Vocabulary
Variant
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a form or version of something that differs in some respect from other forms of the same thing or from a standard.
Urdu meaning
مختلف، ذرا سی تبدیل شدہ نقل
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Trump`s second coming starting next week brings with it a more extreme variant of the worry.
- The word has various meanings depending upon the language you pronounce it in: in Urdu and Persian, it means a place and time; in Punjabi and Persian, a pronunciation variant would mean grass.
- In the subcontinental culture, anyone who sports adimple while smiling is also called mohni, a variant of `mun mohna`, the enchanter of hearts.
- From all accounts Dissanayake is not a Trotskyite variant of Don Quixote tilting at global capitalism.
- Early last month, WHO stated that the Clade 1b variant of the virus has evoked international concern due to `the ease with which it spreads through routine contact`; presenting flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions.
Synonyms
variation, form, alternative, alternative form, other form, different form, derived form
Antonyms
standard form, identical form, standard
Curator example
“clinically distinct variants of malaria”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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