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Distinct   /dɪstˈɪŋkt/   Listen
Distinct

adjective
1.
(often followed by 'from') not alike; different in nature or quality.  Synonym: distinguishable.  "The word 'nationalism' is used in at least two distinct senses" , "Gold is distinct from iron" , "A tree related to but quite distinct from the European beech" , "Management had interests quite distinct from those of their employees"
2.
Easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined.  "A distinct odor of turpentine" , "A distinct outline" , "The ship appeared as a distinct silhouette" , "Distinct fingerprints"  Antonym: indistinct.
3.
Constituting a separate entity or part.  Synonym: discrete.  "On two distinct occasions"
4.
Recognizable; marked.  Synonym: decided.  "At a distinct (or decided) disadvantage"
5.
Clearly or sharply defined to the mind.  Synonyms: clear-cut, trenchant.  "Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest" , "Trenchant distinctions between right and wrong"



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"Distinct" Quotes from Famous Books



... its very music traveling in a circle, clashed its steam-whistlings and organ-wailings against a drum-and-trombone band, while these distinct strata of sound were cut across by an outcropping of graphophones and megaphones. Upon an open-air platform, a minstrel troupe, by dint of falsetto inarticulateness, futile banjoes, and convulsive dancing, demonstrated how little of art one might obtain for a dime. Always out of sympathy with ...
— Fran • John Breckenridge Ellis

... the last chorus is among the most beautiful of his lyrics. The imagery is distinct and majestic; the prophecy, such as poets love to dwell upon, the Regeneration of Mankind—and that regeneration reflecting back splendour on the foregone time, from which it inherits so much of intellectual wealth, and memory of past virtuous deeds, as must render the possession of happiness ...
— Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley • Mary W. Shelley

... Cart-horse.) 'Old up! (The poor beast lifts his off-fore-leg with obvious reluctance, and discloses a very small supernumerary hoof concealed behind the fetlock.) Examine it! for yourselves—two distinct 'oofs with shoes and ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 103, November 26, 1892 • Various

... part, no organ, however soft and yielding, or hard and resisting, which has not this peculiarity of structure. The bones of animals, as well as their flesh and fat, are composed of tissues, and all alike made up of cells. When viewed under a microscope, each cell is seen to consist of three distinct parts, a nucleolus, or dark spot, in the center of the cell, around which lies a mass of granules, called the nucleus; and this, in turn, is surrounded with a delicate, transparent membrane, termed the envelope. Each of the granules composing the nucleus assimilates nourishment, ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... desert; non-producing, non-taxable, and a menace to stream-flow. Whether its owner has made money on the original crop has no bearing on the result, nor has his being rich or poor, resident or alien. Cutover land presents a distinct problem to him. He will and should pay a full tax on its earning power, which will be demonstrated when he successfully brings another crop to maturity. But he cannot carry an investment for fifty years or ...
— Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest • Edward Tyson Allen


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