to differ
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2.6
- verb
- /ˈdɪfər/
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diferir (en)
- How does Asian or Latin American democracy differ from European or North American democracy?
- differ significantly
- groups differ
- differ in terms of
And these are also characteristics that differ across class.
- And these are also characteristics that differ across class.
- How do their wristwatch times when they move differ from cosmic time?
- Interestingly, boys and girls don't differ a lot in in toy choice.
- And so how do these emotions differ from each other?
- How does artificial intelligence differ from just intelligence?
- And how do their values differ from ours?
- And yet any two siblings of the same parents differ in millions of locations.
- So same sex twins that only differed in that one had diabetes and one didn't.
- So twin primes are primes which differ by two.
Examples
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And how do their values differ from ours?
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The bad news is that most students' musical interests differ from those of their teachers.
Academic text (2011) -
How do women and their life goals and purpose differ from that?
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Now, how does that differ from my credit card?
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And it can differ among people.
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And so how do these emotions differ from each other?
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How does artificial intelligence differ from just intelligence?
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How would you say your work differs from that of a professional athlete?
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How do the species that have arisen here differ from those in other places?
Fiction book (1999) -
The opinions of the two experts differ significantly on this issue.
Synonyms
239
2.5
Be different depending on the time or situation
23
1.6
Not match what another thing or person shows
Antonyms
How Different
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word differ comes from the Latin parts dis- 'apart' and ferre 'to carry'. The idea of things being 'carried apart' helps you remember that to differ means to be unlike or not the same, which is the same root you see in transfer ('to carry across').