distinctとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈstɪŋkt/
• 韻: -ɪŋkt

形容詞

distinct (comparative distincter または more distinct, superlative distinctest または most distinct)

1. Capable of being perceived very clearly.
   • 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:

     The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.

   Her voice was distinct despite the heavy traffic.

2. Different from one another (with the preferable adposition being "from").
   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!‎^[1]:

     “Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant.

   Horses are distinct from zebras.

3. Noticeably different from others; distinctive.

   Olga's voice is quite distinct because of her accent.

4. Separate in place; not conjunct or united; with from.
   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, OCLC 937919305:

     The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct.

5. (obsolete) Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Wherever thus created — for no place / Is yet distinct by name.

6. (obsolete) Marked; variegated.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book VI, canto III, stanza 23:

     The which [place] was dight / With divers flowres distinct with rare delight.

同意語

• (capable of being perceived very clearly): clear, vivid; see also Thesaurus:distinct
• (different from one another): different, separate, several (廃れた用法)
• (noticeably different): characteristic, distinctive, prominent
• (separate in place): discrete, individual, noncontinuous, separate
• (distinguished): specified
• (marked): patterned; see also Thesaurus:marked

反意語

• (capable of being perceived very clearly): confusing, indistinct; see also Thesaurus:indistinct
• (different from one another): same, indistinguishable

派生語

• distinctly
• distinctness

関連する語

• distinction
• distinctive
• distinguish
• distinguished
• distinguishable
• distinguishness
• extinct

動詞

distinct (三人称単数 現在形 distincts, 現在分詞 distincting, 過去形および過去分詞形 distincted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To distinguish; to make a distinction.
   • 1788, James McHenry, letter to George Washington, 27 July, in The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections 1788–1790, vol. 2, ed. Gordon DenBoer, University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, page 109:

     Here every means is made use of to do away all distincting between federal and antifederal and I suspect with no very friendly design to the federal cause.

Further reading

• distinct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• distinct in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.