different
Usage
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The adjective different emphasizes separateness and dissimilarity: two different (or differing) versions of the same story. Distinct implies a uniqueness that is clear and unmistakable: plans similar in objective but distinct in method. Diverse, in describing ideas or opinions, suggests degrees of difference that may be at odds or challenging to reconcile: diverse views on how the area should be zoned. Various stresses the multiplicity of sorts or instances of a thing or a class of things: various sorts of seaweed; busy with various duties.
Example Sentences
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Today, Mars is known as a cold, dry desert, but its surface tells a very different story.
From Science Daily
Frequency combs generated in this way could help synchronize very different systems, connecting ultrafast terahertz signals with conventional electronics or even quantum devices.
From Science Daily
Future research will focus on how specific bacterial proteins interact with human cells in different tissues and disease settings.
From Science Daily
An obscure government data series that tracks the amount of leverage employed by different categories of hedge funds — including trendy “multi-strat” funds known as “pod shops” — may offer more insight.
From MarketWatch
And as strange as it might sound for the Bears to play in Indiana, it wouldn’t really be any different than the New York Jets and Giants actually playing their home games in New Jersey.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
