"a new strain of microorganisms"
"an experimental version of the night fighter"
"a variant of the same word"
"an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"
"the boy is a younger edition of his father"
"a variant spelling"
"letters variant in size"
Instances of variant readings in the Hebrew.
出自: F. W. Farrar
The variant spelling prophesy is..now confined to the verb.
出自:Oxford English Dictionary