difference
What is the Definition of difference?
Noun:
- the quality of being unlike or dissimilar
- a variation that deviates from the standard or norm
- a disagreement or argument about something important
- a significant change
- the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend
How can I use difference in a sentence?
He did not catch it, he nearly swallowed it, Flint was still howling twenty minutes later, but it made no difference — Harry had not broken any rules and Lee Jordan was still happily shouting the results — Gryffindor had won by one hundred and seventy points to sixty.
By the end of the lesson, only Hermione Granger had made any difference to her match; Professor McGonagall showed the class how it had gone all silver and pointy and gave Hermione a rare smile.
Harry must have had more haircuts than the rest of the boys in his class put together, but it made no difference, his hair simply grew that way — all over the place.
I never know, Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, what is the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?
He might have died and you would not know the difference, said Ron in disgust.
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