Meaning of difference | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being different
2. The quality of being different.
   uncountable
3. A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else
4. To distinguish or differentiate.
5. A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
   countable
6. (often with from) not the same. These gloves are not a pair – they're different; My ideas are different from his. verskil van مُخْتَلِف различен diferente rozdílný, odlišný verschieden forskellig διαφορετικόςdiferente erinev متفاوت؛ مختلف erilainen différentשונה अलग različit eltérő tidak sama mismunandi diverso 異なった 다른 skirtingas atšķirīgs, citāds berbeza verschillendforskjellig, annerledesróżny, niepodobny ، توپير دموټر هغه ګير چه ګړ نديتوب ته تغيير وركوې diferente di­fe­rit (de) разный odli...
   often with
7. A disagreement or argument
8. A disagreement or argument.
   countable
9. onderskeiding, begunstiging تَفْريق، تَمْييز разграничаване diferenciação rozlišování die Unterscheidung skelnen; differentiering διαφοροποίησηdiferenciación vahetegemine تشخیص؛ تمایز erilaistuminen différenciationבידול, הבחנה भेद-भाव razlikovanje megkülönböztetés diferensiasi sundurgreining, aðgreining differenziazione 区別 차별화 atskyrimas, diferencijavimas diferencēšana; atšķiršana kelainan onderscheidingdifferensiering; forskjellsbehandling odróżnianie, różnicowanie تشخیص diferenciação difere...
10. Significant change in or effect on a situation or state
11. Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
    countable, uncountable
12. The quality or condition of being unlike or dissimilar.
13. The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result
14. The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
    countable
15. An instance of disparity or unlikeness: There is a big difference in sound between a clarinet and an oboe.
16. Choice; preference.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
17. A noticeable change or effect: Exercise has made a difference in her health.
18. An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
    countable, uncountable
19. A disagreement or controversy: Let's settle our differences.
20. The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
    countable, uncountable
21. Discrimination in taste or choice; distinction: In this case, the law should make no difference between young and old.
22. A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB).
    countable, uncountable
23. Mathematics a. The amount by which one quantity is greater or less than another.
    Mathematics
24. The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B).
    countable, relational, uncountable
25. the state or quality of being unlike

Equivalents

Examples

“You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.”

“There are three differences between these two pictures.”

“But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

“We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.”

“What was the difference? It was a contention in public.”

“Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could.”

“It just won't make much difference to me.”

“It just won't make much of a difference to anyone.”

“The line of the horizon was clear and hard against the sky, and in one particular quarter it showed black against a silvery climbing phosphorescence that grew and grew. At last, over the rim of the waiting earth the moon lifted with slow majesty till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off, free of moorings; and once more they began to see surfaces—meadows wide-spread, and quiet gardens, and the river itself from bank to bank, all softly disclosed, all washed clean of mystery and terror, all radiant again as by day, but with a difference that was tremendous.”

“As she did so Fanny put down her book , stood up and stretched her arms, and at once Jessamy noticed a difference. It was the same Fanny but not the Fanny who climbed trees and tore her frock playing in the garden. It was as though a young lady film had settled over her, neatening her unruly hair, which was tied back with a large black bow, and primly composing her small mouth.”

“The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.”

“That now be chooseth with vile difference To be a beast, and lack intelligence.”

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