distinct

英[d?'st??(k)t] 美[d?'st??kt]

副詞:?distinctly;名詞:?distinctness;

1. dis- "apart" + stinct-.
2. => separate by pricking.
3. => separate, discriminate.

distinct 清楚的

詞源同distinguish, 區分，分開。

distinct: distinct: [14] Etymologically, distinct is the past participle of distinguish. It comes from distinctus, past participle of Latin distinguere ‘separate, discriminate’ (source, via the present stem of Old French distinguer, of English distinguish [16]). This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘apart’ and the verbal element -stinguere ‘prick, stick’, and hence meant originally ‘separate by pricking’ (-stinguere, related to English stick and instigate, is not found as an independent verb in Latin in the sense ‘prick’, but stinguere does occur in the remote metaphorical meaning ‘quench’ – a development mirrored in German ersticken ‘stifle, suffocate’ – which lies behind English extinct and extinguish). Distingué is an early 19th-century adoption of the past participle of French distinguer.
=> distinguish, extinct, instigate, stick
distinct (adj.): late 14c., originally past participle of distincten (c. 1300) "to distinguish," from Old French distincter, from Latin distinctus, past participle of distinguere (see distinguish). Related: Distinctness.

1. The lighthouse beam was quite distinct in the gathering dusk.: 燈塔的光束在漸濃的暮色中清晰可見。

2. Editorially, they never really became a unique distinct product.: 就立場和觀點來說，它們從未真正做到樹立起自己獨具一格的視角。

3. Modern linguistics emerged as a distinct field in the nineteenth century.: 現代語言學在19世紀作為一個獨立的領域出現。

4. Engineering and technology are disciplines distinct from one another and from science.: 工程學和工藝學互不相同，也有別于自然學科。

5. Another Cup marathon between the two sides is now a distinct possibility.: 雙方很可能再進行一場馬拉松式的優勝杯比賽。