difference

  1. Noun.  (uncountable) The quality of being different.
  2. Noun.  (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
  3. Noun.  (countable) A disagreement or argument.
  4. Noun.  (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
  5. Noun.  (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
  6. Verb.  (rfquote-sense) (transitive) To distinguish or differentiate.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.