differ

UK /ˈdɪfə/ US /ˈdɪfɚ/
verb 3noun 1

Definitions

verb

1

Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.

When we look to the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes us, is, that they generally differ much more from each other, than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature.

These shoes only differ from those ones in having slightly longer laces.

2

Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.

The numbers 3 and 21 differ by 18.

3

Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.

May 11, 1827, George Canning, Changes in the Administration I differ from the honourable baronet on both these subjects

Historical interpretation has differed over the role played by the king of Denmark and Norway in the impignoration of the islands.

noun

1

A program that diffs, a diff.

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