Differ Definition

dĭfər
differed, differs
verb
differed, differs
To be dissimilar or unlike in nature, quality, amount, or form.
Ambition differs from greed.
American Heritage
To be unlike; be not the same.
Webster's New World
To be of opposite or unlike opinions; disagree.
Webster's New World
To quarrel (with)
Webster's New World

Not to have the same traits, characteristics.

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Origin of Differ

  • From Middle English differen, from Old French differer, from Latin differō (“carry apart, put off, defer; differ”), from dis- (“apart”) + ferō (“carry, bear”). Compare Ancient Greek διαφέρω (diapherō).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English differren from Old French differer from Latin differre to differ, delay dis- apart dis– ferre to carry bher-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Differ Sentence Examples

  • The habits and capacities of these two differ, owing to surroundings, irrespectively of tribe.

  • In one point, however, - the attitude toward the ritual - the two men differ radically.

  • In C. nigrescens and in some other species a zooid may contain a pair of ovaries, a pair of testes, or an ovary and a testis, although the males, females and hermaj phrodites do not differ from one another in external characters.

  • The penitenciers agricoles only differ from the maisons centrales in the matter of rgime; there are twoat Castelluccio and at Chiavari (Corsica).

  • I beg to differ, but I am seldom consulted when such decisions are made.

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Words Starting With

DDIDIF

Words Ending With

RERFER

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Words Starting With D and Ending With R

Starts With D & Ends With RStarts With DI & Ends With RStarts With D & Ends With ER

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With D6 Letter Words Ending With R