Word Finder - distinguished

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To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics.

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To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.

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To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.

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The soldier distinguished himself in combat and received a medal.

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To make to differ.

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Celebrated, well-known or eminent because of past achievements; prestigious

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The lecture was attended by many distinguished mathematicians.

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Having a dignified appearance or demeanor

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Her father was a distinguished gentleman, albeit a poor one.

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Specified, noted.

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Let X be a topological space with a distinguished point p.

He's a Spanish gentleman, very distinguished looking.

One morning a distinguished looking Spanish man was walking out of the room as she entered.

He looked even more distinguished than usual in his Spanish garb.

The two distinguished authors were very gentle and kind, and I could not tell which of them I loved best.

He looks so distinguished.

These teeth are distinguished as "intermediate" molars.

He distinguished himself as a journalist on El Tribuno.

In the Italian Renaissance, people of wealth distinguished themselves by their altruistic endeavors.

Her father objected to this because he wanted a more distinguished and wealthier match for Andrew.

Giovan Vincenzo Gravina wrote a history of Roman law, specially distinguished for its accuracy and elegance.

Four main processes may be distinguished.

He was provost of Edinburgh in 1437, and was otherwise distinguished.

He was wounded at Wagram, and distinguished during the operations in Italy in 1813 and 1814.

The order is easily distinguished by the hard, dry, woody texture of the leaves and the dehiscent fruits.

The distinguished after writers, whom we have to regard as repeating in essence pre-Kantian theories, generally know Kant, and frequently show traces of him in detail.

These blocks are distinguished, after the American fashion, by letters and numerals.

The plane of the optic axes may be either perpendicular or parallel to the plane of symmetry of the crystal, and according to its position two classes of mica are distinguished.

Its members will be distinguished by a red ribbon worn across the shoulder, and the mayor of the city will wear a white belt as well.

This two-level eatery has a distinguished second-level dinning section as well as a fully stocked bar and lounge area.

But when does the pope speak ex cathedra, and how is it to be distinguished when he is exercising his infallibility?

In times of peace the carroccio was in the keeping of some great family which had distinguished itself by signal services to the republic.

On his return to Paris he soon became distinguished as a painter, and was employed by Louis XIV.

Few distinguished men, indeed, have had a less eventful life.

During his father's lifetime he had greatly distinguished himself by his administration of Transylvania, then a wilderness, which, with incredible patience and energy, he colonized and christianized.

Yet some of his earlier productions are distinguished by classical terseness."

After the outbreak of war with the French republic in 1793, he distinguished himself in the struggle against the revolutionary army under Dumouriez by the capture of Landrecies and the relief of Charleroi.

Two such folds maybe distinguished, corresponding on a smaller scale to the belt of alpine tracts which fringe the plateau on the north-west.

They speak the Buriat language as often as Russian, and in a Buriat dress can hardly be distinguished from the Buriats.

The church, which stands inland in the old village distinguished as Upper Dovercourt, is Early English and later; it formerly possessed a miraculous rood which became an object of pilgrimage of wide repute.

This conception of will, though consistent and convenient to the main thesis, must be rigidly distinguished from the ordinary significance of will, i.e.

In two campaigns, distinguished by rapidity of movement, he met and defeated his opponents in six battles.

They are distinguished by having one of the five blue or yellow coloured sepals (the posterior one) in the form of a helmet; hence the English name monkshood.

Cicero was on friendly terms with both him and Roscius, the equally distinguished comedian, and did not disdain to profit by their instruction.

The poles of a piece of magnetized steel may be at once distinguished if the two ends are successively presented to the compass; that end which attracts the south pole of the compass needle (and is therefore north) may be marked for easy identification.

At the same time he was being tutored in law by Savigny and in finance by a series of distinguished masters.

It is probable that certain privileges of the equites were due to Gracchus; that of wearing the gold ring, hitherto reserved for senators; that of special seats in the theatre, subsequently withdrawn (probably by Sulla) and restored by the lex Othonis (67 B.C.); the narrow band of purple on the tunic as distinguished from the broad band worn by the senators.

The arterial system is very completely developed in both Limulus and Scorpio, branching repeatedly until minute arterioles are formed, not to be distinguished from true capillaries; FIG.

He distinguished himself as a statesman at the Assembly of Notables at Fontainebleau in 1560, when he delivered an exceedingly brilliant discourse, in which he opposed the policy of violence and demanded a national council and the assembly of the states general.

Nominated president of the Academical commission for the reform of weights and measures, his services were retained when its "purification" by the Jacobins removed his most distinguished colleagues.

Different substances were distinguished by the name of "alumen"; but they were all characterized by a certain degree of astringency, and were all employed in dyeing and medicine, the light-coloured alumen being useful in brilliant dyes, the dark-coloured only in dyeing black or very dark colours.

The two ratels may be distinguished by the fact that the African species has a distinct white line round the body at the junction of the grey of the upper side with the black of the lower, while in the Indian this line is absent; the teeth also of the former are larger, rounder and, heavier than those of the latter.

He was surrounded by a patriarchal establishment of wives and children; and to him most of the distinguished families of Bahia still trace their lineage.

In a profligate age William was distinguished by the purity of his married life, by temperate habits and by a sincere piety.

Australia has P. conspicillatus, easily distinguished by its black tail and wingcoverts.

As a senator he stood in the front rank in a body distinguished for ability; his purity of character and courteous manner, together with his intellectual gifts, won him the esteem of all parties; and he became more and more the leader of the Southern Democrats.

The straw of Tuscany, specially grown for plaiting, is distinguished into three qualities - Pontederas Semone being the finest, Mazzuolo the second quality, from which the bulk of the plaits are made, while from the third quality, Santa Fioro, only "Tuscan pedals" and braids are plaited.

Lord Palmerston offered him a baronetcy and a seat in the privy council, and the emperor of the French would gladly have conferred upon him some distinguished mark of his favour.

His public life after this event was only distinguished by one act of importance.

As writers of didactic poetry may be mentioned John Endrody, Caspar Gobol, Joseph Takacs and Barbara Molnar, the earliest distinguished Magyar poetess.

He has no claim to be regarded as a genius; but, as SainteBeuve has said, he well deserves a place "da p s la classe des esprits infiniment distingues" - distinguished, however, it ought to be added by intelligence rather than by intellect, and less by the power of saying much than by the power of saying a little well.