Differing vs Diverge - What's the difference?
differing | diverge |
difference
* 1983 , Robert Bator, Signposts to criticism of children's literature
* 2007 , Youru Wang, Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought
(intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
* 1916 , :
To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
(intransitive, literally, of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
As verbs the difference between differing and diverge
is that differing is while diverge is .As a noun differing
is difference.differing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- I knew nothing then of the great differings and philosophizings, the setting up and tearing down of fine lines technically and aesthetically between the two that had been going on among the devotees of each
- It is the differings and deferrings of language that produce meanings, truths and values
diverge
English
Verb
(diverg)- Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both /
- Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.
- The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.
- The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.
- The sequence diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.