The difference between Conflict and Difference

When used as nouns, conflict means a clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals, whereas difference means the quality of being different.

When used as verbs, conflict means to be at odds (with), whereas difference means to distinguish or differentiate.


check bellow for the other definitions of Conflict and Difference

  1. Conflict as a noun:

    A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.

    Examples:

    "The conflict between the government and the rebels began three years ago."

  2. Conflict as a noun:

    An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.

    Examples:

    "I wanted to attend the meeting but there's a conflict in my schedule that day."

  1. Conflict as a verb (intransitive):

    To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible

  2. Conflict as a verb (intransitive):

    To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

    Examples:

    "Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule."

    "It appears that our schedules conflict."

  1. Difference as a noun (uncountable):

    The quality of being different.

    Examples:

    "You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference."

    "ant identity sameness"

  2. Difference as a noun (countable):

    A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.

    Examples:

    "There are three differences between these two pictures."

  3. Difference as a noun (countable):

    A disagreement or argument.

    Examples:

    "We have our little differences, but we are firm friends."

  4. Difference as a noun (countable, uncountable):

    Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.

    Examples:

    "It just won't make much difference to me."

    "It just won't make much of a difference to anyone."

  5. Difference as a noun (countable):

    The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.

    Examples:

    "The difference between 3 and 21 is 18."

  6. Difference as a noun (obsolete):

    Choice; preference.

  7. Difference as a noun (heraldry):

    An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See and .

  8. Difference as a noun (logic):

    The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

  9. Difference as a noun (logic circuits):

    A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation (\scriptstyle A \overline B + \overline A B).

  10. Difference as a noun (relational algebra):

    the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).

  1. Difference as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To distinguish or differentiate.

    Examples:

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