Conflict vs Different - What's the difference?
conflict | different |
A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
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, volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
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* 1971 , William S. Burroughs, , page 6
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, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Various, assorted, diverse.
* 2006 , Delbert S. Elliott et al., Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521863575, page 19:
Distinct, separate; (used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity).
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, title= Unlike most others; unusual.
As verbs the difference between conflict and different
is that conflict is to be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible while different is .As a noun conflict
is a clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.conflict
English
(wikipedia conflict)Noun
(en noun)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
Verb
(en verb)- Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.
References
* English heteronyms ----different
English
(wikipedia different)Adjective
(en adjective)- Enter the American tourist. He thinks of himself as a good guy but when he looks in the mirror to shave this good guy he has to admit that "well, other people are different from me and I don't really like them." This makes him feel guilty toward other people.
Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
- In any case, poor black respondents living in high-poverty neighborhoods are most likely to view their neighborhood as a single block or block group and to use this definition consistently when asked about different neighborhood characteristics and activities.
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
Usage notes
* (not the same) Depending on dialect, time period, and register, the adjective may be construed with one of the prepositions (from), (to), and (than), or with the subordinating conjunction (than).- Pleasure is different from'''/'''than'''/'''to''' happiness.''
- ''It's different '''than''' ''(or '''''from what'' )'' I expected.