Synonyms of the word difference


DIFFERENCECHANGE - CONFLICT - DEPARTURE - DEVIATION - DISAGREEMENT - DISPUTE - DIVERGENCE - FLUCTUATION - NUMBER - QUALITY - REMAINDER - VARIATION

difference

  • n. (uncountable) The quality of being different.
  • n. (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
  • n. (countable) A disagreement or argument.
  • n. (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
  • n. (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
  • n. (obsolete) Choice; preference.
  • n. (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be…
  • n. (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
  • v. (transitive) To distinguish or differentiate.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

conflict

  • n. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
  • n. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
  • v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.
  • v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

departure

  • n. The act of departing or something that has departed.
  • n. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
  • n. (euphemistic) A death.
  • n. (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the…
  • n. (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading,…
  • n. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

deviation

  • n. The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule,…
  • n. The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
  • n. (contract law) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual…
  • n. (Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile…
  • n. (statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed…
  • n. (metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.

disagreement

  • n. An argument or debate.
  • n. A condition of not agreeing or concurring.

dispute

  • n. An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
  • n. Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial…
  • v. (intransitive) To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
  • v. (transitive) To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
  • v. To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question;…
  • v. To strive or contend about; to contest.
  • v. (obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.

divergence

  • n. The degree to which two or more things diverge.
  • n. (obsolete) disagreement; difference.
  • n. The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.

fluctuation

  • n. A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction.
  • n. A wavering; unsteadiness.
  • n. In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in…

number

  • n. (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
  • n. (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
  • n. (countable, mathematics) A member of one of several classes: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers,…
  • n. (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence…
  • n. Quantity.
  • n. A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
  • n. (countable, informal) A telephone number.
  • n. (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
  • n. (now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
  • n. (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
  • n. (countable, informal) A person.
  • n. (countable, informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one.
  • n. (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer.
  • n. (dated) An issue of a periodical publication.
  • v. (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
  • v. (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
  • adj. comparative form of numb: more numb.

quality

  • n. (uncountable) Level of excellence.
  • n. (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
  • n. (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.).
  • n. (uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed…
  • n. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total…
  • n. (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI…
  • adj. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

remainder

  • n. A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed.
  • n. (mathematics) The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend…
  • n. (mathematics) The number left over after a simple subtraction.
  • n. (commerce) Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.
  • n. (law) An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the…
  • adj. remaining.
  • v. (commerce) To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.

variation

  • n. The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
  • n. A related but distinct thing.
  • n. (nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north…
  • n. (board games) A line of play that differs from the original.
  • n. (music) A technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre,…
  • n. (genetics) The modification of a hereditary trait.

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