Anagrams of: DIFFRACT

• the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time

• buying and selling; especially illicit trade

• the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time

• social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')

• deal illegally

• trade or deal a commodity

• a government tax on imports or exports

• charge a tariff

• informal British term for a cafe

• the residue of malt and grain which remains in the mash-kettle after the mashing and lautering process.

• 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.

• the skilled practice of a practical occupation

• a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space

• people who perform a particular kind of skilled work

• skill in an occupation or trade

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• make by hand and with much skill

• a quarrel about petty points