Definition of distinction

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Distinction (n.) A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division.

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Ordinary :: Ordinary (n.) A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'hote; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room..
Name :: Name (n.) Reputed character; reputation, good or bad; estimation; fame; especially, illustrious character or fame; honorable estimation; distinction..
Hogging :: Hogging (n.) Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging.
Contradistinctive :: Contradistinctive (a.) having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast.
Thick :: Thick (superl.) Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance..
Return :: Return (n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south..
Hairsplitting :: Hairsplitting (a.) Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle.
Plant :: Plant (n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth..
Proportion :: Proportion (n.) The equality or similarity of ratios, especially of geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the third divided by the fourth; -- called also geometrical proportion, in distinction from arithmetical proportion, or that in which the difference of the first and second is equal to the difference of the third and fourth..
Land :: Land (n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands..
Nonsexual :: Nonsexual (a.) Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.
Sever :: Sever (v. i.) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
Varietal :: Varietal (a.) Of or pertaining to a variety; characterizing a variety; constituting a variety, in distinction from an individual or species..
Title :: Title (n.) An appellation of dignity, distinction, or preeminence (hereditary or acquired), given to persons, as duke marquis, honorable, esquire, etc..
Incelebrity :: Incelebrity (n.) Want of celebrity or distinction; obscurity.
Metagenesis :: Metagenesis (n.) Alternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; -- in distinction from heterogamy.
Undistinctive :: Undistinctive (a.) Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial.
Moral :: Moral (a.) Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life..
Excavation :: Excavation (n.) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel..
Force Pump :: Force pump () A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston..
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