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Differentiated   /dˌɪfərˈɛnʃiˌeɪtɪd/  /dˌɪfərˈɛntʃiˌeɪtəd/   Listen
Differentiated

adjective
1.
Made different (especially in the course of development) or shown to be different.  "The regionally differentiated results"  Antonym: undifferentiated.
2.
Exhibiting biological specialization; adapted during development to a specific function or environment.



Differentiate

verb
1.
Mark as different.  Synonyms: distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart.
2.
Be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense.  Synonyms: distinguish, mark.
3.
Calculate a derivative; take the derivative.  Antonym: integrate.
4.
Become different during development.  Antonym: dedifferentiate.
5.
Evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment.  Synonyms: specialise, specialize, speciate.
6.
Become distinct and acquire a different character.






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"Differentiated" Quotes from Famous Books



... the warrior class arose and grew strong in numbers and power, becoming differentiated from the agriculturists, and forming the military caste. The husbandmen drifted into another caste, and the three orders were rigidly separated by a cessation ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various

... than on the accidental, will the old ideal fade away and the new ideal take its place. Among an idealizing and emotional people, such as the Japanese, various ideals will naturally find extreme expression. As society grows complex also and its various elements become increasingly differentiated, so will the ideals pass through the same transformations. A study of ideals, therefore, serves several ends; it reveals the present character of those whose ideals they are; it shows the degree of development of the social organism in which they live; it makes known, likewise, ...
— Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick

... hazy in another. But the meanings and relationships of both "Walther" and "Mannheim" were beyond him. What difference, for instance, was there between a "Walther" and a "William"? Did a "Mannheim" outrank a "Mandeville", or the other way around? What functions differentiated a "John Smith" from a "Peter Taylor"? He knew what a "john" was and what a "smith" was, but "John Smith" was not, apparently, necessarily associated with sanitary plumbing. The meaning of some other names ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... semal tree (Bombax Malabaricum). They were thus Kewats or boatmen who adopted the practice of carrying small articles up and down the river for sale in their canoes, and then beginning to travel on land as well as on water, became regular pedlars, and were differentiated into a separate caste. The caste originated in Orissa where river travelling has until lately been much in vogue, and in Sambalpur they are also known as Uriyas, because of their recent immigration into ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India--Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell

... villanelles, as technical sports and pastimes. Real art, whether ideal or realistic, addresses precisely the same feeling, and seeks the same qualities - significance or charm. And the same - very same - inspiration is only methodically differentiated according as the artist is an arrant realist or an arrant idealist. Each, by his own method, seeks to save and perpetuate the same significance or charm; the one by suppressing, the other by forcing, detail. All other idealism is ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson


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