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Distinct
Definitions
- 1 Capable of being perceived very clearly.
"Her voice was distinct despite the heavy traffic."
- 2 Different from one another (with the preferable adposition being "from").
"Horses are distinct from zebras."
- 3 Noticeably different from others; distinctive.
"Olga's voice is quite distinct because of her accent."
- 4 Separate in place; not conjunct or united; with from.
"The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct."
- 5 Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified. obsolete
"Wherever thus created — for no place / Is yet distinct by name."
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- 6 Marked; variegated. obsolete
"The which [place] was dight / With divers flowres distinct with rare delight."
- 1 clearly or sharply defined to the mind wordnet
- 2 recognizable; marked wordnet
- 3 easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined wordnet
- 4 (often followed by ‘from’) not alike; different in nature or quality wordnet
- 5 constituting a separate entity or part wordnet
- 1 To distinguish; to make a distinction. obsolete, transitive
"Here every means is made use of to do away all distincting between federal and antifederal and I suspect with no very friendly design to the federal cause."
Etymology
From Middle English distincte, past participle of distincten (“to distinguish, discern”), from Old French destincter, from Latin distinctus, past participle of distinguere (“to distinguish”); see distinguish.
From Middle English distincte, past participle of distincten (“to distinguish, discern”), from Old French destincter, from Latin distinctus, past participle of distinguere (“to distinguish”); see distinguish.
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