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distinct in English:

1. possibility


For the crime of first degree murder, this court hereby sentences you to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The possibility that the explosion was caused by carelessness cannot be ruled out.
The main reason is that the subjects were totally unaware of the possibility of shortcuts.
possibility of leaving
If Buddhism is attractive, it is because it appears as a possibility of touching the infinite and obtaining happiness without having any concrete religious obligations. A spiritual auto-eroticism of some sort.
It's not clear right now whether time travel is really something that exists in reality but its possibility has been proven by theoretical physics.
N-no it's not that ... it's that there could be someone who would need me for what I am, for my true self, I hadn't even thought of that possibility.
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility for it.
It would be very interesting if, the soonest possible, there would be the possibility to do advanced searches on the Tatoeba database.
If I considered the possibility of catching the flu every time I kiss a girl I don't know, I'd have no luck with the ladies at all.
The gesture of adolescence, which raves for this or that on one day with the ever-present possibility of damning it as idiocy on the next, is now socialized.
It was announced that there is a high possibility of the fuel within the nuclear reactor of Nuclear Plant 1 melting.
Confident as I am that you will not trifle with this appeal, my heart sinks and my hand trembles at the bare thought of such a possibility.
I had never even thought of the possibility of working in the USA until I was offered a job there.
We raised our eyebrows for a possibility, exchanged a smile if the man was good-looking, and made a grimace if he made 3 minutes feel like 3 hours.

English word "distinct"(possibility) occurs in sets:

Słowa słowa słowa 2

2. separate


We'd like separate checks.
He wished to keep the bank accounts separate for tax purposes.
We'll also have to create a separate smoking section, won't we?
As more time passed, these Creoles became separate languages: Spanish, French, Italian, etc.
Pleased with The Pilgrim's Progress, my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.
Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may from a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split.
You can avoid foodborne illness by having separate cutting boards for meat and vegetables.
The separate names used for female nurses "kangofu" and male nurses "kangoshi", were unified in 2002 into "kangoshi".
Certainly there is nothing that will separate people more, and nothing so easy to slip into.
Is it easy to separate eggs, that is to separate the white part from the yellow part?
In 1893, south africa was not one nation, but several separate provinces
I like to keep my work and my personal life separate.
I would like that in a separate folder. / 2. He sent two separate messages to two separate computers. / 3. It's like they're a separate species.
Writing two separate words when it should be written as one is a big problem in Norway.

English word "distinct"(separate) occurs in sets:

Class dated 4.03

3. entities



English word "distinct"(entities) occurs in sets:

Semestr 1 - Unit 02 (collocations)

4. distinct


two entirely distinct languages
The company made a distinct contribution to the charity
Proponents of a newer study classify the golden-bellied mangabey as a distinct subspecies.
Imogen of the Internet has created a seminal classification of thirty distinct varieties of chatspeak, some now facing linguistic extinction.
distinctly = wyraźnie
Lenses with two distinct optical powers are also called "bifocals".
Cancer is not one but more than a hundred distinct diseases.
The word 'nationalism' is used in at least three distinct senses.
Definition something that is distinct is clearly different from other things of the same
Mary has a wonderfully distinct voice. I would recognise it anywhere!
His voice was quiet but every word was distinct.
Art Nouveau was also a movement of distinct individuals such as Gustav Klimt, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Alfons Mucha, René Lalique, Antoni Gaudí and Louis Comfort Tiffany, each of whom interpreted it in their own individual manner.
Δhe restaurant is divided into two distinct areas: a smoking and a non-smoking one.
His distinct formula for a flavoured syrup.
It is a distinct topic, don't mention it.

5. discrete


They are discrete elements usable in different combinations.
Time is viewed in a linear way and as a discrete commodity.

6. recognizably different in nature from something else of a similar type



7. clearly noticeable



8. clearly different or belonging to a different type



9. special


The best salad you'll ever eat is the one they serve with their lunch special.
Special services include a personal driver for each guest.
Nothing special.
These special characteristics explain its preference for still-hunting (lying motionless beside a seal's breathing hole, waiting for one to surface).
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Google shows a special colorless version of its logo to countries that have experienced recent tragedy.
After that, many live in special homes for the aged where their children and grandchildren can come to visit them.
Kareishu is a special smell that comes as old people age. Popular expressions such as: "Ossan kusai" or "Oyaji kusai" (smelly old man) refer to this smell.
A special resolution to be proposed at a general meeting may be amended by ordinary resolution.
I would like to put special emphasis on the concept that social ecology is the second school of contemporary environmentalism.
Extra special treatment is imperative to get the vessel through government red tape, so that she can leave port on time.
In my city there is a special bus, called BLQ, which leaves from the airport and stops near my house.
Krista's curt, businesslike tone put off her clients at the maternity ward, especially on their special days.
Before the arrival of this skyscraper, all the buildings in the city stood in special relationship to each other.