distinct

[Dis*tinct·]

When something is distinct, it is easily identifiable or set apart from others of its kind. An eighth grader who is six feet tall has a distinct advantage over the other kids on the basketball court.

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Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.

Adjective S.
clearly or sharply defined to the mind; "clear-cut evidence of tampering"; "Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest"; "trenchant distinctions between right and wrong"

Adjective S.
recognizable; marked; "noticed a distinct improvement"; "at a distinct (or decided) disadvantage"

Adjective
easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined; "a distinct flavor"; "a distinct odor of turpentine"; "a distinct outline"; "the ship appeared as a distinct silhouette"; "distinct fingerprints"

Adjective S.
(often followed by `from'') not alike; different in nature or quality; "plants of several distinct types"; "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 Euro

Adjective S.
constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions"

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a.
Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.

a.
Marked; variegated.

a.
Separate in place; not conjunct; not united by growth or otherwise; -- with from.

a.
Not identical; different; individual.

a.
So separated as not to be confounded with any other thing; not liable to be misunderstood; not confused; well-defined; clear; as, we have a distinct or indistinct view of a prospect.

v. t.
To distinguish.


Distinct

Dis*tinct" , a. [L. distinctus, p. p. of distinguere: cf. F. distinct. See Distinguish.] 1. Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified. [Obs.]
Wherever thus created -- for no place Is yet distinct by name.
2. Marked; variegated. [Obs.]
The which [place] was dight With divers flowers distinct with rare delight.
3. Separate in place; not conjunct; not united by growth or otherwise; -- with from.
The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct.
4. Not identical; different; individual.
To offend, and judge, are distinct offices.
5. So separated as not to be confounded with any other thing; not liable to be misunderstood; not confused; well-defined; clear; as, we have a distinct or indistinct view of a prospect.
Relation more particular and distinct.
Syn. -- Separate; unconnected; disjoined; different; clear; plain; conspicuous; obvious.

Distinct

Dis*tinct" , v. t. To distinguish. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.

To distinguish.

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Usage Examples

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that's usually working in Asian food.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare and remnants of the pro-business moderates.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

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Other Usage Examples

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

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