distinct
Usage
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The adjective distinct implies a uniqueness that is clear and unmistakable: plans similar in objective but distinct in method. Diverse, in describing ideas or opinions, suggests degrees of difference that may be at odds or challenging to reconcile: diverse views on how the area should be zoned. Various stresses the multiplicity of sorts or instances of a thing or a class of things: various sorts of seaweed; busy with various duties. Different emphasizes separateness and dissimilarity: two different (or differing) versions of the same story.
Example Sentences
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Surveillance footage collected from homes near Brown University before and after the shooting showed a man between 5 feet 7 inches and 5 feet 9 inches tall with a “distinct walking gait.”
By incorporating their relativistic model into modern gravitational waveform calculations, the researchers demonstrate that such dark matter structures would leave distinct, measurable signatures in the signals detected by future observatories.
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By combining these experiments with gene expression analyses, they confirmed that each sensor plays a distinct role in cold perception depending on the tissue involved.
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Structural firefighters -- those working in the built environment -- rely on turnout gear made up of three distinct layers.
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A hidden consequence of disasters, distinct from the traumas afflicting each person, was a shredding of “social life that damages the bonds attaching people together and impairs a prevailing sense of communality,” he wrote.
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