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Distinguishable   /dɪstˈɪŋgwɪʃəbəl/   Listen
Distinguishable

adjective
1.
Capable of being perceived as different or distinct.  "A project distinguishable into four stages of progress" , "Distinguishable differences between the twins"
2.
(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



... the three stages are often intermingled and not traceable with equal clearness in the life of every individual. Many men never advance beyond the first stage and others are fragmentary and undeveloped; but certain phases are more or less distinguishable in every well-endowed male individual. Lucka finds a perfect illustration of his theory in the life and works of Richard Wagner, whose operas The Fairies (based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure), Tannhauser, and Tristan und Isolde, successively illustrate ...
— The Evolution of Love • Emil Lucka

... of these is rime in its various forms. Rime is, in its most general signification, the repetition, usually at regulated intervals, of identical or closely similar sounds. According to the circumstances of the identical or similar sounds, four varieties are distinguishable: (1) alliteration, or initial rime, when the sounds at the beginning of accented syllables agree, as tale, attune; (2) consonance, when the vowel sounds differ and the final consonantal sounds agree, as tale, pull; (3) ...
— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum

... young aristocrat, in no way distinguishable from an Englishman except for a certain grace and maturity, reassured him. No doubt his wife would have cousins like this; clean, manly fellows who would take him shooting and with whom he could enjoy a game of golf. He thought that Kamimura must be typical of the young Japanese ...
— Kimono • John Paris

... Christians, as a dishonouring of God and of his Son, our Saviour; and which in its excess, an excess witnessed in the books of learned and sainted authors, and in the every day practice of worshippers, seems to be in no wise distinguishable from the practices of acknowledged polytheism, and pagan worship. If that foundation, after honest and persevering examination, approves itself as based sure and deep on the word of God, and the faith and practice of the apostles ...
— Primitive Christian Worship • James Endell Tyler

... gliding here and there; the old Spanish gentleman with the blood of Castile tingling in his veins; the graceful French dame in her becoming toilet; the Hebrew woman with her dark eyes and rich olive complexion; the pure Anglo-Saxon type, ever distinguishable from all others; and, swarming among them all, the irrepressible negro,— him you find in every size, shape, and shade, from the tiny yellow pickaninny to his rotund and inky grandmother, from the lazy wharf- darky, half clad in both mind and body, to ...
— Four Months in a Sneak-Box • Nathaniel H. Bishop


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