Different vs Discriminate - What's the difference?
different | discriminate |
Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
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* 1971 , William S. Burroughs, , page 6
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, title= 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:
Distinct, separate; (used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity).
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To make distinctions.
To make decisions based on prejudice.
To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
* Barrow
Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.
As verbs the difference between different and discriminate
is that different is while discriminate is to make distinctions.As an adjective discriminate is
having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.different
English
(wikipedia different)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
Ian Sample
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- 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.
Charles T. Ambrose
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.}}
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.
Synonyms
* distinctAntonyms
* alike * identical * same * similar * undifferentDerived 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 drumExternal links
* *discriminate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Since he was colorblind he was unable to discriminate between the blue and green bottles.
- The law prohibits discriminating against people based on their skin color.
- (Cowper)
- To discriminate the goats from the sheep.
Usage notes
Due to the strong pejorative connotations of sense of “decide based on prejudice”, care should be taken in using the term in the sense “distinguish, make distinctions”, and this sense is primarily used in formal discourse; synonyms are generally used instead.Synonyms
(make distinctions) * distinguish * differentiateDerived terms
* discriminative * discriminatoryAdjective
(en adjective)- (Francis Bacon)