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Definition
clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- Then he gave a low, distinct whistle.Chapter 13 (27% in)
- For some time, now, the boys had been dully conscious of a peculiar sound in the distance, just as one sometimes is of the ticking of a clock which he takes no distinct note of.Chapter 14 (54% in)
- Now a weird flash turned night into day and showed every little grass-blade, separate and distinct, that grew about their feet.Chapter 16 (65% in)
- Under the ceaseless conflagration of lightning that flamed in the skies, everything below stood out in clean-cut and shadowless distinctness: the bending trees, the billowy river, white with foam, the driving spray of spume-flakes, the dim outlines of the high bluffs on the other side, glimpsed through the drifting cloud-rack and the slanting veil of rain.Chapter 16 (76% in)
- His manner became less guarded and his words more distinct as he proceeded: "No," said he, "I've thought it all over, and I don't like it.Chapter 26 (37% in)
There are no more uses of "distinct" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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