# differing

Pronunciation: say "DIF-er-ing" /ˈdɪfəɹɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of differ. — present participle and gerund of differ
   - Simple: The -ing form of differ. Use it to name the state or describe a noun, but rarely after is or are.
   - _The two reports, differing on only a few details, reached the same conclusion._
   - _Differing sharply on the budget, the council postponed the vote._

## Adjective

2. Not the same as one another; unlike, dissimilar, and distinct.
   - Simple: Not the same as one another, and clearly different.
   - _The committee struggled to reconcile their differing accounts of the incident._
   - _Two differing schools of thought emerged among the researchers._

## Noun

3. The fact or state of being unlike; a difference.
   - Simple: The fact that two things are not the same: the difference between them.
   - _The differing between the original and the copy was hard to spot._
   - _Even a slight differing in temperature can change the result._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/differing (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).