英単語

differentの意味・使い方・発音

different

英 ['dɪf(ə)r(ə)nt] 美 ['dɪfrənt]
  • adj.異なる; 個々の、特徴的な

語源


different ディファレント

differから、違う。

英語の語源


different
different: [14] English acquired different via Old French different from different-, the present participial stem of Latin differre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘apart’ and ferre ‘carry’ (related to English bear). Latin differre had two distinct strands of meaning that sprang from the original literal ‘carry apart, scatter, disperse, separate’: one was ‘put off, delay’, from which English gets defer; the other ‘become or be unlike’, whence English differ [14] and different. The derived indifferent [14] originally meant ‘not differentiating or discriminating’.
=> bear, dilatory
different (adj.)
late 14c., from Old French different (14c.), from Latin differentem (nominative differens) "differing, different," present participle of differre "to set apart" (see differ). Colloquial sense of "special" attested by 1912. Related: Differently.

例文


1. Things might have been different if I 'd talked a bit more.
もっと話していたら、結果は違っていたかもしれません。

2.Since the birds interbreed they cannot be classed as different species.
これらの鳥は交雑繁殖を行うため、異なる種に分類することはできない。

3.These expressions are often used interchangeably,but they do have different meanings.
これらの表現はしばしば相互に置き換えて使用されるが、それらの意味は異なる。

4.They found their computers producing different results from exactly the same calculation.
彼らは彼らのコンピュータが全く同じ計算を行うと異なる結果が得られることを発見した。

5.We felt we were living life on several different planes.
私たちはみんなの生活の精神的なレベルがそれぞれ違うと感じています。

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