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distinguishing

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Verb

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distinguishing

  1. presentparticiple andgerund ofdistinguish

Adjective

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distinguishing (comparativemoredistinguishing,superlativemostdistinguishing)

  1. That serves todistinguish.
    • 1983,Richard Ellis,The Book of Sharks, Knopf,→ISBN, page118:
      It has no obviousdistinguishing characteristics, and therefore people are constantly ascribing to it the characteristics of other similar species.
    • 2022,American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
      The distinguishing feature of an acronym is that it is pronounced as if it were a single word, in the manner of NATO and NASA.

Derived terms

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Collocations

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Collocations
  • distinguishing feature
  • distinguishing characteristic
  • distinguishing mark
  • distinguishing factor
  • distinguishing trait
  • distinguishing quality
  • distinguishing character
  • distinguishing number

Translations

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that serves to distinguish—see alsodistinctive

Noun

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distinguishing (pluraldistinguishings)

  1. The act by which something is distinguished or told apart.
    • 2012, R. R. Cox,Schutz’s Theory of Relevance: A Phenomenological Critique, page49:
      There are not only these identifyings going on, but also there aredistinguishings. For just as in the example above there are identifications of the various extents, there aredistinguishings of these extents.

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