Region vs Distinct - What's the difference?
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Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
(historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
Capable of being perceived very clearly.
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, title= Different from one another (with the preferable adposition being "from").
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, 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
As a noun region
is region; area.As an adjective distinct is
capable of being perceived very clearly.region
English
Noun
(wikipedia region) (en noun)- the equatorial regions
- the temperate regions
- the polar regions
- the upper regions of the atmosphere
- the abdominal regions
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*Anagrams
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Adjective
(en adjective)Fenella Saunders
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- 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.