Different vs. Deferent: What's the Difference?

Unlike in form, quality, amount, or nature; dissimilar

Showing deference; deferential.

Distinct or separate

(Anatomy) Carrying down or away. Used of a duct or vessel.

Various or assorted

Serving or adapted to carry or transport.

Differing from all others; unusual

Showing deference; deferential.

In a different way or manner; otherwise

(obsolete) Serving to carry; bearing.

Not the same; exhibiting a difference.

(anatomy) A deferent duct in the body, as opposed to an afferent one.

Various, assorted, diverse.

(obsolete) That which carries or conveys.

Distinct, separate; used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity.

An imaginary circle surrounding the Earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the centre of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.

Unlike most others; unusual.

Serving to carry; bearing.

(mathematics) The different ideal.

That which carries or conveys.

Differently.

An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.

Distinct; separate; not the same; other.

Showing deference

Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different shapes; different degrees of excellence.

Unlike in nature or quality or form or degree;

Distinctly separate from the first;

Differing from all others; not ordinary;

Not like; marked by dissimilarity;

Distinct or separate;