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Diff vs Disaccharide - What's the difference?

diff | disaccharide |

As nouns the difference between diff and disaccharide

is that diff is (slang) while disaccharide is (carbohydrate) any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together.

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.

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.

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

    disaccharide

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (carbohydrate) Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together.
  • Hyponyms

    * sucrose * lactose * maltose * trehalose * turanose * cellobiose

    Coordinate terms

    * monosaccharide * trisaccharide * tetrasaccharide * oligosaccharide * polysaccharide