version
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
education
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entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
medicine
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natural-sciences
ophthalmology
physical-sciences
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Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versiō, from Latin vertō (“to turn”). Used in English since 16th century.
Inflected forms:
form: versions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: versions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: versioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: versioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: versioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A specific form or variation of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ‘[…] 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—’
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.
gloss: A translation from one language to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It's only in the King James Version of the Bible.
gloss: A school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign language.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He gave another version of the affair.
gloss: A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Upgrade to the latest version for new features and bug fixes.
gloss: A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: External cephalic version is a process by which a breech baby can sometimes be turned from buttocks or foot first to head first.
The version of air into water.
gloss: An instrumental in sound system culture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Out of sound system culture came the instrumental “version” (ubiquitous in late 1960s Jamaica)[…]
gloss: To keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: ver
ver.
adaptation
interpretation
rendition
variant
Related words: abversion
adversion
animadversion
aversion
contraversion
controversion
conversion
diversion
eversion
furversion
interversion
inversion
obversion
perversion
reversion
subversion
traversion
Derived words: alpha version
beta version
Boston version
CliffsNotes version
cover version
e-version
instrumental version
miniversion
multiversion
pilot version
podalic version
pre-alpha version
Reader's Digest version
release version
subversion
-version
version control
version number
zombie version
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