Associations to the word «Diff»

Wiktionary

DIFF, noun. (slang) Abbreviation of difference.
DIFF, noun. (computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
DIFF, noun. (computing) The output of a diff program. A diff file.
DIFF, noun. (medicine) Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
DIFF, noun. (slang) Abbreviation of difficult.
DIFF, noun. (rock climbing) A difficult route.
DIFF, verb. (transitive) (computing) 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.
DIFF, verb. (transitive) (computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
DIFF, proper noun. (computing) 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.
DIFF FILE, noun. (computing) A file produced by a diff program.
DIFF FILE, noun. (computing) A file describing changes made to a computer file or files.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats