Acid vs Difference - What's the difference?
acid | difference |
Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
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(lb) Sour-tempered.
*(Anthony Trollope) (1815-1882)
*:He was stern and his face as acid as ever.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
(lb) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
A sour substance.
(chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:-
# Any of a class of water-soluble compounds, having sour taste, that turn blue litmus red, and react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and with bases to form salts.
# Any compound that easily donates protons; a
# Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid
(slang) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
(uncountable) The quality of being different.
(countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
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(countable) A disagreement or argument.
* Shakespeare
* T. Ellwood
(countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
* 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
(countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
(obsolete) Choice; preference.
* Spenser
(heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
(logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
(logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation ().
(relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another ().
To distinguish or differentiate.
As nouns the difference between acid and difference
is that acid is acid (a food with a sharp taste) while difference is difference.As an adjective acid
is acid; sour; tart (having a sharp taste such as that of vinegar or a lemon).acid
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* (English Citations of "acid")Synonyms
* acidicAntonyms
* alkaline * baseNoun
Antonyms
* alkali * baseHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* acid rain * acid test * acid-base equilibrium * acid-base indicator * acid-fast * acidhead * acid house * acidic * acidify * acidimeter * acidity * acid jazz * acidly * acidophile / acidophilic * acidosis * acidulate * acidulous * acetic acid * acetylsalicylic acid * acid of air * acid of amber * acid of ants * acid of apples * acid of lemon * acid of milk * acid of salt * acid of sugar * acrylic acid * adipic acid * alginic acid * alpha-hydroxy acid * amino acid * arachidic acid * arachidonic acid * arsenic acid * ascorbic acid * aspartic acid * benzoic acid * bile acid * boric acid * bromic acid * butyric acid * capric acid * caproic acid * caprylic acid * carbamic acid * carbolic acid, phenol * carbonic acid * carboxylic acid * cerotic acid * chloric acid * cholic acid * chromic acid * citric acid * conjugate acid * connorstictic acid * consalazinic acid * constictic acid * convirensic acid * crotonic acid * cryptostictic acid * cyanic acid * cyanuric acid * cyclamic acid * deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA * erucic acid * ethanoic acid * fatty acid * folic acid * formic acid * fulminic acid * fumaric acid * fumarprotocetraric acid * galbinic acid * gibberellic acid * gluconic acid * glutamic acid * glyceric acid * glycolic acid * humic acid * hydriodic acid * hydrobromic acid * hydrochloric acid * hydrocyanic acid * hydrofluoric acid * hydrosulphurous acid * hydroxy acid * hypobromous acid * hypochlorous acid * hypofluorous acid * hypohalous acid * hypoiodous acid * hypophosphorous acid * hyposalazinic acid * hypostietic acid * hyposulphurous acid * indoleacetic acid * isobutyric acid * ketipic acid * lactic acid * lauric acid * Lewis acid * linoleic acid * linolenic acid * lysergic acid * maleic acid * malic acid * malonic acid * margaric acid * metaphosphoric acid * methacrylic acid * mucic acid * muriatic acid * myristic acid * nicotinic acid * nitric acid * nitrous acid * norisonotatic acid * norstictic acid * nucleic acid * oleic acid * * * osmic acid * oxaloacetic acid * oxalic acid * palmitic acid * pantothenic acid * pectic acid * pelargonic acid * perchloric acid * periodic acid * permanganic acid * petroselinic acid * phosphoric acid * phosphorous acid * phthalic acid * picric acid * propanoic acid * propionic acid * protocetraric acid * prussic acid * pyrogallic acid * pyrophosphoric acid * pyruvic acid * racemic acid * retinoic acid * ribonucleic acid, RNA * ricinoleic acid * salazinic acid * salicylic acid * sebacic acid * selenic acid * silicic acid * stearic acid * stictic acid * suberic acid * succinic acid * sulphonic acid, sulfonic acid * sulphuric acid, sulfuric acid * sulphurous acid, sulfurous acid * tannic acid * tantalic acid * tartaric acid * telluric acid * thiocyanic acid * thiosulphuric acid, thiosulfuric acid * titanic acid * toluic acid * trans fatty acid * tungstic acid * undecilenic acid * uric acid * usnic acid * valeric acid * vanadic acid * virensic acidSee also
* acerbic * acro- * pHReferences
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- We have our little differences , but we are firm friends.
- What was the difference ? It was a contention in public.
- Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could.
- 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.
- That now be chooseth with vile difference / To be a beast, and lack intelligence.
Synonyms
* (characteristic of something that makes it different from something else) departure, deviation, divergence * (disagreement or argument about something important) conflict, difference of opinion, dispute, dissension * (result of a subtraction) remainder * (significant change in state) nevermindAntonyms
* (quality of being different) identity, samenessDerived terms
* distinction without a difference * creative differences * difference engine * difference equation * difference gate * difference of two squares * goal difference * same difference * split the difference * spot the difference * tell the differenceSee also
* addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividendVerb
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