Differentiate vs Merchandise - What's the difference?
differentiate | merchandise |
To show, or be the distinction between two things.
* Earle
* {{quote-book, year=1933
, passage=The mass of the rich and poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
, author=George Orwell, title=Down and Out in Paris and London, chapter=Ch. XXII, page=120, publisher=Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition}}
To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.
* {{quote-book, title=, year=1964
, passage=he refused to instruct that actual intent to harm or recklessness had to be found before punitive damages could be awarded, or that a verdict for respondent should differentiate between compensatory and punitive damages.}}
(intransitive) To modify, or be modified.
(mathematics) To calculate the derivative of a function.
(mathematics) To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.
(biology) To produce distinct organs or to achieve specific functions by a process of development called differentiation.
* {{quote-book, title=, year=1930, author=Robert Evans Snodgrass
, passage=In Chapter IV we learned that every animal consists of a body, or soma, formed of cells that are differentiated from the germ cells usually at an early stage of development.}}
(uncountable) Commodities offered for sale.
(countable) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
(uncountable) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
(archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
(archaic) To engage in the trade of.
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
To promote as if for sale.
As verbs the difference between differentiate and merchandise
is that differentiate is to show, or be the distinction between two things while merchandise is .differentiate
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Verb
(differentiat)- The word "then" was differentiated into the two forms "then" and "than".
Derived terms
* differentiationExternal links
* *merchandise
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Alternative forms
* merchandize , merchaundise (obsolete),merchaundize (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- ''good business depends on having good merchandise
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "merchandise": returned, used, damaged, stolen, assorted, lost, promotional, industrial, cheap, expensive, imported, good, inferior.Synonyms
* wares * productVerb
(merchandis)- (Francis Bacon)
- He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.
- He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.
- The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.