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Different

adjective

Unlike in nature or quality or form or degree. "Came to a different conclusion" , "Different parts of the country" , "On different sides of the issue" , "This meeting was different from the earlier one"

Distinctly separate from the first.

Differing from all others; not ordinary. "This new music is certainly different but I don't really like it"

Marked by dissimilarity. Synonyms: dissimilar, unlike. "People are profoundly different"

Distinct or separate.

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"Different" Quotes from Famous Books

... The Wheelers excavated in different parts of the haunted wing and found, in the cellar, at a depth of some eight or nine feet, the skeletons of three men and two women; whilst in the wainscoting of the passage they discovered the bones of ...

— Animal Ghosts - Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter • Elliott O'Donnell

... effigy of the Queen robed in black.(1) After the ceremony a banquet was served in accordance with Bearnese custom, the chief mourners being invited to the Duke of Vendome's table, whilst the others were served in different rooms.(2) ...

— The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre

... in March that I saw Hannah first, there at Three Gables, when she had just come back from Germany, and was homesick and missed her mother so. She did Catherine as much good as Catherine did her. They are a pair of charming children, as different as April and October. I think I will save Hannah's letter for the last. It's sure to be exciting, and Catherine's should be read in a calm spirit." Accordingly she opened Catherine's and glancing with a smile over the tabulated statement of the health of the various members ...

— The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted • Katharine Ellis Barrett

... for granted the Clergyman's recognition of the call to "rule his spirit." [Prov. xvi. 32.] The temptation not to do so is very different for different men. One man finds temper and patience sorely tried by things which do not even attract the attention of another. But very few men indeed, in the actual experiences of pastoral life, whether in town ...

— To My Younger Brethren - Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work • Handley C. G. Moule

... are," she assured him, "surely three different names are sufficient for one person? I do not use the ...

— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell

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