differ — Dictionnaire anglais

Verbe

1. Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.

   Usage

   • intransitif

   Exemples

   Plus d’exemples (1)

   When we look to the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes us, is, that they generally differ much more from each other, than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature.

   These shoes only differ from those ones in having slightly longer laces.

2. Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct. To be separated in quantity.

   Usage

   • intransitif

   Exemples

   The numbers 3 and 21 differ by 18.

3. Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct. To have diverging opinions, disagree.

   Usage

   • intransitif
   • usually

   Exemples

   May 11, 1827, George Canning, Changes in the Administration I differ from the honourable baronet on both these subjects

   Historical interpretation has differed over the role played by the king of Denmark and Norway in the impignoration of the islands.

Nom

1. A program that diffs, a diff.

   Synonymes

   diff

Verbe

1. be different

   Antonymes

   equal

   Termes génériques

   change

   Exemples

   These two tests differ in only one respect

2. be of different opinions

   Synonymes

   disagreedissenttake issue

   Termes génériques

   thinkcogitatecerebrate

   Exemples

   I beg to differ!

   She disagrees with her husband on many questions