What is "discrepancy"

Usage examples of "discrepancy".

On a sheet of paper, The Shadow compiled the following list, arranged in four columns with accompanying notations: LIST OF LIST OF PERSONS OTHERS CRIMES RHYMES INVOLVED PRESENT Bond None Quade None Robbery Found An Unknown Jewel None Quade Diane Shop Found An Unknown Hapwood King Two None Robbery Cole Masked Men Brandom Contrary Cardiff Diane, Robbery Mary Masked Man Thorne Cardiff Black Cardiff Diane, Stocks Sheep Masked Man Thorne After giving this list a careful scrutiny, The Shadow checked its discrepancies, or limitations.

Marsh, claiming that there were discrepancies in Copes reports and suggesting that he had backdated a number of reports to claim priority for his work, mounted a campaign to determine precisely the dates of Copes reports, when those reports were made public, and when and in what form they were published.

Armenia Parva will be choked with snow until the middle of Sextilisoh, how I hate the discrepancy between the calendar and the seasons!

In the Paddock half an hour before the Rutlandshire Handicap was to be run numbers of racing-men were gathered in little knots of two and three, describing to each other with every precaution the points of strength in the horses they had laid against, the points of weakness in the horses they had backed, or vice versa, together with the latest discrepancies of their trainers and jockeys.

Most societies introduced extra months at certain times to overcome the discrepancy between the lunar and the solar year, but though such procedures often redressed the situation on a temporary basis, other intercalations, as they are called, were eventually needed.

He is as beautiful as ever, but the bigger he gets, the more noticeable the discrepancy between his physical age and his mental age.

According to his account there were but eight Boers present, but assertion or contradiction equally valueless in the darkness of such a night, and there are some obvious discrepancies in his statement.

Where there is a discrepancy between the two constitutions, the government has no support in the state, in the organic people, or nation, and can sustain itself only by corruption or physical force.

Buying and selling, creaming profits, hiding discrepancies, keeping secrets, burying connections, bending the rules, cementing relationships, fixing deals, fiddling the books, prioritising, publicising, damning, demonising, and doing pretty much what all government ministers did, only more so.

I was on call all the time, and often had to visit the fabs, in real or virtual space, to help sort out some discrepancy between the plan and the practicalities of construction.

But would anyone be blatant enough to alter or corrupt receipts so that someone looking at them could see a discrepancy?

Oh, she could picture that scene-the Hills and nee Hills lagging far behind an exasperated Tour Guide in the sun-fried Old Town, yes, all of the Hills standing about Jerusalem in their fashions-Uncle Alden mildly contemplating a sad ruin, Aunt Becky frowning back and forth between her Baedeker page and the discrepancies between those things described and those things not seen.

Abbe Taruffi's account, mentions what he considers to be a slight discrepancy: that Taruffi refers to the danseuse, about whom the duel was fought, as La Casacci, while Casanova refers to her as La Catai.

They spent the remainder of the trip discussing the discrepancies between "Ned Kramer's and Trebeck's rec-ollectious of the night Allison was murdered, as well as speculating on what the intruder had been looking for.

Sinnall decided that regulation issue would be too skimpy for Harlan's frame in any event and the discrepancies would pass as back-country inefficiencies.