usage examples:

The stem cells can start growing vessels to help vascularize the graft