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different

If two or more things are different, they are not like each other, not the same. The two things have two sizes, not both the same size; or they have two shapes, they don't both have one shape; or they each have a color, not just one color for both things; or they are not the like each other in some other way. The day and night are quite different. My brother's bike is different from mine.

different

unlike in nature or quality or form or degree took different approaches to the problem came to a different conclusion different parts of the country on different sides of the issue this meeting was different from the earlier one distinctly separate from the first that's another (or different) issue altogether differing from all others; not ordinary advertising that strives continually to be different this new music is certainly different but I don't really like it (= unlike) marked by dissimilarity for twins they are very unlike people are profoundly different distinct or separate each interviewed different members of the community

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Simple sentences

What you say is quite different from what I heard from him.
Jimmy's pictures were different from other people's.
We are different from animals in that we can speak.
My plan is different from yours.
Human beings are different from animals in that they can think and speak.
She was different from most women in the neighborhood, for she was able to read and write.
There are different amounts of medicine in these two bottles.
Although there are wide variations in unemployment levels in different industries and in different parts of the country, every region is now being affected by the slow-down in the economy.
Tom wants something different.
Women not only see things differently from men, but they see different things.
The children were different from her.
Mary is dating two different guys at the same time.
I suppose it's different when you think about it over the long term.
Mathematicians are like French people: whatever you tell them they translate it into their own language and turn it into something totally different.
Mathematicians are like some Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
You don't have to make a different dish for every person.
I consider the Jehovah's witnesses who knock on my door all the time to be no different from religious zealots trying to force their beliefs on me.
Your ideas are different from mine.
Your method is different from mine.
Living in the town is quite different from living in the country.
The girl who I thought was a singer proved to be a different person.
London is different from Tokyo climatically.
Of course our lifestyle is different from America.
They are different in degree but not in kind.
A piece of railway in use today is therefore the product of a long series of decisions reached on many different grounds, at different times.
I would do it in a different way than you did.
I look very different.
There are a lot of different people in Europe.
A more experienced lawyer would have dealt with the case in a different way.

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When we're like this, it doesn't seem too different from being in Britannia.
Dick Whittington had to watch where he put his feet, because the streets of his city were paved with something very different from gold.
In a short time, the fleet was loaded up with representatives of 30 different kings and chiefs ready to acknowledge the cosmic ascendancy of the Ming emperor.
How very different it would be for the altogether more modest voyages about to be undertaken by a remarkable man from the tiny little European kingdom of Portugal.
Look, I like to have fun just as much as the next guy, you know, but um, look, things are different now.
Well uum, I think it's really different!
Zero, yes, but there's always hope that tomorrow will be different.
Right, just. different things is all.
If we look for life in the universe we have to understand it will come in different shapes and sizes.
The idea that life can emerge from a different kind of liquid is adding a whole new dimension to our search.
Other environments very different from that on the Earth could harbour life.
Over hundreds of millions of years, all the creatures of our planet have adapted to their environment, so the chemistries are similar, which means your genetic makeup isn't all that different from an earthworm, or even your pet.
It's fun to speculate about how life might evolve under conditions that are very different from those here on the earth.
It was something different.
Today this is quite normal. But at the time, it was like going to a different continent!
It recorded the hydrogen radio emission at different frequencies.
This registration shows the intensity of the radio emission at different frequencies.
Our task was to measure the radio intensities at different frequencies.
He then determined where in the Galaxy the hydrogen atoms with different velocities were located.
The Dutch part of the map looks sharper than the Australian part, because of the slightly different methods of calculation used.
How is that different from colonization?
She's different.
It's different between us, isn't it?
Your worlds are too different.
They have different customs and values and another religion.
This is different!
They have different customs and values.
The territories are all controlled by different groups who all have their own rules for who gets to play where.
They like to stay mobile, launching from different spots, using different methods.
I've always said they are two different sides of the same coin.
Scott and Derek have two completely different approaches to solving problems.
There was always this perplexed look on my face because she had no idea what was going on throughout all of these different scenarios of seeing ghosts and are they ghosts or are they, you know, just hallucinations of her own mind?
It's a different beacon hills.
I didn't understand anything because it was in a different language.
There are currently different views from just participating in the WOC.
Although I'm a bit different from him, what do you think of me?
Yesterday, you seduced in many different ways.
If he was alive, I think tomorrow's sun will be different.
I am different than the simple Lee Seo Rim.
SHE WAS DIFFERENT. SHE WAS LIKE. LIKE A REAL MOM.

News and current affairs

A different kind of revolution was taking place in Europe's former colonies in Asia, where native peoples had no desire to be ruled once more by Western powers, which had been so ignominiously defeated by Japan.
First, funds from different sources of finance are interchangeable to a certain degree: deficiency of funds for one component of total debt can be supplemented by surplus funds originally aimed at financing other components.
Air safety is slightly different, because a crashing plane can kill people on the ground, but the greatest risks by far are borne by the passengers and crew.
The Union's members should form a series of overlapping circles: different combinations of members should be able to pool their responsibilities in different areas of their own choosing.
They first look at the different ways that climate change will affect us at mid-century.
Or at least, to consider perhaps a quite different question: where would it be reasonable for the EU to move?
But a post-crisis recovery is a very different animal.
As Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff have shown in their book This Time is Different, over the long sweep of history, post-crisis recoveries in output and employment tend to be decidedly subpar.
Farmers are a different story.
But there are two things different about today.
My hosts, the Kweku Hutchful Foundation, invited me with a different question in mind: How can Ghanaian leaders be developed?
But human predators are different.
A strategy for a Global Green New Deal, tailored to different national challenges, will be fleshed out in order to assist world leaders and ministers craft stimulus packages that work on multiple fronts.
In the case of Ireland, the situation was initially not much different.
When Sarkozy, who otherwise has such finely tuned media instincts, protests that he's no different from any other man, he comes dangerously close to confusing the office and the person of the president.
The EU's legitimacy problem has two different aspects: apathy, leading to a low turnout in the European parliamentary elections, and outright euro-skepticism.
The most recent phase of the advanced economies' frenzied search for growth took different forms.
To arrive at an informed answer, we need to work out how the planet will look in 2100 if we invest different amounts in adaptation and carbon cuts.
Reaching a proper answer to these questions requires extensive economic modeling, with different variables calculated and regional differences analyzed.
Almost simultaneously, Thein Sein offered even stronger signals that his was a very different Burmese administration: he freed political prisoners and invited Suu Kyi for direct talks with him.
The main question is whether the growing number of women in politics will deliver the different perspectives and modes of leadership that many voters (or protesters) now seem to crave.
The core theory with which emerging feminists in more traditional and religious societies are working is far different from that of Western feminism - and in some ways far more profound and humane.
Between 2002 and 2006, Brazil's SME support services and the Milan Chamber of Commerce created partnerships involving furniture, shoes, designer lingerie, and handicrafts from different regions of the country.

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