Anagrams of: DRIFTFISH

• a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon

• position five in a countable series of things

• one part in five equal parts

• the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it

• coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position

• the act of being shriven

• a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)

• English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)

• 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.

• An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary.

• Peace; security.

• Sanctuary, asylum.

• A forest or wood; woodland generally.

• Land with mostly undergrowth and few trees; also, land in between forests or woods; pastureland which is not in use.

• Brushwood or undergrowth, sometimes in the form of a hedge.

• A hedge, especially one made from brushwood which has been wattled; also, a movable frame made from wattled branches, a hurdle.

• A kind of weir made from wattled branches for catching fish.

• an event in which something is displaced without rotation

• a qualitative change

• the time period during which you are at work

• the act of changing one thing or position for another

• the act of moving from one place to another

• (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

• a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time

• the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters

• a woman's sleeveless undergarment

• a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist

• make a shift in or exchange of

• change place or direction

• move around

• move very slightly

• move from one setting or context to another

• change in quality

• move and exchange for another

• move sideways or in an unsteady way

• move abruptly

• use a shift key on a keyboard

• change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change

• change gears

• lay aside, abandon, or leave for another

• having a strong physiological or chemical effect

• an ordinary man

• the dead body of a human being

• to a great degree

• in a stiff manner

• not moving or operating freely

• strong, vigorous

• rigidly formal

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• incapable of or resistant to bending

• very drunk

• 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 long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)

• English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)