{
    "term": "distinct",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "easily or clearly heard, seen, felt, etc.",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There was a distinct smell of gas."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His voice was quiet but every word was distinct."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "clearly different or of a different kind",
            "sensetop": "distinct from something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The results of the survey fell into two distinct groups."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Jamaican reggae music is quite distinct from North American jazz or blues.",
                    "contextForm": "distinct from something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are talking about rural areas, **as distinct from **major cities."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Political power should be regarded as analytically distinct from economic power."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was studying lung cancer, as distinct from other types of cancer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The various dialects are quite distinct from one another."
                },
                {
                    "text": "geographically distinct regions"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Manufacturers hope their new products will be sufficiently distinct to command higher prices."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "appear", "become"],
                "adverb": ["very", "completely", "entirely"],
                "preposition": ["from"],
                "phrases": ["as distinct from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "used to emphasize that you think an idea or situation definitely exists and is important",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Being tall gave Tony a distinct advantage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had the distinct impression I was being watched."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A strike is now a distinct possibility."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "definite"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɪŋkt/",
                "audio": "di/distinct/distinct__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɪŋkt/",
                "audio": "di/distinct/distinct__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘differentiated’): from Latin distinctus ‘separated, distinguished’, from the verb distinguere, from dis- ‘apart’ + stinguere ‘put out’."
}