Definition of Distinguishing
Distinguishing
of Distinguish
Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic.
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Characteristic,
Constituting,
Difference,
Distinction,
Distinctive,
Distinguish,
Else,
Everything,
From,
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Or,
Peculiar
Distinguishing Quotations
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
John Ruskin
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora Ephron
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
Martin Van Buren
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
Wilhelm Wundt
I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.
Anne Sullivan Macy
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.
Timothy Garton Ash
Distinguishing Translations
distinguishing in French is distinguant
distinguishing in German is auszeichnend, unterscheidend
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