Word Finder - difference

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The quality of being different.

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You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.

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

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There are three differences between these two pictures.

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A disagreement or argument.

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

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Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.

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It just won't make much difference to me.

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

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The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.

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Choice; preference.

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

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

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(logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation (\scriptstyle A \overline B + \overline A B).

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(relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).

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To distinguish or differentiate.

He was so tall there was a vast difference in their height.

Is there any difference in the power?

But imagine the difference if the world had ten billion healthy, well-educated people!

What's the difference if I see him?

The only difference was the funding.

I notice the difference in the grocery bill just feeding Martha.

I'll be staying here then, so what difference does it make?

Maybe not, but it would have made a difference if I had known how you felt.

So what difference did it make who came up with the idea as long as it was a good one?

What difference does it make if we wait a few weeks?

No one can tell the physical difference until the injections wear off.

In spite of the time difference, she's a night owl.

It was too late to change her mind now - and what difference did it make why Alex was coming?

She seems to have some idea of the difference between original composition and reproduction.

Maybe no difference, but I'm setting the rules.

Six years isn't much difference, especially five years from now.

In the end the difference of opinion between Mr. Gilman and Miss Sullivan resulted in my mother's withdrawing my sister Mildred and me from the Cambridge school.

She perceived the difference in size at once.

Alex said it might not have made any difference, and reminded her that she needed to think positive.

A few weeks wouldn't mean the difference in paying for college, and she could use the time to relax.

Don't make no difference in a mine.

What difference did it make if they jumped the gun a little?

If she knows the difference between Schumann and Beethoven, it is because she has read it, and if she has read it, she remembers it and can tell any one who asks her.

It makes a difference, he said.

She sensed more than saw the largest difference within her.

The only difference was the electricity powering lights in the heavy iron and wood chandeliers overhead and the intercom system installed into the walls beside each entrance.

You have no idea how much of a difference that made to me and probably to the rest of your patients.

There'd have to be some sort of difference, wouldn't there?

It is commonly said that this is the difference between the affections and the intellect.

The difference, and sometimes complete contradiction, between men's opinions and their lives, and between one man and another, pleased him and drew from him an amused and gentle smile.

I probably wouldn't have known the difference, though.

This was one of the great days; though the sky had from my clearing only the same everlastingly great look that it wears daily, and I saw no difference in it.

Sonya, as she listened, thought of the immense difference there was between herself and her friend, and how impossible it was for her to be anything like as bewitching as her cousin.

He imagined all sorts of possible contingencies, just like the younger men, but with this difference, that he saw thousands of contingencies instead of two or three and based nothing on them.

What difference does it make?

It makes no difference how they feel.

Nothing she could say would make any difference anyway.

I think there is a bit of a difference.

Nothing of the sort, but there's a difference between con­senting adults and adultery.

What difference did it make whether she thought of him that way every waking minute, or only when her mind wasn't distracted by something else?

It won't make any difference to you whether they are adopted or biological - not in how much you love them or how you treat them.

The only difference was that she wanted Yancey to kiss her, not Howard.

It wouldn't make any difference.

The difference between her before her Monday night deal with Darkyn and now almost made him reconsider.

There's a difference between romance and sex.

Dean never ceased to marvel at the difference of high mountain snow from the heavy, wet precipitation of the East and the endless problems it caused with man and auto.

A buffalo here, a Longhorn there... what difference does it make?

Some people don't know the difference between being friendly and indicating personal interest.

Difference of opinion prevails as to the condition of the jack after it has been driven into the ditch.

The only difference to be reckoned with may be in recent tendencies of solo vocalists to sing for effect, and so to extend the compass of the voice upwards.