See Also: Diverse(medicine)
diverse(1)(dictionary)
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diverse(dictionary)

lobe (iou) and diverse(2) (iou)


lobe (iou)



lobe noun. LME.
[Late Latin lobus from Greek lobos lobe of the ear or liver, capsule, pod.]
A roundish projecting part, usually one of two or more similar portions into which an object is divided by a fissure; esp. one of the divisions of the liver, lungs, brain, or Other organ. LME.
Roche lobe: see ROCHE noun2.
J. Bronowski The main organisation of the brain is in the frontal lobes and the prefrontal lobes.
Botany. A (chiefly rounded) projection or division of a leaf, petal, or Other organ of a plant; esp. one extending less than halfway to the centre. Formerly also, a pod, a capsule. L17.
= ear lobe s.v. EAR noun1. E18.
The larger or most important and projecting part of a cam-wheel. M19.
Geology. A great marginal projection from the body of a continental ice sheet. L19.
A portion of the radiation pattern of an aerial which represents a group of directions of stronger radiation and is bounded on each side by directions in which there is minimum radiation. E20.
Calligraphy. A curved projecting part of a letter. M20.
Comb.: lobe-fin a crossopterygian fish; lobe-finned adjective designating a crossopterygian fish.
lobed adjective having a lobe or lobes L18.
lobeless adjective (rare) M19.
lobelike adjective resembling (that of) a lobe M19.

diverse(2) (iou)



diverse adjective, pronoun, & adverb. ME.
[Var. of DIVERS, later infl. by adverse, perverse, etc.]
A. adjective.
Different in character or quality; not of the same kind; unlike in Nature or qualities. (Foll. by from, to.) ME.
H. Arendt They were a mixture of diverse elements: men as far apart as Zola and Peguy.
= DIVERS adjective 3. ME-E18.
= DIVERS adjective 2. LME-L15.
Differing from itself in different circumstances, at different times, or in different parts; varied; changeful. M16.
B. Jowett The diverse and multiform Nature of pleasure.
Distracting. rare (Spenser). Only in L16.
B. pronoun. = DIVERS pronoun. LME-E18.
C. adverb. Diversely. LME-E18.
diversely adverb ME.
diverseness noun (now rare) the quality or state of being diverse; diversity: LME.