adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a distinctive/striking appearance (= unusual and interesting )
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The unusual leaves give the plant a distinctive appearance.
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.
distinctive
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Hops give beer its distinctive bitter taste.
distinctive/unique (= very different from other foods or drinks )
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Juniper berries give the drink its distinctive flavour.
distinctive/unmistakable
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Suddenly from below came the unmistakable sound of gunfire.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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There, each of the three species does have a very different and highly distinctive pattern of markings.
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There is thus no evidence to suggest that definition expansion may provide useful information when applied selectively to highly distinctive words.
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In other words, does the expansion of highly distinctive words result in a greater proportion of useful information?
more
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There is a growing band of buyers who want something more distinctive and who are prepared to pay extra for it.
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A skyscraper would obviously be more distinctive than a low bulky design.
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Corn oil is slightly heavier and more distinctive in flavour - I find it too heavy for salads.
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Of course, I am more easily identified and more distinctive , if not distinguished, than most authors.
most
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I argue along with T. J. Clark that Parisian modernism is most distinctive in terms of the disruptive force.
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The consequent leverage is the most distinctive feature of our financial era.
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The most distinctive land-mark in the parish is the Rimswell water tower, built in 1916 to serve South Holderness with water.
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Yet these ego-structures, although perhaps most distinctive of our species, did not appear whole, complete and without a past.
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However, financiers, merchants and bankers, such as the Rothschilds and the Barings, remained the most distinctive group.
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But the most distinctive feature is the fertilizer plant.
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And the most distinctive languages are often the most vulnerable - those of native peoples.
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The most distinctive institution of capitalist economies is the privately owned corporation.
quite
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Real diamonds have a quite distinctive , soapy texture to the surface and are immune from water.
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It had a big cairn of stones which made it quite distinctive .
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There are many overlaps between the approaches, though their specific orientations are quite distinctive .
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The station etiquette of the suburban commuter was quite distinctive .
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The policy traditions are again quite distinctive in other nations.
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Another, contemporary series of Gosol paintings is characterized by a gentle, pastoral mood that is quite distinctive .
so
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That's about ten pounds for every one of the wrinkles that makes them so distinctive .
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Individually, each was a stylist with a voice and approach so distinctive they could never be mistaken for anyone else.
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He had that elusive quality so distinctive of Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces.
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The Macintosh casing was so distinctive that its visual presence would become as recognizable as a Volkswagen bug.
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Anjou wines are so distinctive , that in 1920 a competition was held to design a glass to do them justice.
very
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He created very distinctive passages of ascending chords to accompany the magic bird's flight through the trees.
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Loganberries display a purplish dark red colon Their flavor is slightly tart and very distinctive , which makes them useful for winemaking.
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The elements selected from the confusion of conflicting movements have this different and very distinctive bias.
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Those in my tiresome generation who thought 25 years ago it was so very distinctive , so in, to swear.
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There ought to be something very distinctive about the theory that describes the universe.
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No prize-winner, perhaps, but a very distinctive Koi.
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The all black bottle was very distinctive .
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The adult male peregrine is a very distinctive bluey black in colour when seen from the rear.
■ NOUN
character
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The distinctive character of the drawing is determined by two quite independent principles.
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They evolved rapidly and spread widely, and have a range of distinctive characters to help the investigator in his identifications.
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Taken together, they conveyed a view of primary teaching which had a distinctive character .
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Such communities acquired their own distinctive character and many welcomed the Evangelical Revival with enthusiasm.
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It was the combination of large circulation share and a large number of titles that gave concentration its distinctive character in 1990.
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They were in effect an inferior kind of man, with no distinctive character of their own.
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What, finally, is the vital, dynamic core of the community that gives it its uniquely distinctive character ?
characteristic
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There were three distinctive characteristics about the archosaurs that paleontologists discovered marked them off from their antecedents.
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During his lifetime, the distinctive characteristics of his vocation had begun to dwindle.
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These distinctive characteristics come from differences in minute quantities of flavouring constituents whose concentrations are at the threshold of human sensory perception.
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All madeiras are blended and the blender is an artist, giving the blend its distinctive characteristics .
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The three islands have distinctive characteristics with the best of the game fishing being on South Uist.
contribution
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At its most basic level, the railway station was the nineteenth century's distinctive contribution to architectural forms.
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It is at this stage Ministers must make their distinctive contribution .
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His distinctive contribution was to apply the conventions of estate and garden plans to county maps.
feature
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The distinctive feature of the method lies in what it does not do.
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The consequent leverage is the most distinctive feature of our financial era.
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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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Ideally, of course, each type of music should he noted down according to a method that reflects its distinctive features .
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He can begin to analyse the distinctive features of communicative interactions while still using the language of the mentalist.
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Female and juvenile have no distinctive features , differing from Calandra and White-winged Larks in lack of white in wing.
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The eye-spotted dorsal fin is another distinctive feature .
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It is also an extremely distinctive feature in terms of its high level of geographical polarization.
flavour
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No brewer should ever be afraid of making beer with a distinctive flavour .
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To my taste, none of these have a particularly distinctive flavour , but the quality in texture is immediately obvious.
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Thanks to some very skilful hanging each of the four rooms used has a very distinctive flavour all its own.
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It has a distinctive flavour that blends well with pork.
form
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He argues that each form of kinship has its distinctive form of arrangements.
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Legislation now produced separate apparatuses and spheres of activity, with distinctive forms of knowledge and expertise.
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M'ARS specialise in a distinctive form of traditionalism, close to surrealism.
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In this tranquil setting stands the distinctive form of Holme Castle, an impressive Victorian stone house built in 1820.
nature
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Ability to care for the helpless is women's distinctive nature .
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The distinctive nature of Ends is further reinforced by the subsequent actions of club officials and police.
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The distinctive nature of this pattern was best illustrated in the coaches to away matches.
pattern
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There, each of the three species does have a very different and highly distinctive pattern of markings.
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The bicolor damsel, however, retains its distinctive pattern .
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There is much evidence that the fluctuation field involves distinctive patterns of motion.
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What mechanisms built the jaw's distinctive pattern , each tooth unique, the bone an asymmetric array of lumps and bumps?
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Its runways made a distinctive pattern , a slanting cross, as if some one had slammed a rubber stamp on the scruffy countryside.
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Bullock's report says companies that emerge from such university environments follow a distinctive pattern of development.
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All the troops in a regiment wear a uniform which has its own distinctive pattern or mix of colours.
quality
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Education is seen as a process of nurturing individuality, of fostering distinctive qualities that already reside within each individual.
shape
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All three are of type K. Ara has a fairly distinctive shape .
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Each variety is molded into distinctive shapes .
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There is no really distinctive shape , but there are two objects of special interest.
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And it's a very distinctive shape , which doesn't conform with anything in this room.
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Didymograptus species of this type have a distinctive shape like a tuning fork.
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Immatures best told from other large immature gulls by distinctive shape of bill, heavy and appearing to droop at tip.
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Micraster is sometimes called the heart urchin, because of its distinctive shape .
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Yet it is structure which gives to any undertaking its distinctive shape and identity.
sound
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When running it had a very distinctive sound which quickly earned it the name of Put-put or Phut-phut.
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In language the basic units are distinctive sounds and words.
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A horse uses a number of distinctive sounds to communicate verbally.
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Both pieces combine the distinctive sounds of the New World flute with the more familiar tones of Old World instruments.
style
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So an illustration may offer far wider possibilities for the art director to achieve special effects and a distinctive style .
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The photographs were praised for their individuality and for their many distinctive styles .
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Besides such large and expensive works, Stanton produced a considerable number of relatively simple mural tablets, in a distinctive style .
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The results are poles apart in terms of character ... each room has a distinctive style of its own.
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As a talker, Mrs Cruz had a distinctive style .
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Meanwhile private inter-war suburbia had its distinctive style where the semi-detached house was dominant.
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Sometimes, quite independent of this influence, certain rural estates continued to practise their own distinctive styles of building.
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They gave themselves away by their distinctive styles .
type
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They come up against our distinctive types of personal defence and weakness.
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Each distinctive type should be subject to a rigorous set of explicit rules of discipline.
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As early as 1848-9 a new and distinctive type of station had appeared.
voice
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Drifting out of an open window, riding over a choppy bassline, comes the distinctive voice of Omar.
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To Bowman, every actuator in the ship had its own distinctive voice , and he recognized this one instantly.
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She had a fairly distinctive voice - certainly none of the women I met around the office today.
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But a tracheotomy throat operation which helped to save his life may have changed his distinctive voice for ever.
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It was also feared an emergency tracheotomy could have ruined his distinctive voice for good.
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Pretty Samantha Mumba sounded like she has a distinctive voice .
way
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The group shares a distinctive way of life, knowledge, beliefs, codes, tastes and prejudices.
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Life-style refers to distinctive ways of living adopted by particular communities or sub-sections of society.
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They may also share distinctive ways of communicating, such as a repertoire of sayings and in- jokes.
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However, they do so in a distinctive way .
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This distinctive way of working and developing women's Art Magazine reflects the organisation's aims and ambitions as a whole.
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These brachiopods are preserved in a distinctive way .
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Selvedges are more or less the same on all items, but the fringes are secured in a number of distinctive ways .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A black widow spider has a distinctive red hourglass marking on its stomach.
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Male birds have distinctive blue and yellow markings.
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The most distinctive feature of the building is its enormous dome-shaped roof.
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Whatever you think of Larkin's poetry, it's certainly distinctive .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A skyscraper would obviously be more distinctive than a low bulky design.
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It is a small species with a distinctive yellow stripe down its back.
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It was like a jazz class to some extent but with all the rather distinctive movements he had for his actual choreography.
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One particular strain lives only in the San Francisco Bay Area and gives the sourdough bread from that region its distinctive taste.
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The manufacturer makes products to match the retailer's specifications and these are labelled with the retailer's own distinctive label.
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The Provencale beef daube and the zucchini casserole, for instance, were decent but not distinctive .
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There is much evidence that the fluctuation field involves distinctive patterns of motion.
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These arrangements entrenched a distinctive land-owning pattern among the peasantry and perpetuated the peasantry's distance from other social estates.