English English Dictionary

difference in English:

1. answer when subtracting

2. differ

Tastes differ.

Usually the id and name attributes have the same value applied. (N.B. Not because it matters if they differ but just as a matter of convenience.)

This is where human beings and animals greatly differ.

The sexes differ, not only in stature and muscular force, but perhaps even more decisively in temperament, and this must early have given rise to a corresponding division of labour.

One finding to emerge was that critical features differ between species.

Such employments as warfare, politics, public worship, and public merrymaking, are felt, in the popular apprehension, to differ intrinsically from the labour that has to do with elaborating the material means of life.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

we have different beliefs

His views differ considerably from those of his parents. Economists differ on the cause of inflation.

to materially differ from sth - różnić się istotnie od czegoś; to differ from sb/sth - różnić się od kogoś/czegoś

mathematical factor had differ

International postal rates differ according to destination.

The Kansai dialects are said to have a "sing-song" quality because their pitch accents differ from standard Japanese, which comes from the Tokyo dialect.

Some people are apt to think of their own way of life as the normal one and to look down on life-styles that differ from it.

The Irish jig and the French gigue differ in speed, microrhythmics, and German gender.

English word "difference"(differ) occurs in sets:

Słowotwórstwo - angielski
Word formation nouns

3. different

You look different.

I consider the Jehovah's witnesses who knock on my door all the time to be no different from religious zealots trying to force their beliefs on me.

Mathematicians are like French people: whatever you tell them they translate it into their own language and turn it into something totally different.

Jo's very different from her sister, isn't she? The house is different to how I expected it to be. I had to go to three different shops to find the book she wanted.

It's difficult to give an objective definition of terrorism, as it is practically different in every country.

Our teacher also said that her wedding wouldn't be the same as other people's; we asked how it would be different, but she didn't say.

Here ... the sound of the cicadas is different. "Oh my, I'm impressed you noticed. You've got a good sense of pitch!"

Using English with him, I feel that we are both at different levels, at least from a linguistic point of view.

The methods used to overcome stress are different for men and women: drinking is the major method used by men, while women deal with stress by chatting.

That's not what I mean. Sex discrimination, female discrimination, whatever, men and women are just different.

I preferred wearing my Hawaiian T-shirt and green shorts to be cool and different, but I quickly got used to the white shirt and black slacks.

I'm teaching basic participial constructions now, but, with regard to those below, what different ways of translating them would everybody use?

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

These two have completely different patterning but no difference is seen in their internal morphology so it seems that they are considered the same.

English word "difference"(different) occurs in sets:

adjectives to nouns (general vocabulary; zamiana p...
abstract noun

4. between

Choose between these two.

Thursday Island is situated in the Torres Strait between Australia's northernmost Cape York and New Guinea.

As cultural exchange continued between the two countries, their mutual understanding became even deeper.

It is essential that some kind of compromise be reached between Pyongyang and Washington.

The discrepancy between the stories of the two parties involved in the accident was so great that the authorities had a hard time deciding which side was telling the truth.

In 1978 a peace treaty was concluded between Japan and China.

Diplomatic relations have not yet been established between Japan and North Korea.

In Japan, relations between neighbors are apt to be cooler than in USA.

Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much rancor between the Russians and the Germans, especially in areas once occupied by the Soviet Union.

Between 1820 and 1973, the United States admitted more than 46 million immigrants.

In general, communication between doctors and their patients is the most important part of medical treatment.

Between meals, he usually manages to stow away a generous supply of candy, ice cream, popcorn and fruit.

Suddenly, there was a period of terrible violence and hatred between blacks and whites.

It's over between us. Give me back my ring!

We're torn between going to a hot spring and going skiing.

English word "difference"(between) occurs in sets:

Adjectiv/ noun + preposition
prepositional phrases
Noun + Preposition

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