Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Different

(i) Unlike in nature, quality, form or degree; A is different from/to B: ‘Alex was different from all the other boys she knew.’ ‘This meeting was different from the earlier one.’ (ii) Marked by dissimilarity: ‘People are profoundly different.’

Different than is used in American English but is rarely used in British English.

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