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Diffed vs Doffed - What's the difference?

diffed | doffed |

As verbs the difference between diffed and doffed

is that diffed is (diff) while doffed is (doff).

diffed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (diff)

    • 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

    doffed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (doff)

    • doff

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (clothing) to remove or take off, especially of clothing
  • * Shakespeare
    • And made us doff our easy robes of peace.
  • * Emerson
    • At night, or in the rain, / He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VII , passage=She had doffed the shirt and Bermuda-shorts which she had been wearing and was now dressed for her journey home.}}
  • to remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect
    • The rustics doffed their hats at the clergy.
  • to get rid of, to throw off
    • Doff that stupid idea: it would never work.
  • *1778 , Charles Dibdin, The Perfect Sailor :
  • *:Thus Death, who kings and tars despatches,
    • In vain Tom's life has doffed ,
  • *:For, though his body's under hatches
    • His soul has gone aloft.
  • (reflexive) To strip; to divest; to undress.
  • * Crashaw
    • Heaven's King, who doffs himself our flesh to wear.

    Antonyms

    * (remove or take off clothing)

    Derived terms

    *

    Synonyms

    * (remove clothing) (l)