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DIFFERENTLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In another and different manner

Example:

there is no way out other than the fire escape

Synonyms:

differently; otherwise

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

different (distinctly separate from the first)

Credits

 Context examples: 

There was never any telling what might happen, for with live things events were somehow always happening differently.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I think differently now; time and sickness and sorrow have given me other notions; but at that period I must own I saw nothing reprehensible in what Mr Elliot was doing.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

As he had treated me at school differently from all the rest, I joyfully believed that he treated me in life unlike any other friend he had.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Now I, who am only a sailor, would look upon the situation somewhat differently.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was an odd experience and we all took it differently.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For my part, Mr. Bingley, I always keep servants that can do their own work; my daughters are brought up very differently.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But, when they tuned the scanner differently, the blood vessels disappeared, and the researchers saw that dura also contained smaller but almost equally bright spots and lines which they suspected were lymph vessels.

(NIH researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains, National Institutes of Health)

Juno’s initial observations indicate that the process seems to work differently at Jupiter than at Earth.

(First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission, NASA)

A genomic profile may be used to discover why some people get certain diseases while other people do not, or why people respond differently to the same drug.

(Genomic profile, NCI Dictionary)

Fluorescence bronchoscopy is based on the fact that normal tissue fluoresces differently than abnormal tissue when exposed to an appropriate wavelength of light and that this difference can be detected.

(Fluorescence Bronchoscopy, NCI Thesaurus)