version
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜːʒn̩/
ipa: /ˈvɜːʃn̩/
ipa: /ˈvɝʒən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
Forms: form: versions
Etymology: From Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versiō, from Latin vertō (“I turn”). Used in English since 16th century.
Senses: examples: text: ‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
ref: 2013 March 24, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 01 May 2013, page 114:
glosses: A specific form or variation of something.
examples: text: It's only in the King James Version of the Bible.
glosses: A translation from one language to another.
topics: education
glosses: A school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign language.
glosses: The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
examples: text: He gave another version of the affair.
glosses: An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
examples: text: Upgrade to the latest version for new features and bug fixes.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
examples: text: External cephalic version is a process by which a breech baby can sometimes be turned from buttocks or foot first to head first.
text: The version of air into water.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.
examples: text: Out of sound system culture came the instrumental “version” (ubiquitous in late 1960s Jamaica)[…]
ref: 2014, Richard James Burgess, The History of Music Production, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 168:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An instrumental in sound system culture.
Synonyms: word: ver
word: ver.
word: adaptation
word: interpretation
word: rendition
word: variant
Derived terms: alpha version
beta version
Boston version
CliffsNotes version
cover version
e-version
instrumental version
podalic version
pre-alpha version
Reader's Digest version
release version
version control
version number
zombie version