Divers vs Variety - What's the difference?
divers | variety |
, in the sense of various or assorted.
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The quality of being varied; diversity.
A specific variation of something.
A number of different things.
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* {{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 nouns the difference between divers and variety
is that divers is monster while variety is the quality of being varied; diversity.As an adjective divers
is various.divers
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Etymology 1
See (diver)Noun
(head)Etymology 2
See (diverse)Adjective
(en adjective)- And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
- Shortly after this I had to go out of town. Divers sound sportsmen had invited me to pay visits to their country places, and it wasn't for several months that I settled down in the city again.
Anagrams
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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.}}