Both Uses of
manifold
in
The Magic Mountain
- It was not made up of tiny grains of rock, but, as everyone knew, consisted of myriads of water droplets, violently gathered up and frozen into manifold, symmetrical crystals— little pieces of an inorganic substance, the wellspring of protoplasm, of plants and human beings; and among all those myriads of magical stars in their secret, minuscule splendor never intended for the human eye, no two were alike.†
Chpt 6.7manifold = many and varied
- Assailed by manifold sensations, the young man's heart pounded hard as he held out his arm to give blood, and he turned slightly pale as he admired the splendid ruby red of the sap of life rising to fill glass tubes.†
Chpt 7.6 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(manifold as in: reasons are manifold) many and varied
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Manifold can also be used as a noun to refer to a pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes; such as "the intake manifold of an engine." A comprehensive dictionary will contain other, more specialized, meanings.