verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a distinguished guest (= one who has done something that people respect or admire )
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Many distinguished guests were invited to the opening ceremony.
a distinguished/brilliant career (= very successful )
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She retired last year after a distinguished career as a barrister.
a distinguishing feature (= one that makes something different from others of the same type )
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A long beak is one of the bird’s distinguishing features.
a distinguishing/distinctive characteristic (= separating someone or something from others of the same type )
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The blue feathers are the distinguishing characteristic of the male bird.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
between
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More and more consultants were distinguishing between performance-only versus performance-and-change assignments.
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You had to go by their strut to distinguish between who should be approached and who avoided.
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Toward the end of Period 1, an infant begins to distinguish between objects, a behavior not present at birth.
clearly
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Nor did he distinguish clearly between practices in solo and tutti sections.
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Why does it exist? 5 Distinguish clearly between the benefits-received and the ability-to-pay principles of taxation.
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As soon as Possible we will paint this area of the playground so that it can be clearly distinguished by everyone.
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A retailer is required to distinguish clearly between the two in labelling and display.
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He also distinguishes clearly between criteria which qualify a firm's products to be considered and those which actually win the order.
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We can not, for instance, distinguish clearly between Na-O and Si-0 pairs, or Na-O and Ca-O pairs.
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He made his design choreographically viable by distinguishing clearly between the two styles he was using.
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Clearly distinguish between primary and secondary sources, and between the different types of history books.
most
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Her former husband is Britain's most distinguished amateur huntsman and Master of the Duke of Beafort's foxhounds.
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Today Loretta Barrett Books is one of the most distinguished literary agencies in the business.
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The performances too are most distinguished .
■ NOUN
ability
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And one of the distinctive features of life here has been a gradual loss of the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
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Some species of birds have developed the ability to distinguish between model and mimic and will feed on the imposters.
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Prioritising - the ability to distinguish between, for example, the urgent and the merely important. 3.
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The ability to distinguish between structure and detail, essential and inessential is a function of one's knowledge of a subject.
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They act on him and impair his ability to distinguish between thought and perception, between concepts and objects.
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Equally important for understanding of religion is the ability to distinguish between what is peripheral and what is central.
characteristic
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Both characteristics were to distinguish his rule over the next forty years.
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There were four main characteristics which distinguished the early retired from other older people.
class
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Firstly, the distinction between manual and non-manual work is not seen by some as an adequate way of distinguishing between classes .
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The most fundamental value that distinguishes classes differs for different class theorists.
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Marx distinguished two classes , bourgeois and proletarian, based on the ownership of the means of production.
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The buildings, playing fields, 75 monuments, benches, even trees honor Naval heroes and distinguished classes of midshipmen.
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At the moment, the law does not distinguish between different classes of director.
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Wealth during industrialisation was no longer adequate as a distinguishing feature of social class .
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Thus, we can see that we can distinguish three main classes in contemporary capitalist society.
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In this way, Portes distinguishes five social classes .
difficulty
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The difficulty in distinguishing between hypotheses was not surprising since only 209 families with Crohn's disease were available for analysis.
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He had difficulty distinguishing the real from the imagined.
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One reason for this reluctance to take action against the process of monopolization is the difficulty of distinguishing acceptable and unacceptable behaviour.
feature
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Salt ways present no special features that distinguish them from other roads and lanes on the map or on the ground.
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One of the features that distinguishes the United States from other countries is the extent to which teenagers work.
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Moral ambivalence is probably associated with a number of other features which distinguish regulatory misconduct from breaches of the traditional code.
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What features distinguish democracies or dictatorships?
form
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However, it is not simply the type of service or resource which distinguishes one form of prevention from another.
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He would distinguish the various forms in which meaning may be actualised from the underlying structures on which meaning rests.
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We must distinguish between weak forms and contracted forms.
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The second distinguishes crudely between legal form and intention.
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But even functional psychosis can vary in symptomatology and psychiatrists generally distinguish between two main forms .
group
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We jointly hosted an informal Sunday lunch for a distinguished group of actors on their day off.
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I know, of course, that distinguished individuals, even groups , in the homosexual community have claimed kinship with him.
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There are some characteristics that are helpful in distinguishing a mere group from a team.
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Types of Interest Groups To this point, we have not distinguished among political interest groups.
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It is not, of course, mere coverage of pension schemes that distinguishes manual from non-manual groups .
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A distinguished group of authors is slated for the seventh annual Women Writers Event.
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The database has extensive disaggregation by country, distinguishes fourteen commodity groups and covers a twenty year span of data.
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In less distinguished groups , the leader would have a fair amount of managing to do.
kind
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It is vital therefore to distinguish between the two kinds of breach of covenant.
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As he got older, spoke more and was spoken to more, he began to distinguish two kinds of people.
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However, Marxists distinguish two kinds of dissenting consciousness which can be fostered amongst workers by personal experience and by collective organization.
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We can distinguish between two kinds of rationale or emphasis in general degree courses: the general and the generic.
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One might distinguish three kinds of policy areas in which a country either is or is not sovereign.
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Hutcheson distinguishes two kinds of beauty, absolute and relative.
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Now, one can distinguish two kinds of schematic knowledge.
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The student learns to recognise and distinguish between different kinds of events and responds to them appropriately.
others
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This indicator must be a characteristic that is easily identifiable, and which clearly distinguishes working-class students from others .
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This will help distinguish your message from others , and in the process will interest the reader.
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At first infants can not distinguish between themselves and others .
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Then agents have a hard time distinguishing illegal aliens from others , he said.
type
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But we need to distinguish it from another type .
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But we need to distinguish between two types of tribal members.
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In principle, correspondence- and interpretation-computations together can distinguish between the three types of perception in question.
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In the last few years, nutritionists have begun to distinguish between two types of protein - animal and plant.
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The idea of a crossroads is a difficult concept to pin down because we have to distinguish between different types of changes.
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It is important to distinguish three types of merger.
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Nowadays it is important to distinguish between two main types of online information: historical and real time.
word
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Whenever he drifts toward sleep he feels close to distinguishing the words .
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Tone languages use tone to distinguish words from each other.
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However, the grammar must be able to correctly distinguish word hypotheses or the number of paths will grow exponentially.
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He could not distinguish her words but she sounded harassed and tense.
■ VERB
fail
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They fail to distinguish between wealth used to finance production and wealth used to finance consumption.
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Frequently, urban employment rates fail to distinguish between those living and working in the cities and those commuting in.
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Treating this tragedy as a law and order matter misses the point, because it fails to distinguish between symptom and cause.
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Otherwise you may obscure the development of your essay by failing to distinguish its overall direction.
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The problem of tracing the invention of enamel is made more difficult by failing to distinguish it more certainly from glass.
help
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Initiative members argue an ACE/Intel machine would have helped Intel distinguish itself from the cloners nipping most furiously at its heels.
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This will help distinguish your message from others, and in the process will interest the reader.
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Use the check card to help you distinguish between pattern and background rows.
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Naturally, we turn to medical experts to help us distinguish between a cold and the flu or another ailment.
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All of this should also help social workers to distinguish the important from the trivial.
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Child care research should help practitioners distinguish what is grave and enduring from the less serious and transient.
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The last chapter dealt with one type of connectivity which helps to distinguish text from non-text, namely thematic and information structure.
learn
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We say that he discovers his identity as he learns to distinguish between his body and the rest of the world.
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The student learns to recognise and distinguish between different kinds of events and responds to them appropriately.
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The octopus, he discovered, could learn to distinguish such shapes and patterns and avoid those coupled with the unpleasant experience.
need
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However, it is clear that we still need to distinguish between different advantages which can be distributed unequally.
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But we need to distinguish between two types of tribal members.
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But we need to distinguish it from another type.
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However, you need to distinguish between the case of the single team versus many teams.
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Also, as we have noted, we sometimes need to distinguish speaker from source and addressee from target.
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We need some way to distinguish such events from the crises that mark structural changes.
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To answer this question you need to distinguish between status that is earned and that which is not.
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In trying to sum up what this Green Movement is you need to distinguish between two important polarities, or tendencies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A tiny baby soon learns to distinguish its mother's face from other adults' faces.
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Even a expert would find it hard to distinguish between the original painting and the copy.
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I couldn't distinguish the words, but his tone was clear.
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It was just possible to distinguish the darkened village below.
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Several thousand minerals can be distinguished, each defined by its own set of properties.
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There's not a lot that distinguishes her from the other candidates.
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What distinguishes this approach from previous attempts to deal with HIV?
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What really distinguishes the proposal?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From that time onwards there was reason still, but not so much reason, to distinguish between trusts and legacies.
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I shall not attempt to distinguish the particular sources of individual ideas.
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The difficulty in distinguishing between hypotheses was not surprising since only 209 families with Crohn's disease were available for analysis.
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The trick in improving quality was to distinguish between variation due to random causes and that due to specific or assignable causes.
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They had to distinguish between problems because of a lack of ability from those of a lack of motivation.