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dif

dif is the alternative form of diff.

Meaning of diff

Noun

diff (countable and uncountable, plural diffs)

  1. (slang) 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.
    • tank diff (i.e., the deciding factor in the game was the difference in skill between the teams' tank players)
  2. Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
  3. The output of a diff program, a diff file.
    • edit diff
  4. A difficult route.

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Proper noun capitalized: DIF

DIF

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Data Interchange Format.
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Distrito Federal: a federal district of Mexico.

Forms of dif

pluraldifs

Words that rhyme with dif

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Questions about dif

What is dif the alternative form of?
Dif is the alternative form of diff.
What part of speech is dif?
Dif is a proper noun.

Words near dif in the dictionary

  1. Diez
  2. Diezes
  3. diezeugmena
  4. diezeugmenon
  5. Diezmo
  6. dif
  7. DiFalco
  8. DiFalcos
  9. difamilast
  10. Difazio
  11. Difazios

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dif (page history and authors); DIF (page history and authors); diff (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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