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Distinction
- noun - a discrimination between things as different and distinct; "it is necessary to make a distinction between love and infatuation"
- a distinguishing difference; "he learned the distinction between gold and lead"
- a distinguishing quality; "it has the distinction of being the cheapest restaurant in town"
- high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence"
Distinctive
- adjective - capable of being classified
- of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; "Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor"- Curtis Wilkie; "that is typical of you!"
Distinguish
- verb - be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him from his peers"
- detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- make conspicuous or noteworthy
- mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
- Recognising as different
Distractile
- - Tending or serving to draw apart.
Distracting
- verb - disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
- draw someone's attention away from something; "The thief distracted the bystanders"; "He deflected his competitors"
Distraction
- noun - an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations
- an obstacle to attention
- mental turmoil; "he drives me to distraction"
- the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something; "conjurers are experts at misdirection"
Distractive
- - Causing perplexity; distracting.
Distraining
- verb - confiscate by distress
- legally take something in place of a debt payment
- levy a distress on
Distressing
- verb - bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
- bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
- cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"
- causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"
Districting
- verb - regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns