English Dictionary

difference

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdɪfɹəns/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞 廃用 関係形容詞

(uncountable) The quality of being different. / (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else. / (countable) A disagreement or argument.

日本語の意味

物事が他と異なる性質や特徴 / 物事の間に存在する違い、相違点 / 意見の不一致、論争

Difference in perspective often leads to more creative solutions.

視点の違いはしばしばより創造的な解決策につながる。

意味（1）

(uncountable) The quality of being different.

You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.

意味（2）

(countable) 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): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

意味（3）

(countable) A disagreement or argument.

We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.

意味（4）

(countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.

The line of the horizon was clear and hard against the sky, and in one particular quarter it showed black against a silvery climbing phosphorescence that grew and grew. At last, over the rim of the waiting earth the moon lifted with slow majesty till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off, free of moorings; and once more they began to see surfaces—meadows wide-spread, and quiet gardens, and the river itself from bank to bank, all softly disclosed, all washed clean of mystery and terror, all radiant again as by day, but with a difference that was tremendous.

意味（5）

(countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.

The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.

意味（6）

(obsolete) Choice; preference.

That now be chooseth with vile difference To be a beast, and lack intelligence.

意味（7）

(heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.

意味（8）

(logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

意味（9）

(logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB).

意味（10）

(relational algebra) The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B).

differences （ plural ）