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)

Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.

Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.

Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.

(slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.

After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.

(poker slang) A pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down

(poker slang) three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud

I was dealt three of a kind, wired .

(informal, of people or communities) connected to the Internet; online

* 2002 , Derek Da Cunha, Singapore in the new millennium: challenges facing the city-state (page 247)

In typical Singaporean style, however, once the decision to get wired was made, the various agencies moved to ensure the Internet diffused very quickly.

* 2004 , Cincinnati Magazine (volume 38, number 3, December 2004, page 44)

Coffee drinkers now have yet another way to get wired . Laptop and Tablet PC users can have their double grande mocha lattes and surf the Web simultaneously at STARBUCKS