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WDP starts out a little confused: it has both a Foreword and a Preface (they are, as far as I know, merely Germanic and Latin variant names of the same sort of thing).
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- adjective Having or exhibiting variation; differing.
- adjective Tending or liable to vary; variable.
- adjective Deviating from a standard, usually by only a slight difference.
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WDP starts out a little confused: it has both a Foreword and a Preface (they are, as far as I know, merely Germanic and Latin variant names of the same sort of thing).
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1 -
Another variant is "... some say I am, I say I ain't"
— New Minglewood Blues -
In the Deadwood variant above, the dealer would be nominating which poker variant is being played - five card or seven card stud, draw or hold-em - within the overall table parameters of Hi-lo and Jacks.
— The WELL: Me And My Uncle -
A stronger variant is PFM ` Pure Fucking Magic. '
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1 -
(1) a variant is "You must mean water when you get on your knees and you beg me for blood"
— Blow Away
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- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin variāns, variant-, present participle of variāre, to vary; see vary.
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/ (vârˈē-ənt, vărˈ-)/
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