diff
Meanings
noun
- Clipping of difference
- Clipping of differential
- Used to trash-talk an opposing team at the end of a game by pointing out a skill difference between some role and the same role on the other team.
- Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
- The output of a diff program, a diff file.
- Abbreviation of differential: the differential gear in an automobile.
- Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
- A difficult route.
- Clipping of difficulty.
verb
- To run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file.
- To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
- To win (or to be able to win) a fight against another, with a defined level of difficulty. Usually used when power scaling fictional characters.
adj
- Abbreviation of different.
name
- A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
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