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We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a discrepancy between what we are doing or putting our bodies through and then what our minds are telling us, you really have to look at yourself, and the most essential part of it is the pleasure aspect.
David Belle

Meaning of "discrepancy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DISCREPANCY

discrepancy  [dɪˈskrɛpənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISCREPANCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Discrepancy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DISCREPANCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of discrepancy in the English dictionary

The definition of discrepancy in the dictionary is a conflict or variation, as between facts, figures, or claims.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISCREPANCY


agency
ˈeɪdʒənsɪ
consistency
kənˈsɪstənsɪ
consultancy
kənˈsʌltənsɪ
currency
ˈkʌrənsɪ
deficiency
dɪˈfɪʃənsɪ
dependency
dɪˈpɛndənsɪ
efficiency
ɪˈfɪʃənsɪ
emergency
ɪˈmɜːdʒənsɪ
flippancy
ˈflɪpənsɪ
frequency
ˈfriːkwənsɪ
occupancy
ˈɒkjʊpənsɪ
potency
ˈpəʊtənsɪ
pregnancy
ˈprɛɡnənsɪ
preoccupancy
priːˈɒkjʊpənsɪ
rampancy
ˈræmpənsɪ
regency
ˈriːdʒənsɪ
residency
ˈrɛzɪdənsɪ
tendency
ˈtɛndənsɪ
transparency
trænsˈpærənsɪ
vacancy
ˈveɪkənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISCREPANCY

discredit
discreditable
discreditably
discredited
discreet
discreetly
discreetness
discrepance
discrepancies
discrepant
discrepantly
discrete
discretely
discreteness
discretion
discretional
discretionally
discretionarily
discretionary
discretionary income

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISCREPANCY

accountancy
buoyancy
Clancy
compliancy
conservancy
constancy
expectancy
fancy
infancy
job vacancy
life expectancy
malignancy
management consultancy
nancy
Puy de Sancy
redundancy
relevancy
tenancy
the fancy
vibrancy

Synonyms and antonyms of discrepancy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DISCREPANCY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «discrepancy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of discrepancy

Translation of «discrepancy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DISCREPANCY

Find out the translation of discrepancy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of discrepancy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «discrepancy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

差异
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

discrepancia
570 millions of speakers

English

discrepancy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विसंगति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التناقض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

несоответствие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

discrepância
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অমিল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

divergence
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Percanggahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Diskrepanz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

食い違い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

괴리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bedane
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự khác biệt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முரண்பாடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विसंगती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tutarsızlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

discrepanza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozbieżność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

невідповідність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

discrepanță
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απόκλιση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verskil
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avvikelse
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uoverensstemmelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of discrepancy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISCREPANCY»

The term «discrepancy» is very widely used and occupies the 23.186 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DISCREPANCY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about discrepancy

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8 QUOTES WITH «DISCREPANCY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word discrepancy.
1
David Belle
We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a discrepancy between what we are doing or putting our bodies through and then what our minds are telling us, you really have to look at yourself, and the most essential part of it is the pleasure aspect.
2
Charles Horton Cooley
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
3
Corey Feldman
My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.
4
John Frame
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
5
Richard Grant
You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.
6
Madeleine M. Kunin
A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
7
Jake Lacy
There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.
8
Roy Moore
No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISCREPANCY»

Discover the use of discrepancy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to discrepancy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Discrepancy Method: Randomness and Complexity
Explores the link between discrepancy theory and randomized algorithms.
Bernard Chazelle, 2000
2
Geometric Discrepancy: An Illustrated Guide
What is the "most uniform" way of distributing n points in the unit square? How big is the "irregularity" necessarily present in any such distribution? Such questions are treated in geometric discrepancy theory.
Jiří Matoušek, 1999
3
Digital Nets and Sequences: Discrepancy Theory and ...
Besides the classical theory, the book contains chapters on reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and weighted integration, duality theory for digital nets, polynomial lattice rules, the newest constructions by Niederreiter and Xing and many ...
Josef Dick, Friedrich Pillichshammer, 2010
4
Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy Between ...
In Unchecked and Unbalanced, Arnold Kling provides a blueprint for those who are skeptical of political and financial elitism.
Arnold S. Kling, 2010
5
Jewish History in Conflict: A Study of the Major Discrepancy ...
This unified collection and categorization of the many responses will enable students and scholars to have easy access to what has been written by Jewish scholars and rabbinic authorities about the discrepancy and will facilitate scholarly ...
Mitchell First, 1997
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Discrepancy of Signed Measures and Polynomial Approximation
In many situations in approximation theory the distribution of points in a given set is of interest.
Vladimir V. Andrievskii, Hans-Peter Blatt, 2002
7
The Moderating Effect of Self-discrepancy on Self-focused ...
As predicted, the actual-ideal self proximity was shown to be a significant moderator of the effect of self-focused attention on mood such that individuals who had closer proximity between their actual-ideal selves showed less of a shift ...
Raeda S. Joudy, 2007
8
Performance Discrepancy Between Team Members and Motivation Gain
This paper proposes and tests a model that describes how the amount of performance discrepancy between team members influences their motivation to work harder in their teams, compared to when they work alone.
Victoria M. Harmon, 2008
9
School Psychologists' Acceptability of the IQ-Achievement ...
The purpose of this study was to examine school psychologists' ratings of acceptability for the IQ-A discrepancy model and the RTI model as part of the identification process for students with learning disabilities.
Patrick S. O'Donnell, 2007
10
Results on Low Discrepancy Point Sets
This thesis includes work on the discrepancy of certain low discrepancy point sets in the hypercube [0, 1)s.
Matthew Darnall, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISCREPANCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term discrepancy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Museum backtracks on math 'error' caught by teen | Boston Herald
BOSTON — Boston's Museum of Science now says a discrepancy in the golden ratio spotted by a 15-year-old high school student from Virginia ... «Boston Herald, Jul 15»
2
FIFA must do more to develop women's game globally - ESPN.com
When asked about the discrepancy, FIFA defends paying the women's winners less by telling you that FIFA makes a lot more money off the ... «ESPN, Jul 15»
3
Does It Matter That 95 Percent Of Elected Prosecutors Are White …
The discrepancy in race, according to Paul Butler — a law professor at Georgetown, a former federal prosecutor and author of Let's Get Free: A ... «88.9 KETR, Jul 15»
4
'There's quite a discrepancy just in education'
As the state House and Senate prepare for long budget discussions ahead, school systems like ABSS are placing some plans for the fall on ... «Burlington Times News, Jul 15»
5
Illinois Appellate Court affirms foreclosure despite discrepancy in …
The Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District, recently affirmed a grant of summary judgment of foreclosure in favor of a mortgagee in spite of an ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
6
Exclusive: Millions in unsecured loans for Air Malta to fund fuel …
This newsroom is informed that Air Malta had to turn to BOV to help it fund the discrepancy via 'quick loans' but, given its ailing financial ... «Malta Independent Online, Jul 15»
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Fluoroscopy may help decrease limb-length discrepancy but does …
The surgeons' goal was to equalize the limb length discrepancy, with an anteversion target range of 15° to 35° between the two operating ... «Healio, Jul 15»
8
Viewability Shines A Light On The Publisher Discrepancy Tax
Once the discrepancy climbs higher, the advertiser's ad server acts as the metric of record, which puts the publisher at a disadvantage. «MediaPost Communications, Jun 15»
9
Researchers solve Saturn's age gap discrepancy
The unexplained heat has caused a two-billion-year discrepancy for computer models estimating Saturn's age. Models that correctly predict ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jun 15»
10
State Dept.: Discrepancy in Hillary Clinton Emails
The State Department says a discrepancy has arisen between the number of work-related emails obtained from Hillary Clinton's server and ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»

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