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Unlike vs Divergent - What's the difference?

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Unlike is a related term of divergent.


As adjectives the difference between unlike and divergent

is that unlike is not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance while divergent is growing further apart; diverging.

As a preposition unlike

is differently from; not in a like or similar manner.

As a verb unlike

is to dislike.

unlike

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) unlic, unlich, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance.
  • The brothers are quite unlike each other.
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  • Unequal.
  • They contributed in unlike amounts.
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  • (archaic) Not likely; improbable; unlikely.
  • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Differently from; not in a like or similar manner.
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  • In contrast with.
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  • Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (unlik)
  • To dislike.
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  • To withdraw support for a particular thing, especially on social networking websites
  • I unliked the video link after I realized it was making fun of me.
  • * 2009 , , “ On Language: The Age of Undoing”, in The New York Times Magazine, 2009 September 20, page MM8:
  • Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like'' button. Toggling off the button results in ''unliking''''' your previously ''liked'' item. Note that this is different from ''disliking'' something, since '''''unliking simply returns you to a neutral state.
  • * 2010 June 25, "TheKorn" (username), " Re: Pinball: RGP and/or Facebook", in rec.games.pinball, Usenet :
  • My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking " stern pinball entirely.

    divergent

    English

    Adjective

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  • Growing further apart; diverging.
  • * 1995 , Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator , John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 47:
  • Divergent thinking and transformations are, of course, no novel phenomena. They have always occurred in the translation process, but perhaps we have not been fully aware of them, or have not been able to categorise them with sufficient precision until now.
  • (mathematics) Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit.
  • Disagreeing from something given; differing.
  • a divergent statement
  • Causing divergence of rays.
  • a divergent lens

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