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Difference   /dˈɪfərəns/  /dˈɪfrəns/   Listen
Difference

noun
1.
The quality of being unlike or dissimilar.  Antonym: sameness.
2.
A variation that deviates from the standard or norm.  Synonyms: departure, deviation, divergence.
3.
A disagreement or argument about something important.  Synonyms: conflict, difference of opinion, dispute.  "There were irreconcilable differences" , "The familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"
4.
A significant change.  "His support made a real difference"
5.
The number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend.  Synonym: remainder.



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"Difference" Quotes from Famous Books



... example. El Greco, almost the caricature in his art of the Don Quixote type of mind, who, though a Greek by birth and a Venetian by training, became more Spanish than the Spaniards during his long life at Toledo, strove constantly to express the difference between the world of flesh and the world of spirit, between the body and the soul of man. More recently, the extreme characterization of Goya's sketches and portraits, the intensifying of national types found in Zuloaga and the other ...
— Rosinante to the Road Again • John Dos Passos
... words aural and oral are distinguished in the pronunciation of the North Midlands and in Scotland, and the difference between the first syllables is shown in the Oxford dictionary. In Southern English no ...
— Society for Pure English, Tract 2, on English Homophones • Robert Bridges
... the world's difference between them!" cried Rudolf Rassendyll. He sat down on the bed by me, and went on in quick, decisive words: "You can't move for a day or two. Send my message to Sapt. Tell him to keep you informed of what happens. As soon as you can travel, go to Strelsau, and let Sapt know ...
— Rupert of Hentzau - From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim: The Sequel to - The Prisoner of Zenda • Anthony Hope
... thousand of your troops in the mutiny already, according to your tally," said Kettle stiffly, "and I don't see that if this hundred joined them it would make much difference to us, one way or the other. Besides," he added, almost persuasively, "if I had the handling of them they would not join the others. They would stay here and ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne
... thought that her love for Lawrence need not alter things. She would tell Nicholas, of course, and then she would act as he wished. If she were not to see Lawrence she would not see him—that would make no difference to her love for him. What she did not realise—and that was strange after living with him for so long—was that he was always hoping that her tender kindliness towards him would, one day, change into something more passionate. ...
— The Secret City • Hugh Walpole


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