Synonym: clear, clear-cut, definite, different, dissimilar, diverse, exact, obvious, plain, precise, separate, unmistakable. Antonym: indistinct. Similar words: distinction, distinctive, distinguish, instinct, existing, assist in, consist in, distant. Meaning: [dɪ'stɪŋkt] adj. 1. easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined 2. (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality 3. constituting a separate entity or part 4. recognizable; marked 5. clearly or sharply defined to the mind.
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181. This model in figure 13.8 suggests that being young affects attitudes towards breaking the law in two distinct ways.
182. Is the notion of a distinct foreign policy arena as obsolete as it is ambiguous?
183. That is. factors which cause supply to shift are distinct from factors which shift the demand curve.
184. Representing a distinct, highly opinionated voting bloc, his was a political voice that could not be ignored.
185. Far from reflecting continuously varying values, digital information is based on just two distinct states.
186. The two distinct categories are muddled in a manner that is difficult to separate analytically.
187. Dandelions are divided into thousands of distinct kinds,(Sentencedict.com) fitted to where they live and blended into an almost continuous series.
188. Quite distinct phenotypic modifications were elicited from the clone by the different ryegrass strains.
189. There seems to be a distinct lack of aggression or passion.
190. In fact, the lines of demarcation between the two camps were much less distinct.
191. Similarly, the ideology of socialism in its Marxist-Leninist form is quite distinct from its democratic socialist form.
192. This humanistic attention to the subjective interpretation by prisoners of their situation marks a distinct departure from the orthodox account.
193. They also enjoyed a distinct autonomy from the Lords, the King, and the Ministers of the Crown.
194. The book is divided into two distinct parts, one describing analysis of aqueous samples and the other analysis of solid matrices.
195. The mammoth was related to, but distinct from, modern elephants.
196. An analogy with the film industry, or treatment as an entirely distinct medium requiring its own organization[sentencedict.com], was inappropriate.
197. Hardest to predict is whether an eventual movement for reform will adopt a distinct and more hopeful political and economic orientation.
198. 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. William Blake
199. The enemy strategic assets will largely fall into three distinct categories.
200. In the genus Echinodorus there are distinct groups of self-fertile and self-sterile species differing in the leaf petioles.
201. Amalgamations were part of cooperative rationalisation in a drive to improve trading, but for Barnes this one had a distinct political dimension.
202. The ventral arm plates are nearly pentagonal with a distinct convex distal edge textured with layers of calcite forming a concentric pattern.
203. With his conscious self, Lewis had a very distinct loathing of Ulster Protestantism.
204. Some designs have distinct advantages and so these should be considered before purchase.
205. But both of these are distinct from intellectual, abstract or contemplative wisdom which was, for Aristotle, the highest goal.
206. But when these documentary imports came to direct films of their own, they revealed distinct personal leanings.
207. By the mid-sixteenth century it had emerged as a distinct species of case involving four allegations.
208. I have seldom felt the need to recognise these as distinct from rise-fall and fall-rise respectively.
209. It is not a separate corporate body distinct from the dominant social elites.
210. Their voices rose, pure and distinct in the clear air as they laughed and shouted to each other.
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