Allay vs Diff - What's the difference?
allay | diff |
To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
(obsolete) To subside, abate, become peaceful.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Mark IV:
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in Scarlet alleviation; abatement; check
(slang)
(computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
(computing) The output of a diff program. A diff file.
* 2004 , , Great Hackers ,
(medicine) : differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
(slang)
(rock climbing) A difficult route.
(computing) To run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file.
(computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
(computing) A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
As verbs the difference between allay and diff
is that allay is to make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm while diff is (computing) to run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file.As nouns the difference between allay and diff
is that allay is alleviation; abatement; check while diff is (slang).As a proper noun diff is
(computing) a program, historically part of the unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.allay
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- to allay popular excitement
- to allay the tumult of the passions
- to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity
- And the wynde alayed , and there folowed a greate calme: and he sayde unto them: why are ye fearfull?
- When the rage allays .
- (Fuller)
Quotations
He had to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have been aroused by his appearance at the gate.—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in Scarlet
Synonyms
* alleviate; check; repress; assuage; appease; abate; subdue; destroy; compose; soothe; calm; quietNoun
References
*Anagrams
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Noun
(en noun)- A peach and an apricot? What's the diff ?
Essay:
- I didn't want to waste people's time telling them things they already knew. It's more efficient just to give them the diffs .
