distinguish
— Verb
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~ identify as in botany or biology, for example
distinguish
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~ detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
distinguish
— Verb
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~ make conspicuous or noteworthy
distinguishable
— Adjective
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~ (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality; "plants of several distinct types"; "the word `nationalism' is used in at least two distinct senses"; "gold is distinct from iron"; "a tree related to but quite distinct from the European beech"; "management had interests quite distinct from those of their employees"
distinguishable
— Adjective
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~ capable of being perceived as different or distinct; "only the shine of their metal was distinguishable in the gloom"; "a project distinguishable into four stages of progress"; "distinguishable differences between the twins"
distinguished
— Adjective
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~ (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation; "our distinguished professor"
distinguished
— Adjective
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~ used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"
distomatosis
— Noun
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~ a disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products
distort
— Verb
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~ twist and press out of shape
distort
— Verb
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~ make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
distort
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~ alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
distort
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~ affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
distort
— Verb
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~ form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted"
distortable
— Adjective
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~ capable of having the meaning altered or twisted; "our words are distortable things--as in a crooked mirror held up to nature"
distorted
— Adjective
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~ having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem"
distorted
— Adjective
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~ so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot"; "misshapen old fingers"
distortion
— Noun
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~ the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean