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Difference

noun

The quality of being unlike or dissimilar. Antonym: sameness.

A variation that deviates from the standard or norm. Synonyms: departure, deviation, divergence.

A disagreement or argument about something important. Synonyms: conflict, difference of opinion, dispute. "There were irreconcilable differences" , "The familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"

A significant change. "His support made a real difference"

The number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend. Synonym: remainder.

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"Difference" Quotes from Famous Books

... and as it was often a friend's hand that had struck them, there was no word of complaint nor of quarreling. The hemp-dresser, half flattened out, kept rubbing the small of his back and saying that, although it made small difference to him, he protested against the ruse of his friend, the grave-digger, and that if he had not been half dead, the hearth had never been captured so easily. The women swept the floor and order was restored. The table was covered with jugs ...

— The Devil's Pool • George Sand

... she was in danger of going overboard. After Belle unhooked the hem of her sister's skirt from an iron bolt, thereby giving Bess a sudden drop to the deck of the Chelton, however, Bess declared she knew water when she saw it, and also the difference between a water ...

— The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay - The Secret of the Red Oar • Margaret Penrose

... spring, when I paused an instant from work, Morning and evening, was this the voice I heard? Now in my exile the oriole sings again In the dreary stillness of Hsuun-yang town ... The bird's note cannot really have changed; All the difference lies in the listener's heart. If he could but forget that he lives at the World's end, The bird would sing as it sang ...

— More Translations from the Chinese • Various

... and paled; her heart beat fast with hope and wonder. She well knew what difference to her future would be made by the restoration to the house of Trevlyn of that lost treasure. She could scarce frame the words she longed to speak, but her eyes asked the question for her; and Petronella, putting her lips ...

— The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn - A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot • Evelyn Everett-Green

... the one thing he would not be able to bear, as she probably knew, and it brought him round at once. "Oh yes, we will," he said quickly. "Your being engaged can make no difference to me whatever. I have a perfect right to see you when I want ...

— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy

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