different between different vs composite

English

Etymology

From Middle English different, from Old French different, from Latin differ?ns, present active participle of differ? (“I differ”); see differ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?f.(?)?.?nt/
• Hyphenation: dif?fer?ent, diffe?rent

Adjective

different (comparative more different, superlative most different)

1. Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
   • 1915, Edward Knobel, Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars – A Revision of the Almagest, page 14 (showing that "to" was used by an Englishman in 1915)

     One interesting feature was remarked by Dr. Peters, viz.: that the instrument used for the longitudes of the original catalogue was graduated differently to that used for the latitudes.

   • 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 6

     Enter the American tourist. He thinks of himself as a good guy but when he looks in the mirror to shave this good guy he has to admit that "well, other people are different from me and I don't really like them." This makes him feel guilty toward other people.
2. Various, assorted, diverse.
   • 2006, Delbert S. Elliott et al., Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context,^[1] Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 19:

     In any case, poor black respondents living in high-poverty neighborhoods are most likely to view their neighborhood as a single block or block group and to use this definition consistently when asked about different neighborhood characteristics and activities.

3. Distinct, separate; used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity.

4. Unlike most others; unusual.

Usage notes

• (not the same): Depending on dialect, time period, and register, the adjective different (“not the same”) may be construed with one of the prepositions from, to, and than, or with the subordinating conjunction than.

  Pleasure is different from/than/to happiness.

  It's different than (or from what) I expected.

  Of these, from is more common in formal registers than in informal ones, and more common in the US than elsewhere; than is more common in the US than elsewhere; and to is more common in the UK, in Australia, and in New Zealand than in the US. Style guides often advocate different from, by analogy with differ from rather than *differ than or *differ to, and proscribe different than and different to.

Synonyms

• (not the same): other; See also Thesaurus:different
• (various): sundry; See also Thesaurus:assorted
• (distinct): apart, distinct; See also Thesaurus:separate
• (unlike most others): aberrant, deviant, nonstandard; See also Thesaurus:strange

Antonyms

• (not the same): alike, identical, same, similar
• (various): homogeneous
• (distinct): coherent, indistinct, unified
• (unlike most others): normal, usual; See also Thesaurus:normal
• (all senses): undifferent

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

different (plural differents)

1. (mathematics) The different ideal.

Adverb

different (comparative more different, superlative most different)

1. Differently.

Further reading

• different in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• different in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

German

Etymology

From Latin differ?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?f????nt]
• Hyphenation: dif?fe?rent

Adjective

different (comparative differenter, superlative am differentesten)

1. different

Declension

Further reading

• “different” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

different

1. third-person plural future active indicative of differ?

Middle English

Alternative forms

• dyfferent

Etymology

From Old French different, from Latin differ?ns, present active participle of differ?; equivalent to differren (“to postpone”) +? -ent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dif?r?nt/, /di?f?r?nt/

Adjective

different (plural and weak singular differente)

1. different

Related terms

• differently

Descendants

• English: different
• Scots: different

References

• “different, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-31.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French composite, from Latin compositus, past participle of comp?n? (“put together”). Doublet of compost.

Pronunciation

• (Canada, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?mp?z?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?m?p?z?t/
• Rhymes: -?z?t

Adjective

composite (comparative more composite, superlative most composite)

1. Made up of multiple components; compound or complex.
2. (architecture) Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles.
3. (mathematics) Having factors other than itself and one; not prime and not one.
4. (botany) Belonging to the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets.
5. (photography, historical) Employing multiple exposures on a single plate, so as to create an average view of something, such as faces in physiognomy.

   composite portraiture; a composite photograph

Derived terms

• composite bow
• composite sketch
• composite sync

Translations

Noun

composite (plural composites)

1. A mixture of different components.
2. A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.
3. (botany) A plant belonging to the family Asteraceae, syn. Compositae.
4. (mathematics) A function of a function.
5. (mathematics) Clipping of composite number.
6. (chiefly law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, etc. that combines several separate pictures or images.
7. (rail transport, Britain) A railway carriage with compartments for two different classes of travel; see Composite Corridor.

Derived terms

• DYC

Translations

See also

• aggregate
• conglomerate

Verb

composite (third-person singular simple present composites, present participle compositing, simple past and past participle composited)

1. To make a composite.

   I composited an image using computer software.

Translations

Related terms

French

Etymology

From Middle French, borrowed from Latin compositus. Doublet of compote and compost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.po.zit/

Noun

composite m (plural composites)

1. composite material

Adjective

composite (plural composites)

1. composite

Further reading

• “composite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

composite

1. feminine plural of composito

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kom?po.si.te/, [k?m?p?s??t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom?po.si.te/, [k?m?p??s?it??]

Adjective

composite

1. vocative masculine singular of compositus

References

• composite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• composite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• composite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette