Difference vs Other - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The quality of being different.
(countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
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(countable) A disagreement or argument.
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(countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
* 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
(countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
(obsolete) Choice; preference.
* Spenser
(heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
(logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
(logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation ().
(relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another ().
To distinguish or differentiate.
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Alien.
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Different.
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(obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
* Spenser
An other one, more often rendered as another .
The other one; the second of two.
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, title= Not the one or ones previously referred to.
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, title= Apart from; in the phrase "other than".
(obsolete) otherwise
To make into an other.
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To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
* 2007 , Christopher Emdin, City University of New York. Urban Education, Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms :
(ethnicity, or, race) To label as "other".
* 2008 , John F. Borland, University of Connecticut, The under-representation of Black females :
(label) Or.
*, Book VII:
*:And if that I had nat had my prevy thoughtis to returne to youre love agayne as I do, I had sene as grete mysteryes as ever saw my sonne Sir Galahad other' Percivale, ' other Sir Bors.
As nouns the difference between difference and other
is that difference is difference while other is an other one, more often rendered as another .As an adjective other is
see.As a determiner other is
not the one or ones previously referred to.As an adverb other is
apart from; in the phrase "other than".As a verb other is
to make into an other.As a conjunction other is
(label) or.difference
English
Noun
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- We have our little differences , but we are firm friends.
- What was the difference ? It was a contention in public.
- Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could.
- The line of the horizon was clear and hard against the sky, and in one particular quarter it showed black against a silvery climbing phosphorescence that grew and grew. At last, over the rim of the waiting earth the moon lifted with slow majesty till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off, free of moorings; and once more they began to see surfaces—meadows wide-spread, and quiet gardens, and the river itself from bank to bank, all softly disclosed, all washed clean of mystery and terror, all radiant again as by day, but with a difference that was tremendous.
- That now be chooseth with vile difference / To be a beast, and lack intelligence.
Synonyms
* (characteristic of something that makes it different from something else) departure, deviation, divergence * (disagreement or argument about something important) conflict, difference of opinion, dispute, dissension * (result of a subtraction) remainder * (significant change in state) nevermindAntonyms
* (quality of being different) identity, samenessDerived terms
* distinction without a difference * creative differences * difference engine * difference equation * difference gate * difference of two squares * goal difference * same difference * split the difference * spot the difference * tell the differenceSee also
* addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividendVerb
(differenc)- (en)
Synonyms
* (to distinguish or differentiate) differentiate, distinguishExternal links
* * ----other
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- I get paid every other week.
- A distaff in her other hand she had.
Synonyms
* (not the one previously referred to) * (contrary to) * different, disparate * dissimilar, distinctive * distinguishable, diverse * unalike, unlike * additional, another * else, farther * furtherAntonyms
* sameDerived terms
* otherish * other rank * other sideNoun
(en noun)Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other' suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the ' other polishes it.
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Determiner
(en determiner)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Antonyms
* sameDerived terms
*Adverb
(-)- Other than that, I'm fine.
- It shall none other be. — Chaucer.
- If you think other . — Shakespeare.
Verb
(en verb)- In this scenario, the young lady who had spoken had been othered by her peers and her response to my question had been dismissed as invalid despite the fact that she was alright.
- [...] and Black males have not taken her seriously politically (gender); and the color of her skin has marginalized her (race and "othered " her when compared with White women, who have also worked to silence her political views.