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difference | weed |

As nouns the difference between difference and weed

is that difference is difference while weed is pasture or weed can be willow.

difference

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being different.
  • (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
  • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
  • (countable) A disagreement or argument.
  • We have our little differences , but we are firm friends.
  • * Shakespeare
  • What was the difference ? It was a contention in public.
  • * T. Ellwood
  • Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could.
  • (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
  • * 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
  • The line of the horizon was clear and hard against the sky, and in one particular quarter it showed black against a silvery climbing phosphorescence that grew and grew. At last, over the rim of the waiting earth the moon lifted with slow majesty till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off, free of moorings; and once more they began to see surfaces—meadows wide-spread, and quiet gardens, and the river itself from bank to bank, all softly disclosed, all washed clean of mystery and terror, all radiant again as by day, but with a difference that was tremendous.
  • (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
  • (obsolete) Choice; preference.
  • * Spenser
  • That now be chooseth with vile difference / To be a beast, and lack intelligence.
  • (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
  • (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
  • (logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation (\scriptstyle A \overline B + \overline A B).
  • (relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).
  • Synonyms

    * (characteristic of something that makes it different from something else) departure, deviation, divergence * (disagreement or argument about something important) conflict, difference of opinion, dispute, dissension * (result of a subtraction) remainder * (significant change in state) nevermind

    Antonyms

    * (quality of being different) identity, sameness

    Derived terms

    * distinction without a difference * creative differences * difference engine * difference equation * difference gate * difference of two squares * goal difference * same difference * split the difference * spot the difference * tell the difference

    See also

    * addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

    Verb

    (differenc)
  • To distinguish or differentiate.
  • (en)

    Synonyms

    * (to distinguish or differentiate) differentiate, distinguish

    weed

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plant.
  • # (label) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
  • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds . Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
  • # (label) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.
  • # Short for duckweed.
  • # Underbrush; low shrubs.
  • #* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • one rushing forth out of the thickest weed
  • #* (1809-1892)
  • A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .
  • A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
  • # Marijuana.
  • # Tobacco.
  • # A cigar.
  • A horse unfit to breed from.
  • A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.
  • A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
  • Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * goutweed * hawkweed * horseweed * in the weeds * knapweed * knotweed * milkweed * pigweed * ragweed * tumbleweed
    See also
    * grow like a weed * weeds

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.
  • I weeded my flower bed.
    See also
    * weed out

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) , from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate to Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, German Wat.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
  • (archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
  • * 1599 ,
  • DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;
    And then to Leonato's we will go.
    CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,
    Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!
  • * 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
  • These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.
  • (archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
  • He wore a weed on his hat.
  • (archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel
  • * Milton
  • In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

    Etymology 4

    From the verb wee.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wee)
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