(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
The ~ between two things is the way in which they are unlike each other.
That is the fundamental ~ between the two societies...
...the vast ~ in size...
N-COUNT: usu N prep
2.
A ~ between two quantities is the amount by which one quantity is less than the other.
The ~ is 8532.
N-SING
3.
If people have their ~s about something, they disagree about it.
The two communities are learning how to resolve their ~s.
N-COUNT: usu pl, oft poss N
4.
If something makes a ~ or makes a lot of ~, it affects you and helps you in what you are doing. If something makes no ~, it does not have any effect on what you are doing.
Where you live can make such a ~ to the way you feel...
His retirement won’t make any ~ to the way we conduct our affairs.
PHRASE: V inflects
5.
If you split the ~ with someone, you agree on an amount or price which is halfway between two suggested amounts or prices.
Shall we split the ~ and say $7,500?
PHRASE: V inflects
6.
If you describe a job or holiday, for example, as a job with a ~ or a holiday with a ~, you mean that the job or holiday is very interesting and unusual. (INFORMAL)
For a beach resort with a ~, try Key West.
PHRASE: n PHR
7.
If there is a ~ of opinion between two or more people or groups, they disagree about something.
Was there a ~ of opinion over what to do with the Nobel Prize money?
PHRASE: ~ inflects