Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The slope of a side of a mountain or mountain range.
- noun The general slope of a region.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Familiar; conversant; versed.
- In heraldry, carrying the wings erect and open.
- noun All that part of a country which slopes or inclines in one direction; the general lie or slope of surface; aspect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect.
- adjective rare Familiar; conversant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic
experienced ,practiced - adjective
conversant - noun a
slope of amountain or mountainridge - noun the overall slope of a region
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the side or slope of a mountain
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Filed in Music ·Tags: carah faye, carah faye charnow, versant
Versant Releases Full Demo Track – Hell Yes!! « Morgan Dempsey 2009
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Filed in Music ·Tags: carah faye, carah faye charnow, versant
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Filed in Music ·Tags: season of poison, shinies, shiny toy guns, versant
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Abstract: A distinctive new species of rattlesnake is described from the western versant of the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Filed in Music ·Tags: season of poison, shinies, shiny toy guns, versant
Music Review: Shiny Toy Guns – Season of Poison « Morgan Dempsey 2008
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A new species of arboreal pitviper from the Atlantic versant of northern Central America.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Inciting Revolution in Honduras? Real News 2009
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Unlike traditional cataloging, which has produced thousands of people versant in AACRII and MaRC, there are so many different metadata standards and technologies blooming all the time, that there is very little knowledge transfer in the typical mentor-mentee model.
Functions of Cataloging Scribe 2007
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Unlike traditional cataloging, which has produced thousands of people versant in AACRII and MaRC, there are so many different metadata standards and technologies blooming all the time, that there is very little knowledge transfer in the typical mentor-mentee model.
Archive 2007-12-01 Scribe 2007
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The vegetation communities of the Cauca Valley montane forests are very diverse and range from dry enclaves in the foothills of the eastern versant of the Western range of the Andes (precipitation 500-1,000 millimeters [mm]/year), to very humid forests on the middle and upper elevations of the western versant of the Central range (precipitation up to 3,000 mm/year).
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I mean the author of Origin of Species was really versant in…information theory NOT
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