More definitions of "difference":
- (noun): A disagreement or argument about something important.
Synonyms: dispute, difference of opinion, conflict
- (noun): The quality of being unlike or dissimilar.
Example: "There are many differences between jazz and rock"
- (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.
Synonyms: remainder
Famous quotes containing the word difference:
“The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.”
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)