Phrase Hound found 60 phrases and 6 compound words that contain difference. The most common are listed below. Open difference in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 60
- make a differenceTo carry out an action, the result of which is a significant change, or an altered circumstance.
- make the differenceTo be the decisive factor.
- tell the differenceTo differentiate similar things.
- split the differenceIn a financial transaction, to settle on an amount midway between the offer and the asking price.
- time differenceThe difference between one measurement of time and another; the length of a time interval.
- made the differencesimple past and past participle of make the difference
- making the differencepresent participle and gerund of make the difference
- Significant difference
- makes the differencethird-person singular simple present indicative of make the difference: To be the decisive factor.
- Big Difference
- made a differencesimple past and past participle of make a difference
- makes a differencethird-person singular simple present indicative of make a difference: To carry out an action, the result of which is a significant change, or an altered circumstance.
- making a differencepresent participle and gerund of make a difference
- world of differenceA great or insurmountable difference.
- age differenceA difference in ages between two or more people.
- spot the differenceA type of puzzle in which the object is to find a certain number of minor differences between two pictures, usually printed side by side, that are otherwise identical.
- difference of opinionA disagreement.
- potential differencethe difference in potential energy between two points in an electric field; the difference in charge between two points in an electrical circuit; voltage
- goal differenceThe difference between the number of goals scored and the number of goals conceded, over the duration of a competition.
- difference engineA mechanical special-purpose computer used to generate tables of values of polynomials.
- common differenceThe constant added to each element of an arithmetic progression to obtain the next.
- finite differenceA difference between the value of a function evaluated at a number, and the value of the same function evaluated at a different number, a fixed distance from the first.
- make all the differenceTo be a crucial or deciding factor; to have a very significant effect (often a positive one).
- same differenceA distinction which makes no difference; a distinction which does not matter.
- point of differenceA factor that makes one company or product different from the others.
Compound words 6
- undifferencedNot having a mark of difference.
- microdifferenceA microscale difference.
- antidifferenceA function F(x) is the antidifference of f(x) if F(x+1)-F(x)=f(x).
- nondifferenceAbsence of difference.
- equidifferenceAn equal difference.
- photodifferenceUsed attributively to describe a map of the electron density differences between parts of a sample that had been irradiated