different between wike vs diff

English

Etymology

From Old English wic. See wick (“village”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Noun

wike (plural wikes)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A home; a dwelling.
2. A temporary mark or boundary, such as a tree bough set up in marking out or dividing anything, such as tithes, swaths to be mowed in shared ground, etc.

Anagrams

• Weik

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wicce.

Adjective

wike

1. Alternative form of wikke

Etymology 2

From Old English wicu.

Noun

wike

1. Alternative form of weke (“week”)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian wike, from Proto-West Germanic *wik?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vik?/

Noun

wike c (plural wiken, diminutive wykje)

1. week

Further reading

• “wike (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Noun

diff (plural diffs)

1. (slang) Abbreviation of difference.

   A peach and an apricot? What's the diff?

2. (computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
3. (computing) The output of a diff program. A diff file.
   • 2004, Paul Graham, Great Hackers, Essay:

     I didn't want to waste people's time telling them things they already knew. It's more efficient just to give them the diffs.

4. (medicine) Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
5. (rock climbing) A difficult route.

Verb

diff (third-person singular simple present diffs, present participle diffing, simple past and past participle diffed)

1. (transitive, computing) To run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file.
2. (transitive, computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.

Proper noun

diff

1. (computing) A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.

Related terms

• (computing) diff file

See also

• (computing) patch