1DIFFERENTclearly different or belonging to a different type 明显不同的,截然不同的,不同种类的
two entirely distinct languages
两种完全不同的语言
distinct types/groups/categories etc
There are four distinct types.
有四种完全不同的类型。
distinct from
The learning needs of the two groups are quite distinct from each other.
这两个组的学习需求区别很大。
2as distinct from somethingused to make it clear that you are not referring to a particular kind of thing, but to something else 完全不同于某事物,与某事物不同〔用于强调所谈论的是另一事物〕
a movie star, as distinct from an actor
一个电影明星,和演员是两回事
Examples from the Corpus
as distinct from something• There were increasing demands for a nationalpolicy for the unemployedas distinct fromcentral support of local efforts.• Piaget allows two years for the development of sensorimotor intelligenceas distinct fromconceptual intelligence.• I want it to go on because I've just recently begun to enjoy it as distinct from experiencing it.• The buffers and drawgear were spring type, as distinct from india rubber as used on some.• I have seldom felt the need to recognise these as distinct from rise-fall and fall-rise respectively.• Originally, chambermusicmeantsecular music, or that of the courtas distinct from that of the Church.• They are a major and fundamentalcomponent of the system of the unconscious, as distinct from the conscious and preconscious systems.• Entrepreneurial strategies - as distinct from their managerial implementation - centre on investment, marketing and the form of company organisation.
3CLEAR/EASY TO SEEsomething that is distinct can clearly be seen, heard, smelled etc 清晰的,清楚的,明显的OPP indistinct
The outline of the ship became more distinct.
船的轮廓变得更加清晰了。
4[only before noun]OBVIOUS a distinct possibility, feeling, quality etc definitely exists and cannot be ignored 〔可能性、感觉、特征等〕确实存在的,确实的,不容忽视的
I got the distinct impression he was trying to make me angry.
我很清楚地感觉到他是想惹我生气。
There is a distinct possibility that this will eventually be needed.
quite distinct• And extraadhesion is given by the positiveheelstep, which is quite distinct.• It arises out of them but is quite distinct.• We shall see in a moment why their activities are quite distinct.• Its soils and drainage make it a quite distinct area, described on pages 46 and 47.• Fossils may tie them to the ungulates, but they seem quite distinct from any extantmember of the group.• Similarly, the ideology of socialism in its Marxist-Leninist form is quite distinct from its democraticsocialist form.• The two galleries have quite distinctpersonalities.• Bukharin's point was that the same methods can not be used to carry through these two quite distincttasks.
distinct lack of• There seems to be a distinct lack ofaggression or passion.• There were far fewer flags, a distinct lack ofappetite for celebration.• Without much outright horsepower-a distinct lack of brawn-the Porsche should be driven with brains.
Origindistinct
(1300-1400)Latindistinctus, past participle of distinguere; → DISTINGUISH