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📖 Определения и значения для слова distinction

📒 a clear difference or contrast especially between people or things that are similar or related

  • distinctions between traditional and modern societies
  • Philosophers did not use to make a distinction between arts and science.
  • We need to draw a distinction between the two events.

📒 the act of separating people or things into different groups

  • distinction (between A and B) The new law makes no distinction between adults and children (= treats them equally).
  • without distinction All groups are entitled to this money without distinction.

📒 the quality of being something that is special

  • She had the distinction of being the first woman to fly the Atlantic.
  • Fennel leaves add distinction to any dish.
  • Though they fought with distinction, they suffered heavy casualties.

📒 the quality of being excellent or important

  • a writer of distinction
  • She is a historian of great distinction.
  • She achieved distinction in several fields of scholarship.

📒 a special mark or award that is given to somebody, especially a student, for excellent work

  • Naomi got a distinction in maths.
  • with distinction He graduated with distinction.

📒 a point that somebody wants to suggest is a difference when in fact it is not different at all

  • His government did not brand them terrorists, but rather ‘an entity that supports terrorism’. That may prove to be a distinction without a difference.
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