All 4 Uses

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Flags of Our Fathers
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They told me the outlines of Ira's life; they remember the boy, but he was so totally self-contained they just shook their heads when I asked them about Ira's attitudes, his beliefs, any distinguishing traits.†
Chpt 2. *
It was during these final phases of training, in July of 1944, that a distinguished visitor began to make himself visible at Pendleton.†
Chpt 5. *
But for the first and only time the trustees of Columbia University suspended the rules "for this distinguished example," declaring "Joe Rosenthal's famous photograph of the flagraising on Iwo depicts one of the war's great moments," a "frozen flash of history" caught by his camera.†
Chpt 16.
He flew sixty-two missions in the Korean War, and won the Distinguished Flying Cross and four Air Medals before retiring with the rank of colonel in 1968.†
Chpt 20.

Definitions:

(1) (distinguish as in: distinguish fact from opinion)
recognize or treat as different
(2) (distinguish as in: her accent distinguishes her)
to set apart or to be an identifying characteristic
(3) (distinguish as in: the distinguished scientist)
seen or demonstrated as different -- especially as worthy of admiration
(4) (distinguish as in: distinguish a vague shape)
perceive something that is barely perceptible
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)