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)

Able to be seen.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner

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