Difference

Definition

difference /'dÇfrǝns/ n ၁။ [C] ~ ( between A and B ) ျခားနား ခ်က္။ ကြဲျပားခ်က္။ ေျပာင္းလဲခ်က္။ ကြာျခားခ်က္။ There are marked differences between the two children. ❍ Have you noticed a difference in her recently? ❍ It's easy to tell the difference (ie distinguish) between butter and margarine. ၂။ [C, U] ~ ( in sth ) ( between A and B ) ကြာဟမႈ။ ျခားနားခ်က္။ ေျပာင္းလဲမႈ။ အပိုအလို။ There's an age difference of six years between them (ie one of them is six years older than the other). ❍ I'll lend you 90% of the money and you'll have to find the difference (ie the other 10%). ❍ We measured the difference(s) in temperature. ❍ There's not much difference in price between the two computers. ၃။ [C] ~ ( between A and B ) ( over sth ) အျမင္မတူမႈ။ သေဘာ ထားကြဲလြဲမႈ။ Why don't you settle your differences and be friends again? ❍ There was a difference of opinion over who had won. ❏ for all the differences it/sth makes [ IDM ] မဆိုစေလာက္ ကြဲျပားတာေလးကို စကားထဲထည့္ေျပာတယ္။ ❏ make a, no, some, etc difference (to sb/sth) [ IDM ] ၁။ ထူးျခားမႈ၊ ေျပာင္းလဲမႈ ရိွသည္/ မရိွ။ The rain didn't make much difference (to the game). ❍ The sea air has made a big difference to (ie greatly improved) her health. ❍ A hot shower makes all the difference (ie makes you feel better) in the morning. ၂။ အေရးႀကီးသည္/မႀကီး။ အေၾကာင္းထူးသည္/မထူး။ It makes no difference (to me) what you say: I'm not going. ❍ It won't make much difference whether you go today or tomorrow. ❍ Does that make any difference (ie Is it important, need we consider it)? ❍ Yes, it makes all the difference (ie it is very important). ❏ with a difference [ IDM ] (following ns ) အမ်ားႏွင့္မတူ တစ္မူထူးေသာ။ She's an opera singer with a difference: she can act as well!

Examples

1. Cultural/social/political differences
2. [difference between] : What’s the difference between these two computers?
3. [difference in] : There’s a big difference in the attitudes of town and country people.
4. [slight/subtle/minor differences] : There are subtle differences in their arrangement of the music.
5. [significant/marked/major difference] : The significant difference in sound quality between CDs and records
6. [crucial/essential/fundamental difference] : The fundamental difference between John and Jake is their attitudes to money.
7. The same car costs £500 less here
8. which is quite a difference!
9. [difference of] : The winner received 2365 votes
10. and the runner-up 2348 – a difference of only 17 votes.
11. [age/price/temperature difference] : Despite this age difference
12. they fell in love.
13. There’s a world of difference between liking someone and wanting to marry them.
14. Trying to smooth out differences between them
15. [have your differences] : Joe and I have had our differences
16. but we work well together.
17. [resolve/settle your differences] : The two parties agreed to settle their differences.
18. [irreconcilable differences] : Journalists were told the talks had broken down because of irreconcilable differences.