Definition of Differ

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Differ

To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.

To be of unlike or opposite opinion; to disagree in sentiment; -- often with from or with.

To have a difference, cause of variance, or quarrel; to dispute; to contend.

To cause to be different or unlike; to set at variance.

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Differ Quotations

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mohandas Gandhi

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Ernest Hemingway

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.
Ernest Holmes

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

To think is to differ.
Clarence Darrow

The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
Otto Rank

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. Forster

Differ Translations

differ in Afrikaans is verskil
differ in Dutch is uiteenlopen, verschillen, schelen
differ in Finnish is erota
differ in German is abweichen, abweichen
differ in Italian is declinare, distinquere
differ in Portuguese is difira
differ in Spanish is divergir, diferir
differ in Swedish is skiljer sig

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