DIFFERENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does differently mean? 

• DIFFERENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb DIFFERENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in another and different manner

  Familiarity information: DIFFERENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIFFERENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In another and different manner

Synonyms:

differently; otherwise

Context example:

there is no way out other than the fire escape

Pertainym:

different (distinctly separate from the first)

 Context examples 

Comorbid diagnoses were also found to be associated with suicide risk, but differently for each of the three groups studied.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

Besides the MJO life cycle, Taschetto notes that there are many other climate phenomena, such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole, which can together affect regional rainfall differently.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

Scientists have determined that La Crosse virus (LACV), which can cause inflammation of the brain in children, affects brain cells differently depending on their developmental stage.

(Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death, National Institutes of Health)

Three supermassive black holes merging behave differently than just a pair.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)

"One may move faster or heal from damage differently than the other — a unique attribute of living machines."

(Researchers build microscopic biohybrid robots propelled by muscles, nerves, National Science Foundation)

The other two glaciers studied are on differently shaped beds and are retreating more slowly.

(Studies Offer New Glimpse of Melting Under Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)

The researchers caution that ZIKV may behave differently when introduced to an active glioblastoma in a living person.

(Zika virus selectively infects and kills glioblastoma cells in mice, National Institutes of Health)

“These results suggest the macaque monkey may experience music and other sounds differently.

(Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch, National Institutes of Health)

"People with malaria smell differently," Lindsay told VOA, so he thought, why not see if dogs could detect tiny traces of the disease.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

Astrologers see time differently than other people—we see the past and future at once and plot them on curves.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)