different
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
different/ˈdɪfrənt/
▶adjective
- 1 not the same as another or each other; unlike.
■ informal novel and unusual.
- 2 distinct; separate.
– derivatives
differently adverb,
differentness noun.
differently adverb,
differentness noun.
usage: There is little difference in sense between different from, different to, and different than, and all have been used by respected writers. Different from is traditionally held to be the correct collocation, and is by far the commonest in written evidence; different than, which is often criticized, is largely restricted to North America.
'different' also found in these Oxford entries:
abroad
- acculturate
- adaptive radiation
- adhesion
- afresh
- airlock
- airmiss
- allo-
- allogamy
- allograph
- allometry
- allosteric
- allotrope
- alterity
- ambiguous
- amphimixis
- anaglyph
- analogous
- anew
- anisotropic
- another
- arbitrage
- arytenoid
- assonance
- asymmetric bars
- asynchronous
- balance
- ball game
- band
- bank
- barbarism
- bifacial
- bifocal
- biocoenosis
- birefringent
- bitonal
- blend
- Box and Cox
- bring
- busted flush
- by-catch
- cameo
- cameo glass
- camera
- canon
- catch-all
- chalk
- change
- chimera
- choropleth map
