More definitions of "difference":
- (noun): The quality of being unlike or dissimilar.
Example: "There are many differences between jazz and rock"
- (noun): A disagreement or argument about something important.
Synonyms: dispute, difference of opinion, conflict
- (noun): A significant change.
Example: "The difference in her is amazing"; "his support made a real difference"
- (noun): The number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend.
Famous quotes containing the word difference:
“The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer the topic of this country. Its important questions are settled... Great minds hereafter are to be employed on other matters.... Government no longer has its ancient importance.... The peoples progress, progress of every sort, no longer depends on government. But enough of politics. Henceforth I am out more than ever.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“The difference between a photograph and even the most realistic paintingsay, one of Courbets landscapesis that in the latter there has been selection, emphasis and some discreet distortion. The painters deep instinctive feeling for mass and force has rearranged everything.”
—Gerald Branan (18941987)
“No burst of nuclear phenomenon
That put an end to what was going on
Could make much difference to the dead and gone.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)