difference
/ˈdɪf.(ə.)ɹəns/ verb C2- to modify a heraldic emblem so as to distinguish one branch of a house from another
He/she/it differences · Past differenced · Past participle differenced · -ing form differencing
Verb forms
- Base form
- difference
- He/she/it
- differences
- Past
- differenced
- Past participle
- differenced
- -ing form
- differencing
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Perhaps you think it doesn’t make any difference to me when you’re not going to keep me, but it does.
“That may make me feel badly tomorrow, Josie,” laughed Anne, “but just now I honestly feel that as long as I know the violets are coming out all purple down in the hollow below Green Gables and that little ferns are poking their heads up in Lovers’ Lane, it’s not a great deal of difference whether I win the Avery or not.
“What difference does it make how it’s spelled?” asked Marilla with another rusty smile as she picked up the teapot.
“Oh, it makes _such_ a difference.
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