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distinct
in
Breaking Dawn, by Meyer
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- It was weird how distinct our joint thinking was.†
Book 2distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- At first he didn't answer, and then—shocking all the rest of us again, three distinct and separate gasps—he laid his ear tenderly against her belly.†
Book 2
- Their footsteps were so distinct, I could even tell that Carlisle was on the right, and a foot ahead of Alice.†
Book 3
- In front of it, I could see the dust motes in the air, the sides the light touched, and the dark sides, distinct and separate.†
Book 3
- I read his expression as I compared the indistinct human memories to this clear, intense feeling.†
Book 3 *indistinct = 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.
- And then I was aware of another audience when I heard Emmett's low, distinct guffaw, muffled a little by the glass wall between us.†
Book 3distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- I got the distinct impression that she was glad Seth had put himself in front of my spring.†
Book 3
- Alice did not see any trouble with my trip, but she was worried by the indistinct quality of her visions.†
Book 3indistinct = 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.
- It was only the distant memory of a dream—faint, transparent, indistinct as if I were peering through thick gauze.†
Book 3
- Their lessons reminded me of Jasper's fighting instructions to the others last June, though those memories were fuzzy and indistinct.†
Book 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(distinct) clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)