What's the difference between variety and verity?

Variety


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.
  • (n.) That which is various.
  • (n.) A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks.
  • (n.) Something varying or differing from others of the same general kind; one of a number of things that are akin; a sort; as, varieties of wood, land, rocks, etc.
  • (n.) An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species.
  • (n.) In inorganic nature, one of those forms in which a species may occur, which differ in minor characteristics of structure, color, purity of composition, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
  • (2) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
  • (3) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
  • (4) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
  • (5) The E. coli used did not possess collagenolytic activity nor did a variety of common aerobic clinical isolates.
  • (6) The effects of H1 and H2 antihistamines on a variety of physiological vasodilator responses were examined.
  • (7) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (8) We have examined the in vitro membrane assembly characteristics of a variety of leader peptidase mutants and found that domains required for insertion in vivo are also necessary for insertion in vitro.
  • (9) A variety of nonspecific inhibitors produce approximately the same inhibition of both activities.
  • (10) A variety of homobifunctional crosslinking agents have been used to gain insight into the nature of the murine interleukin 3 (mIL-3) receptor.
  • (11) It was possible to classify the bacteriophages broadly, according to the variety of mutants that were resistant to them.
  • (12) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
  • (13) A variety of weak acids at and below their pK(a) are potent inhibitors of transport in Penicillium chrysogenum.
  • (14) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
  • (15) Production of glucose was a linear function of time for up to 120 min of incubation at 37 degrees C under a variety of conditions.
  • (16) Cytochrome P-450 is known to catalyze the following oxygen transfer reaction: RH + PhIO----ROH + PhI where RH represents a variety of hydroxylatable substrates and PhIO a variety of iodosobenzene derivatives that serve as oxygen donors, and neither molecular oxygen nor an external electron donor is required.
  • (17) Using this technique, genes were transferred into a variety of developing mouse tissues with high efficiency.
  • (18) Prior exposure and subsequent reactions can, however, take a wide variety of forms, and blanket avoidance may prevent many deserving patients from being transplanted.
  • (19) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
  • (20) A prospective, double-blind study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of oral dexamethasone premedication in reducing a variety of side effects associated with metrizamide myelography.

Verity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.
  • (n.) That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Verity said: "I would imagine that it's not impossible that over time the Wolds will become as well known as the Dales and other parts of Yorkshire … because of the Hockney effect.
  • (2) Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia by Verity Burgmann and Hans Baer Also from 2012, this book reports on a less well-known part of the movement.
  • (3) Separately, Verity James, a newsreader for ABC, told reporters she and a female producer were groped by Harris during a radio interview in 2000.
  • (4) 9.06am BST There are some eternal verities in politics and one of them is that British governments (especially Conservative-led ones) are always fighting a war on red tape.
  • (5) 2013 Verity Harding, a political adviser to Nick Clegg while he was deputy prime minister, takes a policy role at Google in London.
  • (6) Instead of a movie actress I once liked mildly for a season or two, I now only see an abstraction of the financial verities of modern movie superstardom.
  • (7) Martin Donnelly, permanent secretary of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), did not just wake up one morning and, on a whim, write a lengthy and carefully argued defence of the old Whitehall verities.
  • (8) Photograph: BBC Who knows, younger folk in particular might like hearing what’s really new and vital – especially if offered by dynamic and informed presenters such as Verity Sharp and Ian McMillan who don’t fall back on weary cliches or received opinions to communicate.
  • (9) Not to be outdone, Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, managed a "bonsoir" and a few "merci beaucoups" and even went for a Gallic kiss on Prudhomme's cheek at the end of the presentation.
  • (10) The bedroom tones of Verity Sharp and Fiona Talkington have enticed a cult audience to the late-night Radio 3 show, which jumps from Indian classical to American post-rock to British early music with an audacious rapidity that regularly outrages musical purists.
  • (11) Coalition’s climate policy 'best and most efficient' in the world, says Greg Hunt Read more This mirror reflecting back your own past verities could become a bit of a theme in your prime ministership, with all that you’ve said and all the things that now constrain you.
  • (12) It’s just part of the culture of the verity of certain things, to hold on to.
  • (13) On occasion, confirmation by the analyst of the verity of an experience in the patient's early life facilitates the analytic process.
  • (14) If so, he had done a masterful end-run around all the old verities of our own western economic development theory, systems and experience.
  • (15) Traditionalists in the Thatcher period clung to the old verities of national identity while struggling with the new, varied face of modern Britain.
  • (16) This belief has not been subjected to testing in clinical trials or laboratory experiments, and thus becomes a matter of belief rather than of scientific verity.
  • (17) Verity Lambert [the television producer] had no children of her own and was perhaps not conscious of the problems [facing working mothers], but she just wanted to have women in the workplace and make it possible for them."
  • (18) Dr Aaminah Verity A doctor of four years, Aaminah is now specialising in tropical medicine and international health in London.
  • (19) When they say “forget business versus society”, they mean “stop yammering on about human beings and get back to economic verities”.
  • (20) He's saying, 'Get back to the good old verities, you can't go out because you can't go out because you can't go out.'