diverse
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
The adjective is derived from Middle English divers, diverse (“different, divergent”), from Anglo-Norman divers, Anglo-Norman divers, and Old French divers (“different; of various kinds”) (modern French divers), and directly from their etymon Latin dīversus (“different, diverse”), an adjective use of the perfect passive participle of dīvertō (“to divert, turn away”), from dī- (variant of dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’)) + vertō (“to turn”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate; to turn”)). Doublet of divert.
The adverb is derived from Middle English diverse (“differently; at various times”), from divers, diverse (adjective) (see above).
Inflected forms:
form: more diverse
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diverse
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: diuers
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: divers
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: diverses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: diversing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: diversed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: diversed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of different elements; various.
pos: adj
gloss: Capable of or having various forms in different situations or at different times; multiform.
pos: adj
examples: [T]he diverse mone abowt, / Now bryght, now browne, now bent, now full, and now her lyght is owt.
Eloquence is a great and diverse thing.
gloss: Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: of a community, organization, etc.: composed of people with a variety of different demographic characteristics such as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status; especially, having a sizeable representation of people who are minorities in the community, organization, etc.
pos: adj
examples: The stage reflected the increasingly diverse Democratic party in which women and people of color are ascendant. Three women – two more than have ever shared a stage during a presidential primary debate and one of whom is Hindu – a Latino former congressman and a black senator participated.
gloss: Not the same; different, dissimilar, distinct.
pos: adj
examples: And they gaue them drinke in veſſels of gold, (the veſſels being diuers one from another) and royall wine in abundance, according to the ſtate of the king.
[T]h' old Chäos (vvombe of th' Universe) / VVas never made of Members more diverſe.
But it muſt be obſerved concerning moral Inability, in each Kind of it, that the VVord Inability is uſed in a Senſe very diverſe from its original Import. […] The VVord ſignifies only a natural Inability, in the proper Uſe of it; […] It can't be truly ſaid, according to the ordinary Uſe of Language, that a malicious Man, let him be never ſo malicious, can't hold his Hand from ſtriking, […]
‘Our roads are diverse: farewell, love!’ said she. / ‘’Tis duty I abide by: homely sward / And not the rock-rough picturesque for me![’]
Intelligence contemplates all it sees— / Albeit but a point in the infinite / Universe—with but two rays of light, / Which illustrate diversest destinies; […]
This is what collectivism forgot — the freedom to be diverse, and the conception of each diverse individual being inherently of equal value and having open-ended potential for contribution.
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
gloss: Of a person: belonging to a minority group.
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
examples: The Board's [i.e., Board of Governors'] goal is to commit to doubling the number of women and diverse members of the Academy by 2020.
Here to comment is diverse Congresswoman from Ohio—please welcome representative Marcia Fudge.
[Mike] Richards came under fierce criticism since he was formally hired to emcee the legendary quiz show, with some longtime fans saying they believed the producers should have selected a more diverse candidate for the job, such as the actor and presenter LeVar Burton.
gloss: Differing from what is good or right, or beneficial; bad, evil; harmful.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: This kyng Edward the .ii. father to the noble kyng Edward the .iii. had .ii. bretherñ⸝ the one called Marſhall⸝ who was ryght wyld ⁊ diuers of condicions⸝ the other called ſir Aymon erle of Cane right wyse⸝ amiable⸝ gẽtle [gentle] and wellbeloued with al people.
[Y]ou that beſt ſhould teach vs, / Haue miſdemean'd your ſelfe, and not a little: / Tovvard the King firſt, then his Lavves, in filling / The vvhole Realme, by your teaching & your Chaplaines / (for ſo vve are inform'd) vvith nevv opinions, / Diuers and dangerous; vvhich are Hereſies; / And not reform'd, may proue pernicious.
gloss: Having different colours; mottled, variegated.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Causing one to be indecisive between different viewpoints.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
rare
examples: So many pathes, ſo many turnings ſeene, / That vvhich of them to take, in diuerſe doubt they been.
gloss: Synonym of diversify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I Dyuerſe[,] I make difference⸝ Ie diuerſifie, prime coniu.
In the Eocene, when the Old World and American mammal fauna were more nearly related, we have a hypothetical genus, Archipithecus, from which diversed a branch giving rise to the platyrhine apes, the families Cebidæ and Hapalidæ.
Nature does have a way of altering and diversing wetlands, streams and portholes through a period of a long range of years.
gloss: Synonym of diversify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The investors in the SPC [special purpose company] derive their return, and well as diversing their risk, from three factors.
gloss: To go a different route or way from someone else; to diverge, to separate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
rare
examples: Then each to other vvell affectionate, / Friendſhip profeſſed vvith vnfained hart, / The Redcroſſe knight diuerſt, but forth rode Britomart.
We regret that the gentleman diversed so widely from the subject before the committee.
Related words: divert
diversity
Derived words: antidiverse
biodiverse
divers
diversative
diversely
diverseness
diversitude
gender diverse
geodiverse
hyperdiverse
megadiverse
microdiverse
multidiverse
neurodiverse
nondiverse
overdiverse
phytodiverse
polydiverse
pyrodiverse
regiodiverse
superdiverse
ultradiverse
undiverse
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