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Distinguishable

adjective

Capable of being perceived as different or distinct. "A project distinguishable into four stages of progress" , "Distinguishable differences between the twins"

(often followed by 'from') not alike; different in nature or quality. Synonym: distinct. "The word 'nationalism' is used in at least two distinct senses" , "Gold is distinct from iron" , "A tree related to but quite distinct from the European beech" , "Management had interests quite distinct from those of their employees"

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"Distinguishable" Quotes from Famous Books

... debt. Every other man you met had a bill against the Reverend David Poindexter in his pocket; and as the day wore on, and still no tidings of the missing man were received, individuals of the sheriff and bailiff species began to be distinguishable amid the crowd. But the great sensation was yet to come. How the report started no one knew, but toward supper-time it passed from mouth to mouth that Mr. Harwood Courtney, in the course of his twenty-four hours of picquet with Poindexter, had won from the latter not his ...

— David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales • Julian Hawthorne

... and sou'wester, he stood by the after-companionway, intently examining through a pair of glasses the wallowing steamer to leeward, barely distinguishable in the half-light and driving spindrift. On the main-deck a half-dozen men paced up and down, sheltered by the weather rail; forward, two others walked the deck by the side of the forward house, but never allowed their march to extend past the after-corner; and at the wheel ...

— "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea • Morgan Robertson

... through the admirable chromo- lithograph, by Mr. Vincent Brooks (which is scarcely distinguishable from the original), and once sold for forty guineas as the original portrait. It has been traced ...

— Shakespeare's Bones • C. M. Ingleby

... The base of the pyramid is an exact square, each side being eighty-two feet in length. The perpendicular height appears not to be more than from fifty-two to sixty-five feet. This monument, like all the Mexican teocallis, is composed of several stages. Six are still distinguishable, and a seventh appears to be concealed by the vegetation with which the sides of the pyramid are covered. A great stairway of fifty-seven steps conducts to the truncated top of the teocalli, where the human victims were sacrificed. On each side of the great stairs is a flight of small stairs. ...

— Mexico and its Religion • Robert A. Wilson

... has in round numbers 13,500 pagan Malayans, most of whom are historically known as "Alzados" and "Tinguianes." These Tinguian ethnically belong to the great Igorot group, and in northern Bontoc Province, where they are known as Itneg, flow into and are not distinguishable from the Igorot; but no effort is made in this monograph to cut the Tinguian asunder from the position they have gained in historic and ethnologic writings as a separate people. The Province of Lepanto-Bontoc ...

— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks

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