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Creek vs Diff - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between creek and diff

is that creek is one of a native american tribe from the southeastern united states while diff is (slang).

As proper nouns the difference between creek and diff

is that creek is the muskogean language of the creek tribe while 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.

As an adjective creek

is of or pertaining to the creek tribe.

As a verb 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.

creek

English

Noun

(wikipedia creek) (en noun)
  • A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
  • Any turn or winding.

    • Synonyms

    * beck, brook, burn, stream

    Derived terms

    * up the creek

    References

    diff

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang)
    • A peach and an apricot? What's the diff ?
  • (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 , 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 .
  • (medicine) : differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
  • (slang)
  • (rock climbing) A difficult route.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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.

    • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (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.

    • See also

    * (computing ) patch

    Related terms

    * (computing ) diff file