At variance
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Variance \Va"ri*ance\, n. [L. variantia.]
1. The quality or state of being variant; change of
condition; variation.
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2. Difference that produces dispute or controversy;
disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.
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That which is the strength of their amity shall
prove the immediate author of their variance.
--Shak.
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3. (Law) A disagreement or difference between two parts of
the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought
to agree, -- as between the writ and the declaration, or
between the allegation and the proof. --Bouvier.
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4. (Statistics) The expected value of the square of the
deviation from the mean of a randomly distributed
variable; the second moment about the mean. This is also
the square of the {standard deviation}.
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{At variance}, in disagreement; in a state of dissension or
controversy; at enmity. "What cause brought him so soon at
variance with himself?" --Milton.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "at variance":
against the grain, against the tide, against the wind, alienated,
antagonistic, antiestablishment, antipathetic, assorted,
at cross-purposes, at daggers, at daggers drawn, at enmity,
at feud, at issue, at loggerheads, at odds, at odds with, at outs,
at square, at strife, at variance with, at war, at war with,
athwart, breakaway, clashing, contra, contradictory, contrariwise,
contrary, contrasted, contrasting, counter, counter-culture,
cranky, cross, departing, deviating, deviative, different,
differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing,
discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious,
disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissentient, dissenting,
dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished,
divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified,
eyeball-to-eyeball, grating, heterogeneous, hostile, immiscible,
in confrontation, in disagreement, in hostile array, in opposition,
inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant,
inharmonious, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, motley,
multifarious, negative, nonconforming, on the outs, opposing,
out of accord, out of whack, poles apart, poles asunder, recusant,
repugnant, sectarian, sectary, separate, separated, several,
unconformable, uncongenial, underground, unequal, unharmonious,
unlike, up in arms, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying,
widely apart, with crossed bayonets, worlds apart
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