difference vs no

difference

noun
  • A disagreement or argument. 

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

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

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

  • The quality of being different. 

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

  • The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B). 

  • Significant change in or effect on a situation or state. 

  • A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB). 

no

noun
  • a negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval 

  • a vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition 

adv
  • Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives. 

  • not 

  • Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives. 

intj
  • vehement rejection of truthfulness 

  • disgust 

  • mild disapproval 

det
  • Not any. 

  • Hardly any. 

  • Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully. 

  • Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something). 

prep
  • not, does not, do not, etc. 

  • without 

  • like 

particle
  • Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition. 

  • Used together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement. 

  • Used to show agreement with a negative question. 

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