The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers somedistinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
Different from one another (with the preferable adposition being "from").
Horses aredistinct from zebras.
1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, inWell Tackled![1]:
“Yes, there are twodistinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant.
1667,John Milton, “Book VII”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
Wherever thus created — for no place / Is yetdistinct by name.
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1788,James McHenry, letter to George Washington, 27 July, inThe Documentary History of the First Federal Elections 1788–1790, vol. 2, ed. Gordon DenBoer, University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, page 109:
Here every means is made use of to do away alldistincting between federal and antifederal and I suspect with no very friendly design to the federal cause.
