Adjective

(en adjective)

Capable of being perceived very clearly.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders

, title= 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.}}

Different from one another (with the preferable adposition being "from").

* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne, title=Well Tackled!

, chapter=13 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.}}

Noticeably different from others; distinctive.

Separate in place; not conjunct or united; with from .

* Clarendon

The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct .

(obsolete) Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.

* Milton

Wherever thus created — for no place / Is yet distinct by name.

(obsolete) Marked; variegated.

* Spenser

The which [place] was dight / With divers flowers distinct with rare delight.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(not comparable) Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.

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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique . The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}

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Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.

Particular, characteristic.

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(proscribed) Of a rare quality, unusual.

* {{quote-book, passage=And as I look back, it seems to me that we were fairly unique , the sixty of us, in that there wasn’t one good mixer in the bunch.

, title=For Esmé—With Love and Squalor , author=J.D. Salinger , year=1950}}