distinct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɪŋkt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Forms: form: distincter
form: more distinct
form: distinctest
form: most distinct
Etymology: From Middle English distincte, from Old French, from Latin distinctus, past participle of distinguere (“to distinguish”); see distinguish.
Senses: examples: text: Her voice was distinct despite the heavy traffic.
text: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
ref: 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Capable of being perceived very clearly.
examples: text: Horses are distinct from zebras.
text: “Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant.
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!:
glosses: Different from one another (with the preferable adposition being "from").
examples: text: Olga's voice is quite distinct because of her accent.
glosses: Noticeably different from others; distinctive.
examples: text: The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: Separate in place; not conjunct or united; with from.
examples: text: Wherever thus created — for no place / Is yet distinct by name.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.
examples: text: The which [place] was dight / With divers flowres distinct with rare delight.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23:
glosses: Marked; variegated.
Synonyms: sense: capable of being perceived very clearly
word: clear
word: vivid
sense: different from one another
word: different
sense: different from one another
word: separate
sense: different from one another
word: several
sense: noticeably different
word: characteristic
sense: noticeably different
word: distinctive
sense: noticeably different
word: prominent
sense: separate in place
word: discrete
sense: separate in place
word: individual
sense: separate in place
word: noncontinuous
sense: separate in place
word: separate
sense: distinguished
word: specified
sense: marked
word: patterned
word: marked
word: acute
word: distinct
word: keen
word: obvious
word: sharp
Hypernyms: word: clear
Derived terms: contradistinct
distinctify
distinctly
distinctness
distinctor
distinctual
nondistinct
ultradistinct
undistinct
Related terms: word: distinction
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