difference
/ˈdɪf.(ə.)ɹəns/ noun A1- The quality of being different. · You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.
- A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else. · There are three differences between these two pictures.
- A disagreement or argument. · We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.
- Significant change in or effect on a situation or state. · It just won't make much difference to me.· It just won't make much of a difference to anyone.
- The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result. · The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
- An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
- The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
- A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB).
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But it doesn’t make much real difference for it isn’t likely I’ll ever be either.
“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.
My companion was in the best of spirits, and prattled away about Cremona fiddles, and the difference between a Stradivarius and an Amati.
If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”
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