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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211. These large fish are called ferox, a distinct species of brown trout that make their living by eating their smaller brethren.
212. Although the Alsops' fortunes waxed and waned through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, certain family characteristics remained distinct.
213. Fossils may tie them to the ungulates, but they seem quite distinct from any extant member of the group.
214. For both approaches, the fundamental feature of society is stratification-the unequal distribution of values across distinct groups.
215. For any kind of prolonged activity, warm-bloodedness would have been a distinct advantage.
216. But costume jewellery had the distinct advantage of not pretending to be anything other than what it was.
217. But I got a distinct impression he didn't want me to see what he was writing.
218. Are they distinct forms of the verb or simply variants of a single verb form - the infinitive?
219. There were increasing demands for a national policy for the unemployed as distinct from central support of local efforts.
220. It was not until 1838 that there was general acceptance that the two diseases were distinct.
221. Equally important, although in many ways distinct,(http://sentencedict.com) was a perceptible decline in public confidence.
222. Without much outright horsepower-a distinct lack of brawn-the Porsche should be driven with brains.
223. This phenomenon is distinct from onomatopoeia - it is sometimes called sound symbolism: there is no question of auditory resemblance.
224. As night fell,(sentencedict.com) the outline of the mountain became less distinct.
225. Entrepreneurial strategies - as distinct from their managerial implementation - centre on investment, marketing and the form of company organisation.
226. Cities have a distinct advantage over school and special districts.
227. Instinctive acceptance of a corporate identity for this constituency forced the party into an integrative role on two distinct but related fronts.
228. These are distinct for analytical purposes though in practice they overlap.
229. Revisionist analyses of socio-economic trends in the countryside fall into two distinct categories.
230. The buffers and draw gear were spring type, as distinct from india rubber as used on some.
231. The retained building, says Farrell, performs an urban function in demarcating two distinct zones within the square.
232. Every ant colony has its own clone of fungi, distinct from that on the neighbouring farm.
233. This is a mechanism of drug resistance distinct from amplification and multidrug-resistance described previously.
234. Bukharin's point was that the same methods can not be used to carry through these two quite distinct tasks.
235. In general it was almost exclusively extreme right-wing elements who were first involved, but they tended to be of two distinct types.
236. There are ten distinct types of glycogen storage diseases and all of them are rare.
237. He re-emerged in 1987 and 1991 to fight constitutional proposals to recognise Quebec as a distinct society.
238. Many had, during marriage, distinct conjugal roles and were therefore quite unaccustomed to undertaking partners' household tasks.
239. The doctrine of manifest destiny was distinct from the imperialist dynamic that flourished around the turn of the century.
240. Those who work with bereaved people see mourning divided into four distinct stages.
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