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US
/ˈdɪfɝənt, ˈdɪfɹənt/
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[ UK /dˈɪfɹənt/ ]
[ UK /dˈɪfɹənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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distinctly separate from the first
that's another (or different) issue altogether -
unlike in nature or quality or form or degree
on different sides of the issue
different parts of the country
came to a different conclusion
this meeting was different from the earlier one
took different approaches to the problem -
distinct or separate
each interviewed different members of the community -
differing from all others; not ordinary
this new music is certainly different but I don't really like it
advertising that strives continually to be different
How To Use different In A Sentence
- Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
- Apart from any other objection, a different classification would be reached if the characters were used in a different sequence.
- Manchester City have put themselves into a different stratosphere and a lot of players want to be part of that. Times, Sunday Times
- It's different now, there are a few more pundits and a lot of faceless people out there on social media who all have an opinion. The Sun
- We chit-chatted about a lot of different things, and none of it was really important.
- But it is worthwhile teasing this apart a little, unbinding the different aspects of rhetorics lumped together in one component and separating out the semiotic layering (i.e. the use of metaphor and metonym) stuck in with the second. On the Sublime
- The firms restructured in different ways. Times, Sunday Times
- Fly fishers in the salt water environment need something entirely different to their freshwater counterpart on the chalk stream, as does the angler who fishes big reservoirs.
- Under the "fly-in fly-out" roster system, workers can be moved to a different self-contained unit, or "donga", rather than having their own rooms, as they have had in the past. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
- They asked around and at least five different people have seen him.