Diff

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Informal Difference: "[His] flaw . . . starts with a fleshy calculation, an instinct to blunt disagreement and split the diff” ( Peggy Noonan).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Abbreviation of difference.
  • n. Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
  • n. The output of a diff program. A diff file.
  • n. Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
  • n. Abbreviation of difficult.
  • n. A difficult route.
  • v. To run a diff program on (files or items).
  • v. To produce a description of changes made to a collection of files. To produce a patch file.
  • v. To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
  • proper-noun. A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An abbreviation of difference, different, or differs.
  • Word Usage
    "Not only is its title différent from the first édition but there are many changes in the text Nearly al! of the material in the two volumes of the fîrst édition is put into the fîrst volume of this édition."
    Verb Form
    duffed    duffing    duffs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pudding   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    duffed    duffing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rump    ass    fake    bum   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Slough    bluff    bruff    buff    cuff    enough    fluff    gruff    guff    hough   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    puttin'    damson    puddin    pastie    lettin'    frettin'    bolic    oxy-    curculio    beetroot