Synonym: differentiation, eminence, note, preeminence. Similar words: distinctive, distinct, distinguish, function, sanction, and function, functional, malfunction. Meaning: [dɪ'stɪŋkʃn] n. 1. a discrimination between things as different and distinct 2. high status importance owing to marked superiority 3. a distinguishing quality 4. a distinguishing difference.
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61. The order was created in 1902 as a special distinction for eminent men and women.
62. Her majesty awarded a distinction to the retiring Prime Minister.
63. There is not always a clear-cut distinction between right and wrong.
64. Wearing the county tie was a mark of modest social distinction.
65. Her majesty awarded a distinction upon 〔 to 〕 the retiring Prime Minister.
66. The US enjoys the dubious distinction of being the lawsuit capital of the world.
67. He has the distinction of being regarded as the Federal Republic's greatest living writer.
68. She draws an important distinction between the different kinds of illness.
69. We can see a sharp distinction between ambition and greed.
70. Some difficulties arise, however, from the generally accepted distinction.
71. These considerations tend to blur the distinction somewhat.
72. They do not blur the distinction between testation and intestacy, but they mitigate it.
73. It has implied that where ideological commitments are involved a distinction may be made between relatively easy gestures and hard administrative battles.
74. Another distinction is that some wholesale markets are auction markets, and some are over-the-counter markets. 5.
75. Mosley too became increasingly prone to blur the distinction between art, philosophy and life.
76. In the appropriation accounts of the Government, the distinction is almost non-existent.
77. Yet there was, in Orphism, a distinction between body and soul.
78. It is also important to note, at the outset, the distinction between financial accounting and management accounting.
79. But this reduces the distinction between the national and the comprador bourgeoisie to a quite arbitrary judgement on what constitutes national development.
80. The show, which opens Friday, is an exploration of the distinction between low art and high art.
81. The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein
82. The distinction between the intermediate and the aggravated offence has also given rise to adverse comment.
83. Names and addresses Two white papers on further and higher education included a proposal to abolish the distinction between universities and polytechnics.
84. Pinto beans have the distinction of being one of the quickest beans to cook.
84. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
85. This famous and much-discussed distinction between primary and secondary qualities has historical antecedents in Galileo, Descartes, and Hobbes.
86. The bill would abolish the distinction between domestic and international banning orders.
87. First, any distinction between party officials and state officials becomes very blurred.
88. Then the association presented its annual awards for distinction in art history, art, and criticism.
89. This is no semantic nicety; rather, it is arguable that the distinction reveals something of their political specificities.
90. A social scientist of great distinction and international reputation, Malinowski was a founder of modern social anthropology.
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