Meaning of different | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
2. Various, assorted, diverse.
3. In a different way or manner; otherwise: "Carol ... didn't know different until Elinor told her" (Ben Brantley).
4. (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...
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5. Distinct, separate; used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity.
6. 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...
7. Unlike most others; unusual.
8. diferente, distinto-a.
9. Unlike in form, quality, amount, or nature; dissimilar: took different approaches to the problem.
10. Distinct or separate: That's a different issue altogether.
11. Various or assorted: interviewed different members of the community.
12. Differing from all others; unusual: a different point of view.
13. partly or completely unlike
14. not identical or the same; other: he always wears a different tie.

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Examples

“— Is your grandpa any better? — No different. Still ill.”

“At Elizabeth-Jane mentioning how greatly Lucetta had been jeopardized, he exhibited an agitation different in kind no less than in intensity from any she had seen in him before.”

“One interesting feature was remarked by Dr. Peters, viz.: that the instrument used for the longitudes of the original catalogue was graduated differently to that used for the latitudes.”

“Enter the American tourist. He thinks of himself as a good guy but when he looks in the mirror to shave this good guy he has to admit that "well, other people are different from me and I don't really like them." This makes him feel guilty toward other people.”

“Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.”

“In any case, poor black respondents living in high-poverty neighborhoods are most likely to view their neighborhood as a single block or block group and to use this definition consistently when asked about different neighborhood characteristics and activities.”

“Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.”

“Several different scientists all reached this conclusion at about the same time.”

“What do you think of my new hairdo? - Well, it's different.”

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