-fer, -ferous

1. Submission or courteous yielding to the opinion, wishes, complaisance, or judgment of another.
2. Courteous respect; polite respect, especially putting another person's interests first.
3. A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another.

Showing or expressing polite respect or courtesy.

1. Respectfully and with esteem due a superior or an elder.
2. Affected or ingratiating regard for another's wishes in a servile manner.

1. The act of putting off, or an instance of delaying, until a future time.
2. Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.

1. Postponed or delayed.
2. Withheld, or suspended or withheld, until a future date.
3. Classified as temporarily exempt from induction into military service.

1. Putting off (action, consideration, etc.) to a future time: "The decision has been deferred by the president of the company until next week."
2. To exempt temporarily from induction into military service.

1. To be not the same; to be unlike.
2. To have or express a different opinion; to disagree.
3. Etymology: from Latin differre, "to set apart".

1. Being different, or "not alike, not like, unlike".
2. The amount by which one quantity is different from another; what is left after subtracting one number from another number.
3. A condition in which there is a different opinion; a disagreement.
4. To have an effect or influence; to be important; to matter.

A difference of opinion suggests that certain opinions are "carried in different directions".

The quality or condition that distinguishes one species from all the others of the same genus or class.