different kind

collocation in English

meaningsofdifferentandkind

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different
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪf.ər.ənt/
us
/ˈdɪf.ɚ.ənt/
not ...
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kind
noun[C]
uk
/kaɪnd/
us
/kaɪnd/
a group with similar characteristics, or a ...
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(Definition ofdifferentandkindfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdifferent kind

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Contrast the requirements of morality (or, to take adifferentkindof example, of a particular club).
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His research is of adifferentkind.
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Ironically, adifferentkindof sexuality emerged from that.
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They have the experience, wisdom and skills to manage adifferentkindof employment relationship.
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Adifferentkindof starting point may lead to an even more interesting view of language and its role in human thought.
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Adifferentkindof explanation may also be relevant.
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But yes, this was adifferentkind, and it seemed that people actually cared that science policy get made based on the best information.
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This again is adifferentkindof analysis using different data.
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Figure 2 represents adifferentkindof linear development.
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Even if we accept these views, disagreements about feasibility involve disagreements about a verydifferentkindof fact.
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But, unless they result in the telling of adifferentkindof story, the results are no more than cosmetic.
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It constitutes on my own part (both as a child and now as an adult) adifferentkindof quest and speculation.
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Telling a story based on a series of pictures is a verydifferentkindof task.
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Adifferentkindof appeal to conceptual truth is possible.
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Less ideologically charged than affirmative and creative, this poetic resistance enabled adifferentkindof dialogue.
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To investigate the ' policing of families ' at grassroots level adifferentkindof source is required.
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These labelling patterns support the assumption that the representational items are a qualitativelydifferentkindof item.
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It does, however, generate adifferentkindof emotional experience.
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In order to study the effect of nozzles on different gas density configurations,differentkindof brass nozzles in shape and size are machined.
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From the point of view of instrumental use, it favours adifferentkindof texture.
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