Difference

English

Etymology

Template:Root From Template:Inh, from Template:Der, from Template:Der, from Template:M, present participle of Template:M. Template:Doublet. Morphologically Template:Suffix.

Pronunciation

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Noun

1. Template:Lb The quality of being different.

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2. Template:Lb A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.

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3. Template:Lb A disagreement or argument.

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   • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline
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4. Template:Lb Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.

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   • Template:RQ:Grahame Wind in the Willows
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5. Template:Senseid Template:Lb The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.

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6. Template:Lb Choice; preference.
   • Template:RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene
7. Template:Lb An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See Template:M and Template:M.
8. Template:Lb The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
9. Template:Lb A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ($A\bar{B}+\bar{A}B$).
10. Template:Lb The set of elements that are in one set but not another ($A\bar{B}$).

Synonyms

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Translations

• Albanian: Template:T+
• Arabic: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T

  Hijazi Arabic: Template:T, Template:T

  Moroccan Arabic: Template:T

  South Levantine Arabic: Template:T, Template:T

• Armenian: Template:T+
• Azerbaijani: Template:T+, Template:T
• Baluchi: Template:T, Template:T
• Bashkir: Template:T
• Belarusian: Template:T
• Bengali: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Bhojpuri: Template:T
• Bulgarian: Template:T+, Template:T
• Burmese: Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+
• Cebuano: Template:T
• Chechen: Template:T
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: Template:T+, Template:T+

• Crimean Tatar: Template:T, Template:T
• Czech: Template:T+
• Danish: Template:T+
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Esperanto: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T-check
• Estonian: Template:T+
• Ewe: Template:T
• Faroese: Template:T
• Finnish: Template:T+
• French: Template:T+
• Galician: Template:T+
• Georgian: Template:T
• German: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T
• Gothic: Template:T
• Greek: Template:T+

  Ancient: Template:T

• Hebrew: Template:T, Template:T+
• Hindi: Template:T, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Icelandic: Template:T+
• Ido: Template:T+
• Indonesian: Template:T+
• Irish: Template:T
• Italian: Template:T+
• Japanese: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Kannada: Template:T+
• Kazakh: Template:T, Template:T
• Khmer: Template:T+, Template:T, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Korean: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: Template:T

• Kyrgyz: Template:T+
• Lao: Template:T
• Latin: Template:T+
• Latvian: Template:T, Template:T
• Lithuanian: Template:T+
• Luxembourgish: Template:T
• Macedonian: Template:T
• Malay: Template:T
• Malayalam: Template:T+
• Marathi: Template:T, Template:T
• Middle English: Template:T
• Mongolian: Template:T+
• Nepali: Template:T, Template:T+
• Norwegian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T
• Occitan: Template:T+
• Odia: Template:T+
• Old English: Template:T
• Old Javanese: Template:T
• Pashto: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Persian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Romanian: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Samoan: Template:T
• Scottish Gaelic: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Template:T

  Roman: Template:T+

• Slovak: Template:T
• Slovene: Template:T
• Spanish: Template:T+, Template:T
• Swahili: Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Tabasaran: Template:T
• Tajik: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Tamil: Template:T+
• Tatar: Template:T+
• Telugu: Template:T+
• Thai: Template:T+
• Turkish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Turkmen: Template:T, Template:T
• Ukrainian: Template:T+
• Urdu: Template:T, Template:T
• Uyghur: Template:T, Template:T
• Uzbek: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Vietnamese: Template:T+
• Walloon: Template:T+
• Yiddish: Template:T
• Yucatec Maya: Template:T
• Zazaki: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T+

• Albanian : Template:T+
• Arabic: Template:T, Template:T
• Armenian: Template:T-needed
• Bashkir: Template:T
• Basque: Template:T
• Bengali: Template:T+
• Bulgarian: Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+
• Cebuano: Template:T, Template:T
• Crimean Tatar: Template:T
• Czech: Template:T+
• Danish: Template:T+
• Dutch: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Esperanto: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Estonian: Template:T+
• Ewe: Template:T
• Finnish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• French: Template:T+
• Georgian: Template:T
• German: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+

  Ancient: Template:T

• Hebrew: Template:T+
• Hindi: Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Ido: Template:T+
• Indonesian: Template:T+
• Irish: Template:T
• Italian: Template:T+
• Japanese: Template:T+,
• Khmer: Template:T+
• Latin: Template:T+
• Latvian: Template:T, Template:T
• Lithuanian: Template:T+
• Macedonian: Template:T
• Malayalam: Template:T+
• Middle English: Template:T
• Mongolian: Template:T-needed
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Template:T+, Template:T

  Nynorsk: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T

• Old English: Template:T
• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Romanian: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T
• Sanskrit: Template:T+
• Scottish Gaelic: Template:T, Template:T
• Slovene: Template:T+
• Spanish: Template:T+, Template:T
• Swedish: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Tatar: Template:T
• Telugu: Template:T+
• Thai: Template:T+
• Tocharian B: Template:T
• Turkish: Template:T+
• Vietnamese: Template:T, Template:T
• Walloon: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Yiddish: Template:T, Template:T
• Yucatec Maya: Template:T

• Arabic: Template:T, Template:T
• Bulgarian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+
• Cebuano: Template:T, Template:T
• Crimean Tatar: Template:T
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Finnish: Template:T+, Template:T
• French: Template:T+
• Georgian: Template:T
• German: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+
• Hindi: Template:T+
• Indonesian: Template:T+check
• Khmer: Template:T
• Malayalam: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Middle English: Template:T
• Nepali: Template:T
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+
• Spanish: Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T
• Telugu: Template:T+
• Thai: Template:T
• Vietnamese: Template:T
• Walloon: Template:T

• Arabic: Template:T
• Armenian: Template:T+
• Bashkir: Template:T
• Belarusian: Template:T
• Bulgarian: Template:T+
• Cebuano: Template:T
• Czech: Template:T+
• Danish: Template:T
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Esperanto: Template:T
• Finnish: Template:T+
• French: Template:T+
• Georgian: Template:T
• German: Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+
• Hebrew: Template:T+
• Hindi: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Icelandic: Template:T
• Ido: Template:T+
• Indonesian: Template:T+
• Irish: Template:T
• Italian: Template:T+
• Japanese: Template:T+
• Khmer: Template:T
• Korean: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Lao: Template:T
• Macedonian: Template:T
• Maori: Template:T
• Middle English: Template:T
• Persian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Romanian: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Serbo-Croatian: Template:T+
• Slovene: Template:T+
• Spanish: Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Tagalog: Template:T
• Telugu: Template:T+
• Thai: Template:T
• Turkish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Ukrainian: Template:T+
• Vietnamese: Template:T+, Template:T+

Verb

1. Template:Lb To distinguish or differentiate.
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Synonyms

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Translations

• Arabic: Template:T
• Bulgarian: Template:T+
• Cebuano: Template:T
• Dutch: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Finnish: Template:T+
• German: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+
• Hebrew: Template:T+
• Hindi: Template:T
• Ido: Template:T+
• Nepali: Template:T
• Persian: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+, Template:T
• Zazaki: Template:T

Further reading

• Template:R:Webster 1913
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Middle English

Alternative forms

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Etymology

From Template:Bor, from Template:Der; equivalent to Template:Af.

Pronunciation

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Noun

1. Difference; the state of being different.
2. A Template:L; an element which separates.
3. Distinguishment; the finding or creation of dissimilarity.
4. Template:Lb A heraldic cadency for a family's junior branch.
5. Template:Lb The result of subtraction; an amount left over.
6. Template:Lb An order in decimal representation of numbers.
7. Template:Lb Something that people do not agree upon.

Descendants

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References

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Old French

Alternative forms

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Etymology

From Template:Der.

Noun

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Descendants

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