Meanings (ES + gloss)
diferencia • discrimen
The quality of being different.
You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.
diferencia • discrimen
A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power…
There are three differences between these two pictures.
diferencia
A disagreement or argument.
We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.
What was the difference? It was a contention in public.
diferencia
The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
Phrases
age differenceantidifferenceas near as makes no differencecommon differencecreative differencesdeflection differencediffdifference enginedifference equationdifference gatedifference makerdifference of two squaresdifference quotientdifference setdifference-makerdifference-makingdistinction without a differenceelectric potential differenceequidifferencefinite differencegoal differenceknow the difference between one's ass and a hole in the groundknow the difference between one's ass and one's elbowlearning differencemake a differencemake all the differencemake the differencemass differencenondifferencephotodifferencepoint of differencepotential differencesame differenceset-theoretic differencesize differencesplit the differencespot the differencesymmetric differencetell the differencetime difference
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