adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a definite/distinct advantage (=one that you can clearly notice)
▪ Electronic trading has a number of distinct advantages.
a distinct edge (=a definite or noticeable advantage)
▪ Being tall gives you a distinct edge in some sports.
a distinct possibility (=something that is quite likely)
▪ I knew there was a distinct possibility that I might fail my degree.
a distinct/marked/conspicuous lack of sth (=very noticeable)
▪ She looked at him with a marked lack of enthusiasm.
a distinct/separate category (=clearly different from others)
▪ Animals fall into distinct categories.
the distinct impression (=used when something seems very clear to you)
▪ We were left with the impression that the contract was ours if we wanted it.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ These two techniques of casting are regarded as distinct and having different geographical distributions.
▪ Entrepreneurial strategies - as distinct from their managerial implementation - centre on investment, marketing and the form of company organisation.
▪ These are seen as distinct stages of Third World exploitation associated with the growth of industrial capitalism in the west.
▪ No, mass-produced reproductions - as distinct from limited edition - prints seldom if ever rise in value.
▪ Dietary fibre is a substance obtained from plant foods, as distinct from animal foods.
▪ How different does it have to be to count as distinct?
▪ These are more graphical presentations as distinct from verbal listings.
▪ Piaget allows two years for the development of sensorimotor intelligence as distinct from conceptual intelligence.
entirely
▪ An analogy with the film industry, or treatment as an entirely distinct medium requiring its own organization, was inappropriate.
▪ These two areas are not entirely distinct, but it may be useful to examine them separately.
less
▪ In fact, the lines of demarcation between the two camps were much less distinct.
▪ The gneisses are coarse grained and show much broader and less distinct foliation.
▪ A second, less distinct ring is visible further out.
▪ The track becomes less distinct and goes into birchwood and a beautiful glen.
▪ There are some signs that the three patterns are becoming less distinct.
▪ However, after 1918 feminist arguments became less and less distinct.
more
▪ The picture forming in his mind was clearer, more distinct, though he could scarce believe it.
▪ Financial policy, which deviated increasingly from monetarist orthodoxy, also pursued a more distinct course with Nigel Lawson as Chancellor.
▪ I prefer to toast it for a more distinct flavor.
▪ The murmur of the crowd became more distinct.
▪ Gradually I become aware that one voice is more distinct and more powerful than the rest.
▪ It was now thought that the roles of party and state would be more distinct.
▪ Although the ranges of the two dolphins correspond geographically, the feeding ecology of the two species is more distinct.
quite
▪ Bukharin's point was that the same methods can not be used to carry through these two quite distinct tasks.
▪ The two galleries have quite distinct personalities.
▪ It arises out of them but is quite distinct.
▪ Similarly, the ideology of socialism in its Marxist-Leninist form is quite distinct from its democratic socialist form.
▪ Even quite distinct groups share the same sorts of patterns.
▪ The atomic weight is a ratio quite distinct from the weight in grams.
▪ These two editions of the scheme are quite distinct.
▪ In one sense consumption and investment are quite distinct.
so
▪ The Offices so distinct, yet so conveniently communicating - Charmingly contrived!
very
▪ Her straight little black-clothed back looked very distinct and lonely in all that green and blue and sunlight.
▪ Everything became very distinct, in a way I remembered all too well.
▪ As the interviews progressed, a very distinct new picture of Diana surfaced from beneath the highly varnished image.
▪ If male-female separatism characterized the first decade of the new century, it was separatism of a very distinct flavor.
▪ Unlike the U.K., Ontario has the advantage of very distinct seasons.
▪ The sounds down on Boot Quay are very distinct: especially the rustling pods on the trees.
▪ The film is a very distinct dramatic medium.
▪ There are very distinct rudder trim changes as power is brought back and cruise established.
■ NOUN
advantage
▪ This has distinct advantages over using eye drops.
▪ But the mulattoes had one distinct advantage.
▪ The natural projection of the land along the Thames conferred distinct advantages on West Ham as a site for the new docks.
▪ Cities have a distinct advantage over school and special districts.
▪ There were distinct advantages for me in the relationship.
▪ Some designs have distinct advantages and so these should be considered before purchase.
▪ Such an approach has distinct advantages.
▪ For any kind of prolonged activity, warm-bloodedness would have been a distinct advantage.
area
▪ Its soils and drainage make it a quite distinct area, described on pages 46 and 47.
▪ Simple division Being able to divide a living/dining room into two distinct areas means you can easily create an intimate setting.
category
▪ Revisionist analyses of socio-economic trends in the countryside fall into two distinct categories.
▪ The enemy strategic assets will largely fall into three distinct categories.
▪ These functions fall into two wholly distinct categories.
▪ Not one person identifies fathers as a distinct category.
▪ Advertising structures the newspaper into distinct categories and sections.
▪ The two distinct categories are muddled in a manner that is difficult to separate analytically.
▪ They do not represent four predefined, distinct categories of user.
class
▪ The decision as to what to accept as a distinct class is quite arbitrary.
▪ Weights could be modified to cluster similar input patterns into distinct classes.
▪ For the class approach there can be more than two distinct class groups.
form
▪ It takes two distinct forms in different species.
▪ There are distinct forms, each with its own beautiful shade of brilliant emerald, sap, and yellowish green.
▪ And we know from micro-fossils that there were already several distinct forms of bacteria-like organisms as long ago as 3000 million years.
▪ Are they distinct forms of the verb or simply variants of a single verb form - the infinitive?
▪ The circle was used, and round churches, though rare, are a distinct form.
▪ In particular the two distinct forms of papillae on the jaw, open tentacle pores and small tentacle scales.
▪ Furthermore, class relations take distinct forms within societies.
group
▪ For both approaches, the fundamental feature of society is stratification-the unequal distribution of values across distinct groups.
▪ In the genus Echinodorus there are distinct groups of self-fertile and self-sterile species differing in the leaf petioles.
▪ During Spenser's time Ireland was inhabited by three distinct groups.
▪ The mods eventually split into two distinct groups.
▪ At least three distinct groups want a share of the scarce resource.
▪ Even quite distinct groups share the same sorts of patterns.
impression
▪ It gave the distinct impression, I noticed, of being Cortina-shaped.
▪ The boy had the distinct impression he was about to meet some one who would welcome his arrival.
▪ She got the distinct impression that Melissa wasn't best pleased to find that Luke had company.
▪ Once again she got the distinct impression that he didn't want to talk about the sculptor.
▪ Melissa had the distinct impression that he held Iris's chair for a fraction longer than her own.
▪ But I got a distinct impression he didn't want me to see what he was writing.
▪ The Alliance failed to make a distinct impression.
▪ The atmosphere in this dark room was oddly disquieting, giving him the distinct impression that he was not alone.
kind
▪ Dandelions are divided into thousands of distinct kinds, fitted to where they live and blended into an almost continuous series.
▪ The belt contains many distinct kinds of material, each arranged in a ring about the Sun with a preferred average distance.
▪ Clearly, children can not speak at birth, but Chomsky wishes to credit them with two distinct kinds of knowledge.
▪ The justifications of procedures of inquiry are of two distinct kinds.
▪ There is a vast number of these, and they fall into several distinct kinds.
lack
▪ Without much outright horsepower-a distinct lack of brawn-the Porsche should be driven with brains.
▪ There seems to be a distinct lack of aggression or passion.
▪ There were far fewer flags, a distinct lack of appetite for celebration.
phase
▪ The new format broke the process down into three distinct phases with different sets of lawmakers handling each.
▪ There are two distinct phases to Ramsay's career, and two accompanying styles.
▪ The Moon moves through three distinct phases.
▪ Good system development goes through two distinct phases.
▪ UDCs have been designated in two distinct phases.
▪ For Bukharin, the transition period encompassed two distinct phases.
▪ Each symbolises a distinct phase in the physical history of Lynn.
possibility
▪ Further revaluations remain a distinct possibility, despite a slight weakening of Sterling.
▪ Diversification was still a distinct possibility, but there seemed to be more enthusiasm for concentrating on the propane market.
▪ And Juliet's theory was growing into a distinct possibility.
▪ He said there is a distinct possibility the Coyotes will use the ice at Veterans Memorial Coliseum this season.
▪ To Gould, though, Lear's enterprise had distinct possibilities.
▪ The Riemann sphere still describes the array of physically distinct possibilities, but now only abstractly.
▪ If it goes on for another 2 weeks, that is a distinct possibility.
▪ And there is a distinct possibility that the tax break might go primarily to people already giving.
society
▪ He re-emerged in 1987 and 1991 to fight constitutional proposals to recognise Quebec as a distinct society.
species
▪ These large fish are called ferox, a distinct species of brown trout that make their living by eating their smaller brethren.
▪ By the mid-sixteenth century it had emerged as a distinct species of case involving four allegations.
stage
▪ These are seen as distinct stages of Third World exploitation associated with the growth of industrial capitalism in the west.
▪ The contrast arises because the two tasks reflect distinct stages of visual processing.
▪ It has three distinct stages of processing - bauxite mining, alumina refining and ingot smelting.
▪ Each hair goes through distinct stages of growth.
▪ This analysis produces six distinct stages, as follows.
▪ Those who work with bereaved people see mourning divided into four distinct stages.
type
▪ In general it was almost exclusively extreme right-wing elements who were first involved, but they tended to be of two distinct types.
▪ There are ten distinct types of glycogen storage diseases and all of them are rare.
▪ These two distinct types of lens source have always coexisted; it is the balance between they that has changed.
▪ In adults there seem to be two anatomically distinct types of stomach.
▪ In both window tracery and vaulting designs there are, despite many variations, two distinct types of pattern.
▪ Surprisingly, the origin of these two distinct types of stomach is unknown.
▪ The motivational system of a higher organism is complex, comprising several distinct types of mechanism expressed through differing behavioural means.
ways
▪ Handling Handling may be done in several distinct ways.
▪ There are three distinct ways of identifying an entry.
▪ Oxidation acts as a weathering process in two distinct ways.
▪ New issues of stock are now made in three distinct ways.
▪ However, Blank's categories differ in two distinct ways.
▪ This model in figure 13.8 suggests that being young affects attitudes towards breaking the law in two distinct ways.
▪ Rather, different regions have been affected in distinct ways.
▪ During the period of dominance he identifies three distinct ways through which psychodynamic theories had a major influence on social work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a distinct advantage
▪ African and Asian elephants are distinct species.
▪ As night fell, the outline of the mountain became less distinct.
▪ I get the distinct impression that you don't like her very much.
▪ I have a distinct memory of my grandma sitting in the rocking chair, knitting.
▪ The European Union is made up of 15 nations with distinct cultural, linguistic and economic roots.
▪ The mammoth was related to, but distinct from, modern elephants.
▪ The sign's lettering was crisp and distinct.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But as recipes for body-building, they have a distinct Utility Function.
▪ Clearly distinct from the others were the two groups with the modern lacquers and the samples treated with preservative.
▪ Hardest to predict is whether an eventual movement for reform will adopt a distinct and more hopeful political and economic orientation.
▪ The cottage development acquired a distinct demographic identity, as well as a life-style of its own.
▪ The snow layer was thin and slightly sticky so the tracks were distinct rather than immediately filled in as made.
▪ There are two distinct phases to Ramsay's career, and two accompanying styles.
▪ There is often no distinct episode of illness with clear beginning and end points.
▪ There was certainly a distinct local advertising market available to support it.