Meanings of distinctive use in English

Fiorini will tell you that each kind has its distinctive use.

Examples of the distinctive use of the two words:-

Culture rests on ideas rather than on knowledge; its distinctive use of knowledge is to gain material for ideas.

But the more distinctive use of the term in America is in the case of the brief "in error or appeal," before an appellate court.

I have frequently met with churches in Switzerland perched on the most romantic sites, though this is the first whose distinctive uses I have ascertained.