diff

Plural: diffs

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 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.

Examples

• A peach and an apricot? What's the diff?
• CBC with diff
• edit diff
• tank diff (i.e., the deciding factor in the game was the difference in skill between the teams' tank players)
• This diff is capable of locking up when wheel slip occurs.
• This function takes that diff and plugs it into the larger structure.

Related Words

delta, patch

Anagrams of diff