difference — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. The quality of being different.

   Uso

   • non numerabile

   Contrari

   identitysameness

   Esempi

   You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.

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

   Uso

   • numerabile

   Esempi

   There are three differences between these two pictures.

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

3. A disagreement or argument.

   Uso

   • numerabile

   Esempi

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

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

   Altri esempi (1)

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

4. Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   It just won't make much difference to me.

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

   Altri esempi (2)

   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.

5. The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.

   Uso

   • numerabile

   Esempi

   The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.

6. Choice; preference.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • obsoleto
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

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

7. An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

8. The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

9. A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB).

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

10. The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B).

    Uso

    • numerabile
    • relational
    • non numerabile

Verbo

1. To distinguish or differentiate.

   Uso

   • obsoleto
   • transitivo

   Esempi

   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 […]

   Altri esempi (1)

   In the Calais Roll the arms of William de Warren […] are differenced by the addition of a canton said to be that of Fitzalan […]

2. to modify a heraldic emblem so as to distinguish one branch of a house from another

Sostantivo

1. the quality of being unlike or dissimilar

   Contrari

   sameness

   Termini più generali

   quality

   Esempi

   there are many differences between jazz and rock

2. a variation that deviates from the standard or norm

   Sinonimi

   deviationdivergencedeparture

   Termini più generali

   variationfluctuation

   Esempi

   the deviation from the mean

3. a disagreement or argument about something important

   Sinonimi

   disputedifference of opinionconflict

   Termini più generali

   disagreement

   Esempi

   he had a dispute with his wife

   there were irreconcilable differences

   Altri esempi (1)

   the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats

4. a significant change

   Termini più generali

   change

   Esempi

   the difference in her is amazing

   his support made a real difference

5. the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend

   Sinonimi

   remainder

   Termini più generali

   number