Colorful vs Variety - What's the difference?
colorful | variety |
Possessing]] prominent and varied [[colour, colors.
* 1895 , The Annual of the British School at Athens
Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=H. Walter Staner and Henry Sturmey, title=The Autocar,
passage=One of the most colourful' people in motor racing, he writes in a ' colourful manner.}}
(euphemistic) Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language ).
* 2002 ,
The quality of being varied; diversity.
A specific variation of something.
A number of different things.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01, author=Katie L. Burke, volume=101, issue=1, page=64, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= A state of constant change.
(taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, below species and subspecies.
(cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
(cybernetics) Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
(linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect, accent, register, etc. and to its prestige level.
The class of all algebraic structures of a given signature satisfying a given set of identities.
As an adjective colorful
is possessing prominent and varied colors.As a noun variety is
the quality of being varied; diversity.colorful
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Alternative forms
* colourful (Commonwealth English)Adjective
(-)- It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
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- Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.
variety
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Alternative forms
* (rare)Noun
(varieties)Ecological Dependency, passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.}}
