Definition of Distinct

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Distinct

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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Distinct Quotations

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Thomas Jefferson

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Jane Austen

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

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.
Josef Albers

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.
Benjamin Disraeli

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
George Eliot

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
Alfred Stieglitz

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
Mortimer Adler

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Paul Cezanne

Distinct Translations

distinct in Afrikaans is helder
distinct in Danish is tydelig, klar
distinct in Dutch is helder, uitgesproken, klaar
distinct in French is net
distinct in Latin is evidens
distinct in Norwegian is tydelig, klar, adskilt
distinct in Portuguese is claro, distinto
distinct in Swedish is tydlig

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