All 17 Uses of
distinct
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- So distinct.†
Chpt 11distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- Perhaps it should be added that the effect is greatly increased if Owen's verse be spoken somewhat slowly and indistinctly in a tone suggestive of suppressed rancour.†
Chpt 12indistinctly = not clearlystandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indistinctly means not and reverses the meaning of distinctly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- No need to dwell on the legendary beauty of the cornerpieces, the acme of art, wherein one can distinctly discern each of the four evangelists in turn presenting to each of the four masters his evangelical symbol, a bogoak sceptre, a North American puma (a far nobler king of beasts than the British article, be it said in passing), a Kerry calf and a golden eagle from Carrantuohill.†
Chpt 12distinctly = in a manner that is clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- BLOOM: (Indistinctly) University of life.†
Chpt 15 *indistinctly = not clearlystandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indistinctly means not and reverses the meaning of distinctly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- EDWARD THE SEVENTH: (Slowly, solemnly but indistinctly) Peace, perfect peace.†
Chpt 15
- Accordingly after a few such preliminaries as brushing, in spite of his having forgotten to take up his rather soapsuddy handkerchief after it had done yeoman service in the shaving line, they both walked together along Beaver street or, more properly, lane as far as the farrier's and the distinctly fetid atmosphere of the livery stables at the corner of Montgomery street where they made tracks to the left from thence debouching into Amiens street round by the corner of Dan Bergin's.†
Chpt 16distinctly = in a manner that is clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- Or do you mean the intelligence, the brainpower as such, as distinct from any outside object, the table, let us say, that cup.†
Chpt 16distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- On the other hand he had a distinct and painful recollection they paid his wife, Madam Marion Tweedy who had been prominently associated with it at one time, a very modest remuneration indeed for her pianoplaying.†
Chpt 16
- That was the talk of the town that year (Albert William Quill wrote a fine piece of original verse of 910 distinctive merit on the topic for the Irish Times), breakers running over her and crowds and crowds on the shore in commotion petrified with horror.†
Chpt 16distinctive = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate -- sometimes to indicate a difference that is excellent
- Ladies who like distinctive underclothing should, and every welltailored man must, trying to make the gap wider between them by innuendo and give more of a genuine filip to acts of impropriety between the two, she unbuttoned his and then he untied her, mind the pin, whereas savages in the cannibal islands, say, at ninety degrees in the shade not caring a continental.†
Chpt 16
- Besides he said the picture was handsome which, say what you like, it was though at the moment she was distinctly stouter.†
Chpt 16distinctly = in a manner that is clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- The crux was it was a bit risky to bring him home as eventualities might possibly ensue (somebody having a temper of her own sometimes) and spoil the hash altogether as on the night he misguidedly brought home a dog (breed unknown) with a lame paw (not that the cases were either identical or the reverse though he had hurt his hand too) to Ontario Terrace as he very distinctly remembered, having been there, so to speak.†
Chpt 16
- A phenomenally beautiful tenor voice like that, the rarest of boons, which Bloom appreciated at the very first note he got out, could easily, if properly handled by some recognised authority on voice production such as Barraclough and being able to read music into the bargain, command its own price where baritones were ten a penny and procure for its fortunate possessor in the near future an entrée into fashionable houses in the best residential quarters of financial magnates in a large way of business and titled people where with his university degree of B. A. (a huge ad in its way) and gentlemanly bearing to all the more influence the good impression he would infallibly score a distinct su†
Chpt 16distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- What distinct different memories had each of her now eight years deceased?†
Chpt 17
- There remained the generic conditions imposed by natural, as distinct from human law, as integral parts of the human whole: the necessity of destruction to procure alimentary sustenance: the painful character of the ultimate functions of separate existence, the agonies of birth and death: the monotonous menstruation of simian and (particularly) human females extending from the age of puberty to the menopause: inevitable accidents at sea, in mines and factories: certain very painful maladies and their resultant surgical operations, innate lunacy and congenital criminality, decimating epidemics: catastrophic cataclysms which make terror the basis of human mentality: seismic upheavals the epice†
Chpt 17
- An indistinct daguerreotype of Rudolf Virag and his father Leopold Virag executed in the year 1852 in the portrait atelier of their (respectively) 1st and 2nd cousin, Stefan Virag of Szesfehervar, Hungary.†
Chpt 17indistinct = not clear or easily identifiablestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indistinct means not and reverses the meaning of distinct. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an unoccupied bed?†
Chpt 17distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate