difference
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: algebra
government
heraldry
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
logic
mathematics
monarchy
nobility
philosophy
politics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Italic *ferō
Latin ferō
Latin differō
Latin differēns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin differentiader.
Old French differencebor.
Middle English difference
English difference
From Middle English difference, from Old French difference, from Latin differentia (“difference”), from differēns (“different”), present participle of differre. Doublet of differentia. Morphologically differ + -ence.
Base: differ
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: differences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: differences
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: differencing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: differenced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: differenced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being different.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.
gloss: A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: A disagreement or argument.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
gloss: Choice; preference.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: That now be chooseth with vile difference
 To be a beast, and lack intelligence.
gloss: An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B).
pos: noun
tags: countable
relational
uncountable
gloss: To distinguish or differentiate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: This simple spectation of the lungs is differenced from that which concomitates a pleurisy.
[…] and souls, like in the mass, but differenced in themselves, with special gifts, duties and joys […]
In the Calais Roll the arms of William de Warren […] are differenced by the addition of a canton said to be that of Fitzalan […]
gloss: to modify a heraldic emblem so as to distinguish one branch of a house from another
pos: verb
Synonyms: difference
differentiation
differentness
distinction
distinguishedness
nonidentity
unidenticality
diversity
Antonyms: identity
identicality
identicalness
sameness
Related words: successor
× =
× ×... =
log(base) =
differ
different
differential
differentiate
differentiation
Derived words: age difference
antidifference
as near as makes no difference
common difference
creative differences
deflection difference
diff
difference engine
difference equation
difference gate
difference-maker
difference maker
difference-making
difference of opinion
difference of two squares
difference quotient
difference set
distinction without a difference
electric potential difference
equidifference
finite difference
goal difference
know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground
know the difference between one's ass and one's elbow
learning difference
make a difference
make all the difference
make the difference
mass difference
nondifference
photodifference
point of difference
potential difference
same difference
set difference
set-theoretic difference
size difference
split the difference
spot the difference
symmetric difference
tell the difference
time difference
undifferenced
vive la difference
what's the difference
world of difference
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