different
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[ˈdɪf.əɹ.ənt] [ˈdɪf.ɹənt] 
US WDifferent
- Not to be confused with diffident.
- Different may refer to:
- The quality of not being the same as another thing, being distinct. See difference (disambiguation)
FR différent 
- NounPLdifferentsSUF-ent
- (mathematics) The different ideal.
- (mathematics) The different ideal.
- AdjectiveCOMmore differentSUPmost different
- Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
- At Elizabeth-Jane mentioning how greatly Lucetta had been jeopardized, he exhibited an agitation different in kind no less than in intensity from any she had seen in him before.
- Various, assorted, diverse.
- Distinct, separate; used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity.
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
- Unlike most others; unusual.
- Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Although there are traces of improv-comedy slaphappiness here and there, Langer has thought through his thesis and his different levels of reality carefully.
- Crude oil is fractionated in a refinery to produce a number of different petroleum products.
- A number of different zinc binding groups have been investigated: carboxyalkyls, thiols, hydroxamic acids, phosphonic acids and phosphonamides (23).
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Different studies point to xanthochymol and formononetin as showing activity against tumoral cells.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of different in English Dictionary
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- Adjectives
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Grammatically, this word "different" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.