distinct
Speech parts
1. distinct - Adjective
2. distinct - Verb
3. distinct - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.
Marked; variegated.
Separate in place; not conjunct; not united by growth or otherwise; -- with from.
Not identical; different; individual.
So separated as not to be confounded with any other thing; not liable to be misunderstood; not confused; well-defined; clear; as, we have a distinct or indistinct view of a prospect.
To distinguish.
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Examples
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.