Differs
[difəz]
Examples
- The lithographic press somewhat resembles in form an iron printing press, but differs from it greatly in its mode of action. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The manner of estimating numbers in the two armies differs materially. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As wine differs very much in its constitution the requisite quantity of salicylic acid must be found out by practice in each particular case. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- In the skeletons of the several breeds, the development of the bones of the face, in length and breadth and curvature, differs enormously. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Next, we shall ask our opponent how, in reference to any of the pursuits or arts of civic life, the nature of a woman differs from that of a man? Plato. The Republic.
- Are we not accustomed in daily life to recognizing that the reality differs very greatly from the ideas of it that we made before we acted? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- With its mechanism reduced to the fewest and simplest parts, the whole machine weighs only six pounds, and it differs in many respects from the ordinary typewriter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The quality of the whalebone also differs in the different species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In the second place, the method of organization of the material of achieved scholarship differs from that of the beginner. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Another special instrument is a dead beat galvanometer which differs from the ordinary form of galvanometer in having no coils or magnetic needle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Nitro-glycerine only differs in its manufacture from gun cotton in that glycerine is acted upon by the acids, instead of cotton. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This differs but little from the ordinary lift pump, as a reference to Figure 134 will show. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It differs from the Manila fiber, which has now very largely supplanted it, by being much softer, though of less strength. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These references to personal pride recall another characteristic of Edison wherein he differs from most men. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In closely allied species, also, the extent to which the same organ has been reduced occasionally differs much. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- For Hull House differs from most settlements in that it is full of pictures, of color, and of curios. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It differs from anger (Greek), this latter term having no accessory notion of righteous indignation. Plato. The Republic.
- In such forests each tree differs and there is character and beauty. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Life differs from all things whatever that are without life in certain general aspects. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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