DISTINCTION

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a fundamental distinction (= a clear difference between two similar things )

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A fundamental distinction exists between knowing a fact and understanding it.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

clear

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However, the courts did not recognise a clear cut distinction between the two classes of case.

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For there is a clear distinction between tolerating dissent and propagating it.

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It asserts that there is a clear distinction between the two kinds of statement and that there is no third kind.

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Observing the team in operation, our new employee will notice that there appear to be no clear job distinctions .

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Unfortunately this clear conceptual distinction between perceptions and attitudes is unrealistic.

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Some Republicans believe Dole can draw a clear enough distinction with Clinton to make foreign policy a telling issue in the campaign.

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In other words, there is a clear distinction between application logic and the computer representation of that logic.

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Is there in fact such a clear distinction to be maintained between civil association or societas and enterprise association or universitas?

dubious

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Sarah, left alone, had the dubious distinction of being the last of all the Titfords in Frome.

fine

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The appreciation of fine wine and the appreciation of fine intellectual distinctions often go together.

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Amoda was an erudite man who insisted on fine distinctions .

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This alone could not take into account the much finer distinctions that it is necessary to look at when determining social class.

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It starts out with a familiar idea and then builds on it, making neater analogies and finer distinctions .

fundamental

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Without these fundamental distinctions the economic privileges of the profession are suspect.

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Even at this early stage in their careers, fundamental distinctions in approach were emerging.

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That seems to me to be the fundamental distinction , and should be fully preserved.

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Clearly there is a considerable overlap between top-down and bottom-up plans, but the fundamental distinction needs making.

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But such a conception is to overlook a fundamental distinction about the two activities.

further

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One further distinction needs to be drawn.

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There is a further problem of distinction inherent in Marx's concept of ideology.

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A further distinction can be drawn between what is given and what is new in a message.

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There is however, one further distinction which is rarely noted, but which it is important to draw attention to here.

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We have a further distinction from the private sector in that we have a prior commitment.

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Sometimes, though, morphological agreement can make further distinctions not overtly made by the pronouns themselves.

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Under the conditions that usually obtain in receptive field plotting studies one further distinction has been reported.

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But there is one further distinction which needs to be made.

great

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Lunia was a beautiful young woman with an air of great distinction .

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The great distinction , clearly, is between the areas with and without animal husbandry.

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He was to teach Sixth Form Mathematics with great distinction from 1921 until his own retirement.

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A social scientist of great distinction and international reputation, Malinowski was a founder of modern social anthropology.

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Again, there were considerable variations between the townships, the greatest distinctions being between the working-class and middle-class communities.

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A greater distinction between the two systems of safeguards, though, lies in their psychology.

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One of its greatest distinctions is a heated indoor swimming pool with sauna.

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He was a very kind, youngish, amiable scholar of great distinction , and a power in the university.

important

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However, there is at least one important distinction .

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The reader is asked to be alert to that important distinction as this narrative unfolds.

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The first and least important distinction is between local and global sceptical arguments.

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An important distinction , but one a lawyer can lose sight of.

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These responses mark an important distinction in the later appreciation of Eliot.

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The from / to nature of most discussions about change begins to make important distinctions .

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These are perhaps the most important distinctions in the use of deictic terms, but they are not the only ones.

real

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But that is not the real distinction .

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But the real distinction to be made is not of age or costume: There are two kinds of birders.

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Do current practices reflect a real distinction between administrative and managerial activities? 3.

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Pigeons tend to be larger and doves to be smaller, but no real distinction .

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The real distinction doesn't lie in the fact of ownership, but in control.

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However, the directive is likely to remove any real distinction between personal data held on paper and on electronic systems.

sharp

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What empirical evidence is there that might persuade us to give credence to this sharp and absolute distinction ?

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All sports came to make sharp distinctions between those who received payment and those who did not.

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A sharp distinction between soma and germ line makes it possible to prevent acquired characters from being transmitted.

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The proliferation of retention of title clauses requires a sharp distinction to be drawn between contracts of sale and agency.

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There is no sharp distinction between the later stages of transition and the earlier ones of turbulent motion.

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Behaviouralists drew a sharp distinction between normative and scientific statements, and made it the hallmark of science to avoid the normative.

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We can not, therefore, draw too sharp a distinction between nuclear and extended family types.

social

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These social distinctions were reflected in the residential patterns of workers associated with the stations.

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There was very little if any social distinction between the subsidized private estates and the 1920s council housing.

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Differences in wealth were not easily transmuted into self-conscious social distinctions , but they did require certain forms of expenditure.

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Hygiene becomes a matter of social distinction: polite people always wear clean linen.

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Moreover, response was often a matter of context, and of finely attuned social and cultural distinctions .

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In Taï chimpanzees, too, we find a tendency towards such social distinctions , though the divisions are far from straight forward.

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How their absence of social distinction affected the performance of their duties can only be guessed.

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Indicates that there should be greater choice of housing and that social distinctions should not be reinforced.

■ NOUN

class

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Talk about class distinction , snobbery, it makes one bloody sick to think about it.

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That fact, and the recent changes in the social environment, have translated into few class distinctions on campus.

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In the second section, he cuts himself off from his humble family and is influenced greatly by class distinctions .

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Life was hard for the peasants, especially in the conservative south, where class distinctions were pronounced.

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The class distinctions we employ, you would maintain, are descriptive not pejorative.

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But about that time, presumably anticipating an early victory, the Communists imposed class distinctions on the movement.

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It was after the Second World War that the class distinction in station facilities disappeared, although it remained on the trains.

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The Democratic Republic is very bureaucratic, very much full of class distinctions .

gender

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Only those strategies used to overcome difficulties arising from gender distinctions will be commented on.

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The gender distinction nevertheless exists in some semantic areas and in the person system.

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In some languages, such as Arabic, gender distinctions apply to the second- as well as third-person pronouns.

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I mentioned earlier that the gender distinction in Arabic applies to the second as well as third person.

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The gender distinction is avoided by using a totally different structure throughout the whole set of instructions.

■ VERB

achieve

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He achieved the rare distinction of being equally famous in more than one field at the same time.

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Caradryel achieved another distinction - he was the first Phoenix King to die peacefully in bed.

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Both have achieved this distinction five times.

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This House of Lords decision still did not achieve a clear distinction between leases and licences.

blur

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It is easy to blur such distinctions .

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All around us, Negroponte says, computers are blurring the distinction between atoms and bits.

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These considerations tend to blur the distinction somewhat.

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They do not blur the distinction between testation and intestacy, but they mitigate it.

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The development of the concept of abuse of power blurred the distinction between merits and vires.

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And thirdly, by distributing company stock to employees it has blurred the capital-labour distinction in a number of firms.

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Mosley too became increasingly prone to blur the distinction between art, philosophy and life.

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Critical seminars within the university may sometimes blur this distinction if they contain elements of genuine intellectual exchange.

draw

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I draw no distinction between those who wield the weapons of destruction and those who do red-cross work.

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Why draw a distinction between the adopted and the biological child?

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We shall see that Law drew a clear distinction between innocent and fraudulent misrepresentation.

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However, if your company does not draw this distinction , the entire reimbursement is considered wages.

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But the impossibility of drawing this distinction may be bad for the arts.

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Some Republicans believe Dole can draw a clear enough distinction with Clinton to make foreign policy a telling issue in the campaign.

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The Convention draws no distinction between types of treaty.

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I decline to draw any distinctions ...

maintain

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Hardaker maintains that a distinction must be preserved between work and the inner life.

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It is important, but in practice exceedingly difficult, to maintain this distinction at all times in the study of meaning.

make

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However, Mr. Lawson then continues by making no distinction whatsoever between tobacco sponsorship and any other form of sponsorship.

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S., but you must make a distinction between derivatives and a complex derivative strategy.

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As you do so, try to build up a system of classification, explaining your basis for making distinctions .

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But he was not about to make that distinction .

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Why do these bodies make this distinction ?

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But early users of the language would not have made such a distinction .

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The Bible makes a definite distinction between them, though the distinction is not hard and fast.

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Children do not make the same rigid distinction between humans and animals that adults learn to make.

serve

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Charles was only ever jealous of him when he served with some distinction as a helicopter pilot during the Falklands war.

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Against a lawyer who I think we all know has served this court with distinction for many years.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

draw a comparison/parallel/distinction etc

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Here Locke draws a parallel between modes such as triangles, and substances such as gold and the Strasburg clock.

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I drew a parallel between the grinding plates and the grinding, unresolved pressures underlying this election year.

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I will start by drawing a distinction between what I will call social science history and hermeneutic history.

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It is also clear that it is difficult to draw comparisons between the Western Isles and the developing countries.

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It is now commonplace to draw a distinction between care in and care by the community.

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John Mortimer made the presentation speech, drawing parallels between Dickens and Dostoevsky.

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Why draw a distinction between the adopted and the biological child?

the dubious honour/distinction/pleasure (of doing sth)

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I therefore inherited the dubious honour of making it available on loan to youth workers.

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Mr Edmond has the dubious honour of being tried by the District of Columbia's first anonymous jury.

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Sarah, left alone, had the dubious distinction of being the last of all the Titfords in Frome.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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a poet of distinction

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Pablo insists that he is Basque, not Spanish - an important distinction .

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There is a clear distinction between lawful protest and illegal strike action.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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In addition to the main distinction based on participant roles, the person system may be organized along a variety of other dimensions.

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Life was hard for the peasants, especially in the conservative south, where class distinctions were pronounced.

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One of the few notions from game theory to penetrate the popular culture was the distinction of zero-sum and nonzero-sum games.

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Perhaps the neatest way of expressing the distinction is to contrast unilateral and cooperative procedures.

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The distinctions between the three cell types are quite subtle and may only be obvious after quite extensive testing.

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The plan would introduce a single class of bearer shares, abolishing the distinction between registered and bearer shares.

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To many, the distinction between rote memorization and understanding is unclear and leads to confused teaching and learning.

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When conceptual distinctions are expressed in language they are referred to as semantic relations.