Vocabulary
Distinct
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
recognizably different in nature from something else of a similar type.
Urdu meaning
واضح، صاف، منفرد
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- While Pakistan also grapples with illegal wildlife trafficking of mammals and reptiles, invertebrate commerce requires distinct regulatory frameworks due to its unique biosecurity and ecological implications.
- Another distinct characteristic is the intersection and symbiotic relationship between political and military elites.
- Moreover, Zionism, the nefarious doctrine that created and continues to drive Israel as a usurper of a peaceful people`s rights, is as distinct from Judaism as Hindutva is from Hinduism or extreme Muslim ideologies from Islam.
- In its 2007 judgement on Bosnia, the International Court of Justice affirmed that ethnic cleansing is distinct from genocide, defining it as rendering an area ethnically homogeneous through expulsion or intimidation.
- Adventurism that puts the lives of people living along the borders at nuclear-tinged risk is still a distinct possibility, and polarisation between societies a mass of 1.5 billion people will remain the norm.
Synonyms
clear, clear-cut, definite, well defined, sharp, marked, decided, unmistakable
Antonyms
indistinct, fuzzy, indefinite,
Curator example
“the patterns of spoken language are distinct from those of writing”
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