differ
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɪfə/Category:English 2-syllable words#DIFFERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#DIFFER
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɪfɚ/Category:English 2-syllable words#DIFFERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#DIFFER
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#DIFFERAudio (General American): (file) - Hyphenation: dif‧fer
- Rhymes: -ɪfə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɪfə(ɹ)#DIFFERCategory:Rhymes:English/ɪfə(ɹ)/2 syllables#DIFFER
Etymology 1
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#DIFFERCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer-#DIFFERFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#DIFFERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#DIFFER differren, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#DIFFER differer, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#DIFFER differō (“carry apart, put off, defer; differ”), from dis- (“apart”) + ferō (“carry, bear”). Compare Ancient Greek διαφέρω (diaphérō). Doublet of deferCategory:English links with manual fragments#DIFFER and dilateCategory:English links with manual fragments#DIFFERCategory:English doublets#DIFFER, see also infer, confer and collate, refer and relate, as well as prefer and prelate among others.
Verb
differ (third-person singular simple present differs, present participle differing, simple past and past participle differed)Category:English lemmas#DIFFERCategory:English verbs#DIFFERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DIFFERCategory:Pages with entries#DIFFERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#DIFFER
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#DIFFER) Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:differ
- 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#DIFFER
- These shoes only differ from those ones in having slightly longer laces.Category:English terms with usage examples#DIFFER
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#DIFFER) To be separated in quantity.
- The numbers 3 and 21 differ by 18.Category:English terms with usage examples#DIFFER
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#DIFFER, people, groups, etc.) To have diverging opinions, disagree.
- May 11, 1827, George Canning, Changes in the Administration
- I differ from the honourable baronet on both these subjects
- 1969, “The Pawning of Orkney and Shetland: A Reconsideration of the Events of 1460-9”, in The Scottish Historical Review, volume 48, number 145, Edinburgh University Press, →OCLC, page 35:
- Historical interpretation has differed over the role played by the king of Denmark and Norway in the impignoration of the islands.Category:English terms with quotations#DIFFER
- May 11, 1827, George Canning, Changes in the Administration
Antonyms
- (to be unalike): match
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From diff + -erCategory:English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)#DIFFER.
Noun
differ (plural differs)Category:English lemmas#DIFFERCategory:English nouns#DIFFERCategory:English countable nouns#DIFFERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DIFFERCategory:Pages with entries#DIFFERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#DIFFER
- (computingCategory:en:Computing#DIFFER) A program that diffs, a diff.
- Synonym: diff
Further reading
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “differ”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “differ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
differCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#DIFFERCategory:Latin verb forms#DIFFERCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#DIFFERCategory:Pages with entries#DIFFERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#DIFFER