Noun

(en noun)

Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.

He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.

* John Locke

Most take things upon trust .

1671', O ever-failing '''trust / In mortal strength! — John Milton, ''Samson Agonistes

Dependence upon something in the future; hope.

1611', Such '''trust have we through Christ. — ''Authorised Version , 2 Corinthians iii:4.

Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.

I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust .

That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.

That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.

* Bible, Psalms, lxxi. 5

O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth.

(rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.

The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.

* Shakespeare

[I] serve him truly that will put me in trust .

* Denham

Reward them well, if they observe their trust .

(legal) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.

I put the house into my sister's trust .

(legal) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another.

A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.

(computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.

Noun

(uncountable) The quality of being different.

(countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.

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(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 ($\backslash scriptstyle\; A\; \backslash overline\; B\; +\; \backslash overline\; A\; B$).

(relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another ($\backslash scriptstyle\; A\; \backslash overline\; B$).