Different vs Composite - What's the difference?

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Different is a related term of composite.

As verbs the difference between different and composite

is that different is while composite is to make a composite.

As an adjective composite is

made up of multiple components; compound or complex.

As a noun composite is

a mixture of different components.

different

English

(wikipedia different)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not the same; exhibiting a difference.

* 1971 , William S. Burroughs, , page 6

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.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample

, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}

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:

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.

Distinct, separate; (used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity).

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose

, title= 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.}}

Unlike most others; unusual.

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.

Of these, (term) is more common in formal registers than in informal ones, and more common in the US than elsewhere; (term) is more common in the US than elsewhere; and (term) is more common in the UK, in Australia, and in New Zealand than in the US. Style guides often advocate (term), by analogy with (term) rather than *(term) or *(term), and (term) and (term).

Synonyms

* distinct

Antonyms

* alike * identical * same * similar * undifferent

Derived terms

* different as chalk and cheese * different drummer * different ideal * different light * different strokes * horse of a different color * march to the beat of a different drum

Noun

(en noun)

(mathematics) The different ideal.

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composite

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Made up of multiple components; compound or complex.

(architecture) Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles.

(mathematics) Not prime; having factors.

(botany) Being a member of the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets.

Derived terms

* composite bow * composite sketch

Noun

(en noun)

A mixture of different components.

A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.

(botany) A plant belonging to the family Compositae .

(mathematics) A function of a function.

(chiefly, law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, or the like, that combines several separate pictures or images.

Derived terms

* DYC

Verb

(composit)

To make a composite.

I composited an image using computer software.