Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: variations
IPA transcription: [v,ɛɹi'eɪʃənz]
Pronunciations of variations
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Usage examples
  • History repeats itself--with variations.
  • Religions, as well as their variations, appear as new branches do upon an old tree.
  • The other varies in proportion as it affects various bodies, and by its variations is the cause of the succession of days, months, and years.
  • While sight thus failed me, sound was equally unavailing, for it was always the same--a sustained and unintermittent roar, a low, droning sound, deep and terrible, with no variations of dashing breakers or rushing rapids or falling cataracts.
  • These fundamental variations and the presence of duplicate versions of the same incidents point, some writers think, to two originally distinct accounts of the flood which have been closely woven together by the final editor of the book of Genesis.
  • Mr. Falkland, who was most painfully alive to every thing that related to his honour, saw these variations, and betrayed his consciousness of them now in one manner, and now in another, frequently before I was myself aware, sometimes almost before they existed.
  • A rich organisation and heritage, while they predetermine the core of all possible variations, increase their number, since every advance opens up new vistas; and growth, in extending the periphery of the substance organised, multiplies the number of points at which new growths may begin.
  • Or have successive variations been accumulated and determined as a protection, or for some unknown purpose, or that one sex may be attractive to the other? And, again, what is the meaning of the colours being widely different in the males and females of certain species, and alike in the two sexes of other species of the same genus?
  • He would remain for whole nights together under the naked cope of heaven, inattentive to the consideration either of place or time; insensible to the variations of the weather, or rather seeming to be delighted with that uproar of the elements, which partially called off his attention from the discord and dejection that occupied his own mind.
  • No better illustration of this characteristic can be found than in the development of the nickel pocket for the storage battery, an element the size of a short lead-pencil, on which upward of five years were spent in experiments, costing over a million dollars, day after day, always apparently with the same tubes but with small variations carefully tabulated in the note-books.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Bobcat, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording BBC Radio 4, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hubble Space Telescope, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Climate change, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Helicobacter pylori, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Milgram experiment, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Parity of zero, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Introduction to evolution, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Masala chai, License CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording History of the Grand Canyon area, License CC BY-SA 4.0