DIFFERENCE

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Traducere în limba română

difference I. substantiv

1. deosebire, diferenţă, neasemănare, distincţie; nepotrivire; disproporţie;

it makes no difference e acelaşi lucru, e tot una; n-are importanţă;

the difference between tweedledum and tweedledee ori cu capul de piatră ori cu piatra de cap, aproape nici o deosebire;

it makes (a great) difference; it makes all the difference in the world asta e cu totul altceva, asta schimbă complet lucrurile;

to iron / to work out the differences a atenua / a micşora / a şterge deosebirile; a apropia punctele de vedere; a aplana divergenţele;

to split the difference a) a lua media / mărimea mijlocie; b) a adopta un compromis; a găsi o cale de mijloc.

2. diferend, dezacord, divergenţă, neînţelegere; ceartă;

to settle the difference a aplana diferendul.

3. diferenţă (între două cantităţi), rest;

to pay the difference a plăti diferenţa.

difference II. verb tranzitiv

1. a deosebi, a diferenţia.

2. (mat.) a diferenţia.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

There were his gods, and there were other gods, and between them there was a difference.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

They have been very kind to me in many ways, and I am grateful, for they are all rich and I know I am poor, yet they never made any difference.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

When he questioned, Sir Walter and Elizabeth began to question also, but the difference in their manner of doing it could not be unfelt.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

There is some difference between living with such an one as you and with Georgiana: you perform your own part in life and burden no one.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Why had he not invited him to dinner then? he asked himself. He had not changed. He was the same Martin Eden. What made the difference?

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

The difference now is that Jupiter, the planet of good fortune, will enter your second house of earned income on December 2 for the first time in a decade and remain there until December 19, 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

The analysis revealed more than 300 genetic differences from viruses responsible for past outbreaks.

(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)

“The time was, Mas'r Davy,” he said, as we came downstairs, “when I thowt this girl, Martha, a'most like the dirt underneath my Em'ly's feet. God forgive me, theer's a difference now!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

At times she slept, and both Van Helsing and I noticed the difference in her, between sleeping and waking.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

But that is one great difference between us.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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