Differing and Different

adjective

• Unlike in nature or quality or form or degree.
  • usage: "took different approaches to the problem"; "came to a different conclusion"; "different parts of the country"; "on different sides of the issue"; "this meeting was different from the earlier one"
• Distinctly separate from the first.
  • usage: "that's another (or different) issue altogether"
• Differing from all others; not ordinary.
  • usage: "advertising that strives continually to be different"; "this new music is certainly different but I don't really like it"
• Marked by dissimilarity.
  • usage: "for twins they are very unlike"; "people are profoundly different"
  • synonyms: unlike, dissimilar
• Distinct or separate.
  • usage: "each interviewed different members of the community"

• (a.) 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.
• (a.) Distinct; separate; not the same; other.