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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Difference \Dif"fer*ence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Differenced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Differencing .] To cause to differ; to make different; to mark as different; to distinguish. Thou mayest difference gods from men. --Chapman. Kings, in receiving justice and undergoing ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being unlike or dissimilar; "there are many differences between jazz and rock" [ant: sameness ] a variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: deviation , divergence , departure ] a disagreement ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Difference is a key concept of philosophy , denoting the process or set of properties by which one entity is distinguished from another within a relational field or a given conceptual system . In the Western philosophical system , difference is traditionally ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The quality of being different. 2 (context countable English) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else. vb. (context transitive English) To distinguish or differentiate.

Usage examples of difference.

Once in a while, though, there would be glimpses of the sun--which looked abnormally large--and of the moon, whose markings held a touch of difference from the normal that I could never quite fathom.

Paris the Pope, who was still at Fontainebleau, determined to accede to an arrangement, and to sign an act which the Emperor conceived would terminate the differences between them.

The only difference is the acknowledgment which a man ought to make, that he does good and thinks truth not of himself but from the Lord, and hence that the good he does and the truth he thinks are not his.

This difference in the results is interesting, for it shows that too strong an irritant does not induce any transmitted effect, and does not cause the adjoining, upper and growing part of the radicle to bend.

Court refused to take jurisdiction of a suit in equity brought by the United States to determine the navigability of the New and Kanawha Rivers on the ground that the jurisdiction in such suits is limited to cases and controversies and does not extend to the adjudication of mere differences of opinion between the officials of the two governments.

The only difference between the schools is in the remedies employed, the size of dose administered, and the results attained.

June, 1896, great stress was laid on the fact of the difference in the admixture of inks found on letters contemporaneous with the date of the will, and it was asserted also that the ink with which the will was written was not in existence at the time it was alleged to have been made, June 14, 1873, and probably not earlier than ten years later.

It was the difference between the manners of Tewksbury and Tuscumbia, between being brought up amid the cruelties of the almshouse and the affectionate warmth of an upper-middle-class Southern home, between an Irish cultural heritage of black pessimism and hot hatred of patronizing rulers and the genial, self-confident outlook of a class that despite the Civil War was still master.

Professor Romaine Newbold, who publishes this dream, explains that the professor had unconsciously reasoned out his facts, the difference of colour in the two pieces of agate disappearing in the dream.

The differences between the east and west sides of the south transept are as follow:-- The windows in the southern bay of the west aisle are blank.

The arcades of the aisles are practically the same in both aisles, except for the differences noted between the east and west aisle of the south transepts.

They made no difference between me and their own child, and Alette became to me the tenderest and best of sisters.

But as he stared at alpenglow from the dying sunset, he saw all the difference that mattered.

Anyway, a year ago, some Spiders were using abandoned mines in the altiplano south of Calorica, trying to find a difference between gravitational mass and inertial mass.

But, amigo, if you look at it carefully, examine it closely, you will see that there is a difference.