Meaning

10 senses
  1. (uncountable)The quality of being different.

    You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.

    Unterschied, Unterscheidung, Andersartigkeit

    разли́чиеrazlíčije, отли́чиеotlíčije, ра́зницаráznica

    різни́цяriznýcja

    the quality of being unlike or dissimilar

  2. (countable)A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.

    There are three differences between these two pictures.

    Unterschied, Differenz

    отличи́тельная черта́otličítelʹnaja čertá, разли́чиеrazlíčije

  3. (countable)A disagreement or argument.

    We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.

    Meinungsverschiedenheit, Differenz

    разногла́сиеraznoglásije

    a disagreement or argument about something important

  4. (countable, uncountable)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.

    a significant change

  5. (countable)The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.

    The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.

    Differenz

    ра́зностьráznostʹ, ра́зницаráznica

    рі́зницяríznycja

  6. (countable, uncountable)An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.

  7. (countable, uncountable)The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

  8. (countable, uncountable)A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB).

  9. (countable, relational, uncountable)The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B).

  10. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Choice; preference.

Examples

1478 sentences
  1. It makes no difference to me.

    Мені байдуже.

    deDas ist mir egal.

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  2. Why does that make a difference?

    Чому це має значення?

    deWarum ist das wichtig?

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  3. Tell me you understand the difference.

    Скажи мені, що ти розумієш різницю.

    ruСкажи мне, что понимаешь разницу.

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  4. What difference does that make now?

    Яка вже зараз різниця?

    ruКакая теперь разница?

    deWelchen Unterschied macht das jetzt?

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  5. Tom said he noticed a difference.

    Том сказав, що помітив різницю.

    ruТом сказал, что заметил отличие.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
quality of being different:
arithmetic: result of a subtraction:
Русский
By meaning 4
quality of being different:
characteristic of something that makes it different from something else:
disagreement or argument about something important:
arithmetic: result of a subtraction:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
quality of being different:
characteristic of something that makes it different from something else:
disagreement or argument about something important:

Origin

From Middle English difference, from Old French difference, from Latin differentia (“diffe

From Middle English difference, from Old French difference, from Latin differentia (“difference”), from differēns (“different”), present participle of differre. Doublet of differentia. Morphologically differ + -ence.

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Forms

plural: differences
Singulardifference
Pluraldifferences

regular

Synonyms

18 synonyms
characteristic of something that makes it different from something else:departureB1divergenceC1deviationdisparity
disagreement or argument about something important:conflictB1disputeB2dissensionC2difference of opinion
result of a subtraction:remainderB1
significant change in state:nevermind
Close in meaning

Antonyms

4 antonyms

Word family

33 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • the difference between
  • difference between
  • make a difference
  • make any difference
  • makes no difference
  • difference between a
  • any difference
  • notice the difference
  • know the difference
  • no difference to
  • tell the difference
  • no difference

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
difference — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto