Anagrams of: _ADFIV

• an Islamic judge

• informal terms for a difficult situation

• something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug

• the act of putting something in working order again

• an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear

• a determination of the place where something is

• restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

• cause to be firmly attached

• decide upon or fix definitely

• prepare for eating by applying heat

• take vengeance on or get even

• set or place definitely

• kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study

• make fixed, stable or stationary

• make infertile

• influence an event or its outcome by illegal means

• put (something somewhere) firmly

• make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

• to be about to do something

• duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio

• send something via a facsimile machine

• an edge tool used to cut and shape wood

• the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health

• English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)

• Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.

• The output of a diff program. A diff file.

• A difficult route.

• The quality of being different.

• A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.

• A disagreement or argument.

• Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.

• The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.

• Choice; preference.

• An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.

• The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

• (logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation (\scriptstyle A \overline B + \overline A B).

• (relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).

• The differential gear in an automobile etc

• A qualitative or quantitative difference between similar or comparable things

• An infinitesimal change in a variable, or the result of differentiation

• One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other.

• A form of conductor used for dividing and distributing the current to a series of electric lamps so as to maintain equal action in all.

• To run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file.

• To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.

• A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.

• A fool; an idiot; a blockhead.

• A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales.

• A brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.

• A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East.

• To be foolish; make sport; play; toy.

• To daunt.

• To toss (aside); to dismiss.

• To turn (someone) aside; divert.