What's the difference between beg and differ?

Beg


Definition:

  • (n.) A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
  • (v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
  • (v. t.) To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
  • (v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.
  • (v. t.) To take for granted; to assume without proof.
  • (v. t.) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
  • (v. i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I had to beg to stay in the apartment I was living in at the time for another night.
  • (2) She said: “Begging can cause considerable concern to residents, workers and visitors, particularly those who feel intimidated by this activity.” In Merseyside, Ch Insp Mark Morgan insisted his force did not prosecute vulnerable people unless they were aggressive, repeat offenders who had failed to engage in offers of support.
  • (3) The other day I had to BEG a meeting with [BBC1 controller] Jay Hunt, just so I could explain what we're spending all her money on in Doctor Who.
  • (4) x head "We have the begging bowl out to Europe in the hope of stabilising our economy.
  • (5) This begs the question of whether racism informed the way he was treated.
  • (6) The weakest free schools have ineffective leadership ... with little challenge to tackle poor performance.” The report said that the best leaders “understand inspection”, begging the question of whether schools are expected to lead for Ofsted?
  • (7) Since this dedicated unit was disbanded there has been a significant increase in the numbers of people who are begging, she told the council earlier this year.
  • (8) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
  • (9) Any Championship managers watching this will most definitely not be looking forward to next season’s meetings with Newcastle, which rather begs the question: how on earth did it come this?
  • (10) I begged them to take me to the toilet when we stopped but they refused.
  • (11) Two of them begged for a rescue mission in phone calls yesterday, as the battles raged through a powerful sandstorm that shrouded the city from journalists and anxious refugees who have been watching the fighting from the safety of Turkish soil, just a few hundred feet away.
  • (12) She said that although Unicef was doing all it could to protect Syrian children and to help them continue their education, it was a difficult task: some have taken to begging or working in fields or factories to help supplement their families' income, and many girls are getting married earlier without finishing their schooling.
  • (13) Trump responded by recalling Romney “begging” for his endorsement four years before.
  • (14) I had seen him begging in the city centre a few times and had slipped him a few bob from time to time.
  • (15) Some say they were trying to reach Algeria to beg on city streets, others that Europe was their destination.
  • (16) However this begs the question, if Spotify are not the enemy, who is?
  • (17) Then go beg the lady with the clipboard, while others swan past to join the cocktail-swilling vacationers swathed in white linen on the porch.
  • (18) However, providers, physicians and hospitals are begging for relief from the burden of uncompensated care.
  • (19) Instead, I made my way to Satis to beg Miss Havisham to secretly confer several thousand pounds on Herbert.
  • (20) It begs the question – were the comments he made after the Hillsborough panel report sincere or just sound bites?"

Differ


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.
  • (v. i.) To be of unlike or opposite opinion; to disagree in sentiment; -- often with from or with.
  • (v. i.) To have a difference, cause of variance, or quarrel; to dispute; to contend.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be different or unlike; to set at variance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
  • (2) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
  • (3) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (4) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
  • (5) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
  • (6) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
  • (7) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (8) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
  • (9) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
  • (10) The outward currents are sensitive to TEA and their reversal potentials differ.
  • (11) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
  • (12) This difference was not due to ATPase activity in the assay.
  • (13) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
  • (14) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
  • (15) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
  • (16) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
  • (17) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
  • (18) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (19) Snooker, which became and remains a fixture in the BBC2 schedules, was chosen for showing because it is the sport in which different shades are most significant.
  • (20) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?

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