difference

About 94.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The quality of being different.

   You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.

2. noun A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.

   There are three differences between these two pictures.

3. noun A disagreement or argument.

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

4. noun Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.

   It just won't make much difference to me.

5. noun The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.

   The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.

6. noun Choice; preference.
7. noun An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
8. noun The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

Similar words

divergence difference of opinion deviation dispute conflict departure otherness differential different differentiation

Often followed by

between in of is to was that and from

Word family

differenced differences differencing tell the difference telling the difference tells the difference told the difference