Definition of Version

Version

A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.

A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion.

The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.

A translation; that which is rendered from another language; as, the Common, or Authorized, Version of the Scriptures (see under Authorized); the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament.

An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account; as, he gave another version of the affair.

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Version Quotations

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran

My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.
Ray Charles

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
Larry David

I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.
Orlando Bloom

Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.
Justin Bieber

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'
Justin Bieber

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
David Icke

For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.
Reese Witherspoon

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
Matt Damon

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
Carroll Quigley

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
Thom Yorke

I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.
Mike Epps

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Lafcadio Hearn

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.
Dennis Rodman

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
Oliver North

I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
Ace Frehley

One of the things that make our version that much more heartbreaking is that even though I am playing a 24-year-old I look much younger. I look like a child.
Rooney Mara

There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.
Michael Stipe

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
Lionel Blue

I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression.
Deborah Cox

My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.
Deborah Cox

So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad.
Deborah Cox

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
Al Gore

I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
Usher Raymond

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel

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Version Translations

version in Afrikaans is versie
version in Dutch is uitvoering, versie
version in French is version
version in German is Ausgabe, Version, Version
version in Italian is versione, emissione
version in Swedish is version

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