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DIFFERENCE, n.

1. The state of being unlike or distinct distinction disagreement want of sameness variation dissimilarity. Difference may be total or partial, and exist in the nature and essence of things, in the form, the qualities or degrees. There is a difference in nature between animals and plants a difference in form between the genera and species of animals a difference of quality in paper and a difference in degrees of heat, or of light.

2. The quality which distinguishes one thing from another.

3. Dispute debate contention quarrel controversy.

What was the difference? It was a contention in public.

4. The point in dispute ground of controversy.

5. A logical distinction.

6. Evidences or marks of distinction.

The marks and differences of sovereignty.

7. Distinction.

There is no difference between the Jew and the Greek. Romans 10 .

8. In mathematics, the remainder of a sum or quantity, after a lesser sum or quantity is subtracted.

9. In logic, an essential attribute, belonging to some species, and not found in the genus being the idea that defines the species.

10. In heraldry, a certain figure added to a coat of arms, serving to distinguish one family from another, or to show how distant a younger branch is from the elder or principal branch.

DIFFERENCE, To cause a difference or distinction. A regular administration of justice according to fixed laws differences a civilized from a savage state.