"different" meaning in English

See different in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /'dɪfərənt/ Audio: en-us-different.ogg [US] Forms: different [positive], more different [comparative], most different [superlative]
Etymology: differ + -ent Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|differ|ent}} differ + -ent Head templates: {{adj|more=true}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If two or more things are different, they are not like each other, not the same. The two things have two sizes, not both the same size; or they have two shapes, they don't both have one shape; or they each have a color, not just one color for both things; or they are not the like each other in some other way.
    Sense id: simple-different-en-adj-QL-6gr2n
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -ent
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