verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be of differing/different views (=disagree)
▪ They get on well, though they are of differing views on politics.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ However, the cause of the problem in a particular patient will be different, and so actual care may also differ.
▪ Dash and Alexander were as opposite as individuals as their respective choice of pseudonyms suggests, and their respective skills differed also.
▪ Architecture also differs from language in its strict observation of its own rules and conventions, and in its sense of detail.
▪ It also differs from the more numerous Forster's in having a yellow bill and white forehead.
▪ Individuals also differ in their alcohol tolerance.
▪ Yet the festivals also differ in significant ways.
▪ Pollution control work also differs in important respects from routine police patrol work.
▪ Both species differ also in their achenes and bracts.
considerably
▪ The process of care differs considerably from recommended guidelines, and the outcome of attacks is a continuing cause for concern.
▪ However, their historical development as nations has differed considerably.
▪ The above examples of culturally defined behaviour have been selected because they differ considerably from behaviour patterns in Western society.
▪ Existing intermediate agencies differ considerably, responding to quite different circumstances.
▪ The drawing of Orpheus himself also differs considerably between the two.
▪ Clearly, communes differ considerably from one another.
fundamentally
▪ Coventry, moreover, differed fundamentally from the Stour Valley.
▪ In such cases the citizens often dream of reunification, even when their governments and ideology differ fundamentally.
▪ Clements was an influential writer who developed a philosophy of ecology that differed fundamentally from the reductionism of Warming and Cowles.
greatly
▪ These histories may be similar on very large scales, but they will differ greatly on normal, everyday scales.
▪ The rural hinterland which supported the two best known cities differed greatly.
▪ In either case, the actual functioning of official institutions may differ greatly from their declared purposes.
▪ The result is that families differ greatly in their ability to express their wants in the market.
▪ Pluvinel regarded all horses as individuals, and recognised that their temperaments can differ greatly.
▪ Not only does all mankind face death, but the various peoples of the world face death in greatly differing ways.
▪ Taking a less detailed view, the patterns of discovery do not differ greatly.
▪ But the levels reported on the official water quality chart differ greatly from the results contained in the unofficial water quality analyses.
in
▪ Colugos differ in so many ways from other mammals that they thoroughly merit an order of their own.
▪ The Johnson case differs in that the Olympics are being held in the United States.
▪ Systems differ in their ability to deal with more sophisticated data such as that from precision farming.
▪ He was looking at a peaceful family group, differing in only one respect from the scenes he knew.
▪ They differ in almost half the letters in the signature site.
▪ Benzodiazepines differ in how quickly they affect sleep and how long effects last.
▪ The buff application form differed in only one important way from the half-dozen Vologsky had sent in the past.
little
▪ Hymn lists differ little from year to year and music programmes remain unadventurous.
▪ In most practical aspects heritable copyhold differed little from socage.
▪ His rooms differed little, one from another.
markedly
▪ At the time of its publication this collection of essays provoked markedly differing critical responses.
▪ But the current outing flurry differs markedly from the initial wave in 1991.
▪ There is sufficient evidence to indicate that students may differ markedly in the ways they set about learning.
▪ The Web has become an umbrella for a wide range of concepts and technologies that differ markedly in purpose and scope.
▪ In the Emmental region the loca customary laws of inheritance differed markedly from most of their neighbours.
▪ After all, they reasoned, execution by the guillotine or sword differed markedly from that dealt by the axe.
▪ In its provisions dealing with the Chancellor, the Basic Law differs markedly and consciously from its Weimar predecessor.
▪ In these respects they differ markedly from the other two parties and have a much stronger and more developed concept of citizenship.
only
▪ They differ only in the degree to which they exploit viewers' voyeuristic and sadistic urges.
▪ These assays differ only in the specific reagents used.
▪ We have already seen that two sentences differing only in respect of cognitive synonyms occupying parallel syntactic positions are in general logically equivalent.
▪ They differ only in the position of one of the methyl groups.
▪ This loco will be almost fully authentic, only differing where it is necessary to conform to modern safety practices.
▪ Non-Being and Being, issuing from a single source, differ only in their name.
▪ Both have the same content; they differ only in form.
▪ Left and right both tend to accept the existing political structure and differ only on the substance of policy and political personnel.
radically
▪ Our view of the future of elite workers differs radically from the conventional view.
▪ This differs radically from the popular image of penetrating falsehood by perception of the liar.
▪ Its content may however differ radically depending on the way in which the precise subject matter is viewed by those political theories.
▪ For most couples, circumstances will differ radically from the early days of marriage.
sharply
▪ Difficulties created by local authority boundaries, especially where policies differ sharply and where these divide built up areas are well described.
▪ But despite this similarity, local government differs sharply among the five nations.
▪ It ought to be self-evident, but perhaps is not, that schools differ sharply from each other, as do colleges.
▪ In outlook and temperament the brothers differed sharply.
▪ Veterinary historians still differ sharply about the effect his long spell in charge of the College had on the emerging profession.
significantly
▪ The article challenges the statement by the Cumbrian Area Health Authority that local leukaemia rates do not significantly differ from national rates.
▪ The individual mare basins differ significantly in composition.
▪ When this indicated a probability of less than 0.05 for the null hypothesis Student-Newman-Keuls analyses were performed to determine which values differed significantly.
▪ They reported that quality-wise, the convenience foods did not differ significantly from the home-prepared items.
▪ Although the hit rate does not differ significantly between junctions there do seem to be substantial differences between individual films.
▪ It did not differ significantly between groups.
▪ The lunar ratios differ significantly from those in achondritic meteorites.
▪ The fraction of cells in S phase did not differ significantly between the groups.
slightly
▪ Direct files require extensive design work, because every file and every algorithm will differ slightly from every other.
▪ In addition, the model formulation and parameter values used differ slightly between the two analyses.
▪ Payment of fees and grants Fees set by each drama school do differ slightly, though they can be considered basically similar.
▪ All were circular and closely similar in plan, although differing slightly in dimensions and details.
▪ Holidays Holiday entitlement differs slightly according to job level, age and length of service.
substantially
▪ In Ponthieu the seneschal's functions did not differ substantially from those or the seneschal of Gascony.
▪ But just about every skill in making and selling computers substantially differed from making and leasing copiers.
▪ The parallel structure differs substantially from the fold-back structure at the individual nucleotide level.
▪ Long stays on the lunar surface demand prolonged exposure to an environment differing substantially from that at the surface of Earth.
▪ The council does not have to consider a new application within two years, unless it differs substantially from the original.
▪ And the percentage who report membership differs substantially from country to country.
▪ In an introduction to the report Mr Prescott says that the need for improvement will differ substantially across the country.
▪ That process differs substantially from how the City of Tucson usually leases property.
widely
▪ Where dates differ widely from the results announcements, this is referred to in the footnotes as an alternative dividend announcement.
▪ Margarines are available at widely differing costs, with the most expensive ones being twice as costly as the least expensive ones.
▪ Dictionaries differ widely in their style and content, and this has been shown to affect recognition performance.
▪ Thus launch windows to Mars differ widely in their attractiveness.
▪ Individuals can differ widely in their scores and this makes direct comparisons between them difficult.
▪ This is the case of choosing from among mutually exclusive projects with widely differing costs.
▪ These statutes differ widely as to their aims and methods.
▪ Scholars differ widely, and will no doubt continue to do so.
■ NOUN
approach
▪ Apart from differing needs of users, indexing approaches may differ on policy grounds.
▪ But the elite and class approach differ in their conceptions of the nature of the groups and their interactions.
▪ The approach to these projects differs from the earlier generation of higher cost ventures.
country
▪ In what ways did the countries differ?
▪ Yet the social élites of different countries could differ dramatically from one another.
▪ The shock and adjustment curve followed the same pattern in all countries but the timescale differed.
degree
▪ They differ only in the degree to which they exploit viewers' voyeuristic and sadistic urges.
▪ It would differ very greatly in degree from the simple algorithm of the thermostat, but need not differ in principle.
▪ Althusser's analysis implies that the Soviet Union and capitalist societies do not differ in degrees of democracy or political freedom.
detail
▪ The episode is described by all the chroniclers and although their accounts differ in detail, the outlines are clear.
▪ The liability of the agent may be the same in both cases, but the reasons for it differ in detail.
▪ But the two structures differ completely in detail.
▪ But the economists differ on the details.
extent
▪ Countries differ however in the extent to which they wish to impose limitations.
▪ Opinions differ on the extent of his success.
▪ The particular techniques differ mainly in the extent to which they measure and value in improvements in health.
form
▪ If terms that differ in form must differ in meaning, then one should find no true synonyms.
▪ This is a very peculiar but decorative plant which in submersed form differs conspicuously from the other members of the family.
▪ The buff application form differed in only one important way from the half-dozen Vologsky had sent in the past.
group
▪ The actual results of the Group may differ materially from those illustrated.
▪ These chondrites belong to three major groups that differ in their composition.
▪ Group norms Work groups differ from free-forming groups outside employment in that they evolve over long periods of time.
▪ He was looking at a peaceful family group, differing in only one respect from the scenes he knew.
▪ In this respect groups did not differ statistically but the adjustment is standard practice and allows a fairer comparison.
▪ Conflicts of interest among philanthropic groups originating in differing social or religious theories frustrated constructive action in certain fields.
language
▪ These serve pretty well everywhere, though languages differ in the ones they favor.
method
▪ Variation from authority averages by the two methods differed not only in size but in direction.
▪ The methods of consultants differ from company to company and from station to station.
opinion
▪ In a few instances as might be expected, opinions differ on certain aspects.
▪ Spiced a rid Flavored Cheeses Opinion differs on the merits of flavoring and spicing cheeses.
▪ There may be a complicated chain of cause and effect on which opinions will differ.
rate
▪ It is for these reasons that wage rates differ from one job to the next.
▪ The rate of planetary turnings differed, and he did not know that of Trantor.
▪ The article challenges the statement by the Cumbrian Area Health Authority that local leukaemia rates do not significantly differ from national rates.
▪ Although the hit rate does not differ significantly between junctions there do seem to be substantial differences between individual films.
▪ The unemployment rates did not differ significantly in these darker areas, being high for both groups.
▪ Reinfarction rates did not differ significantly between aspirin alone and aspirin plus subcutaneous heparin groups.
▪ Age specific death rates do not differ much between the non-manual social classes.
▪ The success rates for two tasks differing only in the lengths of the rod shown is again marked.
respect
▪ We have already seen that two sentences differing only in respect of cognitive synonyms occupying parallel syntactic positions are in general logically equivalent.
▪ Individuals differ with respect to the contribution of each of these variables in their development.
▪ Pollution control work also differs in important respects from routine police patrol work.
▪ Yet Cantor differed in several respects from the superstars in universities that counted Nobel laureates by the dozen.
▪ If the people and positions which make up society did not differ in important respects there would be no need for stratification.
▪ The first is that there are no systematic entailments between sentences differing only in respect of compatibles in parallel syntactic positions.
▪ He was looking at a peaceful family group, differing in only one respect from the scenes he knew.
result
▪ These results did not differ when acid output was expressed as mmol/h/kg lean body mass or mmol/h/kg fat free body weight.
▪ The result is that families differ greatly in their ability to express their wants in the market.
▪ As a result differing terms are used to describe similar products.
▪ The authors point out that their study was done in a rural area and results may differ with urban clients.
▪ Data from patients adhering fully to the protocol were also analysed, and where results differ, these are also presented.
▪ How did their results differ when they listened with one ear and with two?
▪ The results appear to differ among species.
▪ Did their one-ear results differ depending on the direction of the clap?
size
▪ The areas will differ in size.
▪ Shrimp from around the world differ in color, size, and shape.
▪ Variation from authority averages by the two methods differed not only in size but in direction.
▪ Nematode eggs differ greatly in size and shape, and the shell is of variable thickness usually consisting of three layers.
▪ Their percentages, however, differ with the size of the university.
▪ Sometimes, in a store where more than one manufacturer is stocked, dresses for the same ages differ in size.
▪ The template can be anything from a simple list of stories to a traditional newspaper layout with headlines of differing sizes.
species
▪ Different species differed in number and size of teeth and proportions of the jaws.
▪ Both species differ also in their achenes and bracts.
▪ Different fish species differ markedly in their ability to deal with different water types.
▪ The achenes of Sagittaria species differ from those of Echinodorus species by not being ribbed.
▪ In the genus Echinodorus there are distinct groups of self-fertile and self-sterile species differing in the leaf petioles.
view
▪ Their reasons for adopting this view differed somewhat, but we can take Galileo's position as not atypical.
ways
▪ In what ways did the countries differ?
▪ So in what ways do they differ?
▪ If a present-day Darwin were to agonize over his matrimonial fate in what ways might it differ from the example above?
▪ The needs of local populations, their service objectives and the most effective ways of achieving them differ between areas.
▪ But in other ways they differ very strongly.
▪ They are both 11 13, but in almost all other ways they differ.
■ VERB
agree
▪ They were tolerably happy together, as marriages seem to go, a happiness achieved partly by agreeing to differ.
▪ We might as well agree to differ and get along as well as we can.
▪ If after discussion we agree to differ, both versions will be recorded.
beg
▪ Peretti begged to differ, citing Webster's dictionary.
▪ Ken Howard might beg to differ.
▪ Well having discussed this matter with many typical users of word processors, I beg to differ.
▪ Predictably, Boston begs to differ.
▪ The publishing industry may beg to differ.
▪ The solar calendar begs to differ.
▪ Many baseball fans in Cleveland beg to differ.
▪ Many would beg to differ with his terminology.
seem
▪ More-over, the effects of imitation on performance seem to differ with respect to phonological abilities and grammatical abilities.
▪ As in the case of the concord system, constraints seem to differ between one non-standard grammar and another.
▪ Many of these areas also suffer from extremely serious soil erosion, although reports and impressions seem to differ.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I beg to differ
▪ Selling some of course. I beg to differ.
▪ Well having discussed this matter with many typical users of word processors, I beg to differ.
agree to differ/disagree
▪ An official day to, as a society, agree to disagree and celebrate our freedom to do so.
▪ If after discussion we agree to differ, both versions will be recorded.
▪ If you can't agree to disagree, then take a back seat and let others have their way on this occasion.
▪ They seemed to respect each other, and simply agreed to disagree.
▪ They were tolerably happy together, as marriages seem to go, a happiness achieved partly by agreeing to differ.
▪ We might as well agree to differ and get along as well as we can.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A lot of painkillers are basically the same, differing only in cost.
▪ All politicians agree that inflation must be beaten but they differ over methods of achieving this.
▪ Critics differed about the importance of Osborne's new play.
▪ Opinions on the subject differ greatly.
▪ People's abilities differ, but their rights and opportunities should be the same.
▪ Scholars differ widely about when the two manuscripts were written.
▪ Scottish law has always differed from English law.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ However, states differ in standards for products and the labelling thereof.
▪ Ken Howard might beg to differ.
▪ Opinions currently differ as to the effectiveness of strategies in the professional development of teachers during the last twenty years.
▪ Rather smaller and darker than Swift and Pallid Swift, differing especially in its dark throat and faster flight.
▪ The methods of consultants differ from company to company and from station to station.
▪ The results, on virtually every test, differed markedly from a control group of healthy adults.
▪ The specific symptom by which our body chooses to signal stress will differ from one individual to the next.
▪ Thus, insight into those differing views is important to your own choices.