Different
['dɪf(ə)r(ə)nt] or ['dɪfrənt]
Definition
(adj.) differing from all others; not ordinary; 'advertising that strives continually to be different'; 'this new music is certainly different but I don't really like it' .
(adj.) unlike in nature or quality or form or degree; 'took different approaches to the problem'; 'came to a different conclusion'; 'different parts of the country'; 'on different sides of the issue'; 'this meeting was different from the earlier one' .
(adj.) distinctly separate from the first; 'that's another (or different) issue altogether' .
(adj.) distinct or separate; 'each interviewed different members of the community' .
Edited by Alta--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Distinct; separate; not the same; other.
(a.) Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different shapes; different degrees of excellence.
Edited by Lelia
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Distinct, separate, not the same.[2]. Unlike, dissimilar, various, diverse, manifold.
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Examples
- Your circle is rather different from ours. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I believe I could make an independent fortune in a few years if I devoted myself exclusively to portraits, so great is the desire for good portraits in the different country towns. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Different benevolent-minded ladies and gentlemen in this neighbourhood and in London. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There are also characters peculiar to different nations and particular persons, as well as common to mankind. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I had seven different schemes for getting a glimpse of that telegram, but I could hardly hope to succeed the very first time. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yet they all had lived and died unconscious of the different fates awaiting their relics. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A party that tried to answer every conflicting interest would stand still because people were pulling in so many different directions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Many treatises in different languages have been published on pigeons, and some of them are very important, as being of considerable antiquity. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Whereas, it must be evident to yourself, as it is to me, that you have been this evening very different from what you were before. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The leading idea was different from customary muckraking. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The second book begins with an account of different philosophic al views concerning the origin of matter, and a discussion of the earliest dwellings of man. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But all was not well, and, as has happened so often before, the politics of father and son were violently different. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As they passed the different mile-stones, Oliver wondered, more and more, where his companion meant to take him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- When light passes from air into water, or from any transparent substance into another of different density, its direction is changed, and it emerges along an entirely new path (Fig. 64). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Musical instruments maybe divided into three groups according to the different ways in which their tones are produced:-- _First. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I've saved you some thousands of dollars, at different times, by taking care of your hands,--that's all the thanks I get. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The planing machine is organized in various shapes for different uses. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Volta of Pavia, took decided issue with Galvani and maintained that the pretended animal electricity was nothing but electricity developed by the contact of two different metals. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Every thing, that is different is distinguishable: and everything, that is distinguishable, may be separated, according to the maxims above-explained. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Catherine and Lydia had information for them of a different sort. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The neighbourhood of Brunswick Square is very different from almost all the rest. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Our family; our honourable family, whose honour is of so much account to both of us, in such different ways. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Servants, labourers, and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- That bridge, though of different material, was in its principle of construction similar to the iron tubular bridges at Conway and at the Menai Straits. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He had it written up for the newspapers, and advertised public demonstrations of its powers, and arranged that Bell should lecture on it in different cities. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Glass thermometers of the above type are the ones most generally used, but there are many different types for special purposes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The explanation of this is, that a string may vibrate in a number of different ways. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I should say so, but that I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The ladies had not been long in the drawing-room, before the other ladies, in their different divisions, arrived. Jane Austen. Emma.
- You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may prove to be little relation between the different incidents of which I speak. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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