difference

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being different. uncountable
    — You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.
  2. A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else. countable
    — There are three differences between these two pictures.
  3. A disagreement or argument. countable
    — We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.
  4. Significant change in or effect on a situation or state. countable,uncountable
    — It just won't make much difference to me.
  5. The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result. countable
    — The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
  6. Choice; preference. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — That now be chooseth with vile difference To be a beast, and lack intelligence.
  7. An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency. countable,uncountable
  8. The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia. countable,uncountable
  9. A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB). countable,uncountable
  10. The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B). countable,relational,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To distinguish or differentiate. obsolete,transitive
    — This simple spectation of the lungs is differenced from that which concomitates a pleurisy.
  2. to modify a heraldic emblem so as to distinguish one branch of a house from another

词形变化

differences plural differences present,singular,third-person differencing participle,present differenced participle,past differenced past

词汇关系

近义词
difference differentiation differentness distinction distinguishedness nonidentity unidenticality diversity
反义词
identity identicality identicalness sameness
下位词
antithesis dissimilarity variety
衍生词
age difference antidifference as near as makes no difference common difference creative differences deflection difference diff difference engine difference equation difference gate difference-maker difference maker difference-making difference of opinion difference of two squares difference quotient difference set distinction without a difference electric potential difference equidifference finite difference goal difference know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground know the difference between one's ass and one's elbow learning difference make a difference make all the difference make the difference mass difference nondifference photodifference point of difference potential difference same difference set difference set-theoretic difference size difference split the difference spot the difference symmetric difference tell the difference time difference undifferenced vive la difference what's the difference world of difference
相关词
successor × = × ×... = log(base) = differ different differential differentiate differentiation
并列词
equivalence fungibility interchangeability commensurateness similarity resemblance

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Italic *ferō
Latin ferō
Latin differō
Latin differēns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin differentiader.
Old French differencebor.
Middle English difference
English difference
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.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Italic *ferō
Latin ferō
Latin differō
Latin differēns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin differentiader.
Old French differencebor.
Middle English difference
English difference
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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