Distinct vs Personal - What's the difference?
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Capable of being perceived very clearly.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, title= Different from one another (with the preferable adposition being "from").
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=13 Noticeably different from others; distinctive.
Separate in place; not conjunct or united; with from .
* Clarendon
(obsolete) Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.
* Milton
(obsolete) Marked; variegated.
* Spenser
Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general
Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= Done in person; without the intervention of another.
* White
Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.
(label) Denoting a person.
An advertisement by which individuals attempt to meet others with similar interests.
A movable; a chattel.
Distinct is a related term of personal.
As an adjective distinct
is capable of being perceived very clearly.As a noun personal is
staff (employees of a business).distinct
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Fenella Saunders
Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct 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.}}
citation, passage=“Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant.}}
- The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct .
- Wherever thus created — for no place / Is yet distinct by name.
- The which [place] was dight / With divers flowers distinct with rare delight.
Synonyms
* prominent * separate * several (in dated sense)Antonyms
* indistinct * (capable of being perceived very clearly) confusing * (different from one another) sameExternal links
* * ----personal
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* personall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
- This immediate and personal speaking of God Almighty to Abraham, Job and Moses,
