diverseadj詞源 1/daɪˈvɜːs/

• 1

  Consisting of different elements; various.

• 2

  Capable of or having various forms in different situations or at different times; multiform.

  • [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.
• 3

  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.

  • 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.
• 4

  Of a person: belonging to a minority group.

  • 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.
• 5

  Not the same; different, dissimilar, distinct.

  • 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.
• 6

  obsoleteDiffering from what is good or right, or beneficial; bad, evil; harmful.

  • 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.
• 7

  obsoleteHaving different colours; mottled, variegated.

• 8

  obsoleterareCausing one to be indecisive between different viewpoints.

  • So many pathes, ſo many turnings ſeene, / That vvhich of them to take, in diuerſe doubt they been.

diverseadv詞源 1/daɪˈvɜːs/

• 1

  obsoleteSynonym of diversely (“in different directions”).

  • [The river in the Garden of Eden] novv divided into four main Streams, / Runs divers, vvandring many a famous Realme / And Country vvhereof here needs no account, […]
  • The Gourd, / And thirſty Cucumer, vvhen they perceive / Th' approaching Olive, vvith Reſentment fly / Her fatty Fibres, and vvith Tendrils creep / Diverſe, deteſting Contact; […]

diverseverb詞源 2/daɪˈvɜːs/

• 1

  Synonym of diversify.

  • 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.
• 2

  businessfinanceSynonym of diversify.

  • The investors in the SPC [special purpose company] derive their return, and well as diversing their risk, from three factors.
• 3

  obsoleterareTo go a different route or way from someone else; to diverge, to separate.

  • 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.