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How to pronounce difference
Say it like this: /ˈdɪf.(ə.)ɹəns/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does difference mean?
nounThe quality of being different.
“You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.”
A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
“There are three differences between these two pictures.”
A disagreement or argument.
“We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.”
verbTo distinguish or differentiate.
“This simple spectation of the lungs is differenced from that which concomitates a pleurisy.”
to modify a heraldic emblem so as to distinguish one branch of a house from another
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