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Meanings of distinctive in English

Of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing.

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        Capable of being classified.

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              1
              Lord help you if you're writing something a little less easily classifiable.
              The Irish Times
              2
              The combination becomes classifiable as the thyroid-pituitary type, or as the thyroid-adrenal type.
              The Glands Regulating Personality / A Study of the Glands of Int...
              3
              I'd been a lot happier when I believed Bill had some classifiable illness.
              Living dead in dallas
              4
              His works are classifiable, roughly, under three headings: History of Culture, Sociology, and Fiction.
              The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
              5
              If only I could feel like a cold-blooded villain, now, I would at worst be classifiable.
              Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
              Usage of distinctive in English
              1
              However, no information has been reported about this distinctive process until now.
              Pubmed
              2
              Some distinctive TEM ultrastructural features were also seen in the different cases.
              Pubmed
              3
              The choice of words was distinctive and the sentence structure more formal.
              American assassin
              4
              YG artists are seen as having especially distinctive styling among K-Pop artists.
              Reuters
              5
              They each left a quality behind; something distinctive and hard to catch.
              The gathering
              6
              However, a distinctive difference in pathogenic ability in neonatal mice was found.
              Pubmed
              7
              Marketing water in Ireland was entrepreneur Geoff Reed's distinctive achievement at Ballygowan.
              The Irish Times
              8
              But our focus remains providing distinctive, high-quality programmes valued by the public.
              The Guardian
              9
              Britain is littered with places that used to have a distinctive character.
              The Guardian
              10
              Buttery's distinctive acoustic style is clearly influenced by traditional South African instrumentation.
              The South African
              11
              A distinctive myopathy was observed in 24 children following influenza B infection.
              Pubmed
              12
              The work was described as being a very distinctive… Read more Audio
              Radio NZ
              13
              This classification marks in reality the distinctive characteristics of the Western Indians.
              The Great Lone Land / A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the...
              14
              Despite reports, there are no current plans to scrap the distinctive uniform.
              The Guardian
              15
              Several distinctive cytological features were observed in PBLs of the different subgroups.
              Pubmed
              16
              Minus: The distinctive colour scheme may not appeal, but can be changed.
              The Irish Times
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