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difference

The quality of being different. You need to learn to accept differences in people. A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else. There are three differences between these two pictures. A disagreement or argument. The people had to settle their differences before they could work together.

difference

the quality of being unlike or dissimilar there are many differences between jazz and rock (= deviation) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm the deviation from the mean (= dispute, conflict) a disagreement or argument about something important he had a dispute with his wife there were irreconcilable differences the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats a significant change the difference in her is amazing his support made a real difference (= remainder) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend

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Simple sentences

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
Do you know the difference between silver and tin?
The exit flowrate is proportional to the pressure difference around the exit valve.
Do you understand the difference?
Do you know the difference?
What's the difference between a dog and a wolf?
What's the difference between microbes and bacteria?
It's a very big difference.
Will it make a difference?
Tom doesn't know the difference between geography and geology.
Sorry, but I really cannot tell the difference.
What's the difference between Russians and Slavs?
There is very little difference between the auxiliary verbs.
I hope you have brains enough to see the difference.
There is a fundamental difference between your opinion and mine.
It makes no difference whether you go or not.
It makes no difference to me whether you believe it or not.
It makes little difference to me whether you believe it or not.
We had a slight difference of opinion.
What's the difference?
That makes no difference.
That won't make any difference.
There is no surface difference between them.
It won't make any difference.
What is the difference between imitation and real diamonds?
Because of the difference in climate, the same crop is not cultivated in the North and East of the country.

Movie subtitles

This wasn't the only difference between the Chinese and the Portuguese.
Sometimes I think we'd make more of a difference without the badge.
We're making a difference.
I'm thinking if you had 20 years more experience, what a difference that would make for T.J.
Jared, without giving too much away, we're now of the belief that Declan isn't dead, just disappeared, if that makes any difference.
If you'd ever seen a baby born without recourse to pain relief you'd be a bit more aware of the difference it can make, and you'd have stopped at nothing to get it there.
Hey, no bra or no bra, it doesn't make a difference 'cause it's all coming off in a minute, yeah?
Is there an obvious difference between the sorceress and her customer then and now?
What difference does it make if there's love involved?
What's the difference if we rent the house today or next week?
Only, what's the difference?
It won't make no difference.
What's the difference, Rico?
That doesn't make any difference if they love each other.
There is a difference between both parts.
You'll see the difference!
No difference!
What's the difference if we rent the house today or next week? -lt's the same.
That doesn't make any difference, if they love each other.
What's the difference between a king and a butler?
And I've discovered it isn't only a difference in manner. and outward appearances.
It's a difference in basic character.
What difference does that make?
This is no difference from a small scaled war.
What's the difference between us?
With that kind of money it makes no difference.
Oh, what's the difference who takes him?
What difference does it make whether you do finish it?
I know what you're going to say but it doesn't make any difference.
What's the difference, just this once?
Oh, what's the difference, Hickory?
Heh-heh. Oh, well, that doesn't make any difference to me.
MY DEAR FELLOW, IF I CAN'T PAY IT, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHETHER IT'S HALF A FRANC OR 10 MILLION?
That makes no difference!
I beg your pardon. It makes all the difference in the world.

News and current affairs

There is a world of difference between an association of nation states bound together by treaty, and a single entity, whether you call it a state or not, with its own legal personality, deriving its authority from its own constitution.
Small changes in practices, when replicated by hundreds of millions of people, can make an enormous difference.
The difference between Czechoslovakia and Italy or Germany is mostly one of 50 years.
That six-percentage-point difference in anticipated real yield is a measure of bond investors' extraordinary and irrational panic.
But one lesson of modern finance theory is that, in well functioning financial markets, repackaging risks should not make much difference.
CAMBRIDGE - What a difference the crisis has made for the International Monetary Fund.
But simply giving developing nations greater voting power will make little difference if the IMF's organizational culture is not changed as well.
Statistically, this is a huge difference - nine times larger than in the US.
Indeed, just as our initial research uncovered no evidence of relative Muslim egalitarianism, we discovered no major difference between preference for sons among Christians and Muslims.
But there is an enormous difference: all of these countries have reserves that will last another 70-100 years.
The difference is reflected in economic growth.
The machines can now even be set to imitate famous human players - including their flaws - so well that only an expert eye (and sometimes only another computer!) can tell the difference.
Over the course of a small number of games on the Internet, I could not easily tell the difference.
But if there is one area where obvious opportunities exist, and where policy can really make a difference, it would have to be infrastructure investment.
Getting seed and fertilizer to smallholder farmers at highly subsidized prices (or even free in some cases) will make a lasting difference.
Obama, Rudd, Zapatero, and other forward-thinking leaders can therefore make a huge difference by following up on their pledges at the G-8 and insisting that the aid really works.
Women, of course, are not alone in their opposition to Berlusconi, but they made the difference in Milan.
Educated, pushy mothers make all the difference.
But a crucial difference between Nakasone and Koizumi is often overlooked: their handling of the Yasukuni controversy and relations with China.
We have a great revolutionary past that still conveys universal values - liberty, equality, fraternity - and an army that, as in Mali, continues to make a difference in the world.
France is not Imperial Rome, where panem et circenses made a fundamental difference.
To make up the difference, Americans need to compete effectively for a portion of global demand.
How many travelers nowadays can fail to note the difference between Asia's new, efficient airports and the aging, clogged antiques in some major US cities?
Of the four growth components that fall into this category, two have the greatest potential to make a difference - capital spending and exports.
Maybe the most important point - and a key difference with the Clintons - is that this experiment begins in an Argentina that suffers from great institutional vulnerability.

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