单词 | differencing |
释义 | differencingn. The action of difference v. (in various senses); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [noun] > action of distinctiona1340 division?c1425 decerninga1535 dignotion1578 differencing1598 discern1599 discernment1615 discrimination1621 refinement1712 differentiation1872 distinguishing1882 differentiating1887 1598 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades To Rdr. sig. A4v The differencing of men in excellencie must be directed onelie by their proportions of true knowledge. 1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) i. i. 5 Names were instituted for differencing of each person from other seuerally. 1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence iii. 49 Writers of Civill Dissentions are sometimes necessitated for differencing of Parties, to use those Tearmes they do not approve. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Character Avoiding the confusion arising from the multiplication of dots in the differencing of differentials. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (new ed.) III. 252 The..mechanism of the understanding, the whole purport and functions of which consist in individualization, in outlines and differencings by quantity, quality, and relation. 1854 M. Evans tr. L. Feuerbach Essence Christianity i. ii. 32 This differencing of God and man, with which religion begins, is a differencing of man with his own nature. 1930 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 21 July 32/5 The differencing of the vowel and consonantal sounds is so recent as to be later than the invention of printing. 1977 O. Neubecker Heraldry Sources, Symbols & Meaning 97 The differencing of a prince's arms extends to the supporters on whose shoulders the label appears. 2013 C. W. Chase Demand-driven Forecasting (ed. 2) vii. 209 The new data series created by differencing is substituted for the original data set. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). differencingadj. Now rare. That constitutes a difference; that distinguishes or differentiates; discriminating. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > differentiating or distinctive discretive?1490 differencing1603 differential1615 specificative1641 discriminating1642 discriminative1646 specializing1701 differentiating1794 diacritical1857 1603 H. Clapham Three Partes Salomon Song of Songs Expounded iii. xxiii. 231 The second differencing garment is the Æphod (an indument vpon the other). 1657 R. Baxter Acct. Present Thoughts 5 Augustine who rose up against Pelagius..in defence of differencing free grace. 1718 A. Nisbet Ess. Armories ii. 28 Of these differencing Marks, added by Cadets to their principal or paternal arms, I have some Years ago treated. 1759 J. Tunstall Academica 83 To take away from things their differencing qualities..is not only impracticable in itself, but would destroy the very virtue, which it means to establish. 1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 57 398 The differencing conditions which qualify the rule. 1888 Ohio Educ. Monthly July 291 The differencing feature of the schools is instruction in the Latin language. 1909 W. M. Hart in Haverford Ess. 220 Chaucer seems to have regarded restraint..as a differencing characteristic of the other class. 2007 T. Shefer et al. From Boys to Men 116 There are in fact two ‘differencing’ points that generate the greatest discussions. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [adverb] discerningly1624 discriminativelya1638 differencinglya1640 distinguishingly1649 discriminately1706 discriminatingly1802 the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adverb] > distinctly or marking the difference between distinctlya1382 in sunderc1450 differencinglya1640 differentially1644 distinguishedly1680 distinguishably1704 sheerly1866 distinctively1871 a1640 W. Fenner Christs Alarm (1646) 30 To preach differencingly, to distinguish between the pretious and the vile. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598adj.1603 |
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