单词 Collocations with distinction 释义

Collocations withdistinction

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artificial distinctionThat is an artificial distinction.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0basic distinctionThe basic distinction is whether these languages are regular or not.From theCambridge English Corpuscareful distinctionThis requires careful distinction between association and causation.From theCambridge English Corpuscategorical distinctionThey are mistaken in assuming that we propose a categorical distinction between monologue and dialogue.From theCambridge English Corpusclass distinctionOur primary concern in this study is with the word class distinction between nouns and verbs.From theCambridge English Corpusclear distinctionHowever, a clear distinction must be made.From theCambridge English Corpusclear-cut distinctionThere exists a clear-cut distinction between will and be going to in their most obvious uses.From theCambridge English Corpusconceptual distinctionThe conceptual distinction was important.From theCambridge English Corpuscrucial distinctionThis objection overlooks a crucial distinction, however.From theCambridge English Corpusdubious distinctionMy constituency had the dubious distinction of being almost equally threatened by all the inland sites.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0fine distinctionIt is a fine distinction.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0fundamental distinctionSpatial location seems to be a fundamental distinction.From theCambridge English Corpusimportant distinctionThis is an important distinction.From theCambridge English Corpusinvidious distinctionI should be very sorry to make any invidious distinction in regard to the value of the services of any or all of my colleagues.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0key distinctionThis is the key distinction.From theCambridge English Corpusmoral distinctionThere was a seductive logic to claims of a moral distinction between compounders and personal ratepayers.From theCambridge English Corpusneat distinctionThese categories, in other words, do not fit in a neat distinction between formal and informal.From theCambridge English Corpusprecise distinctionIf we observe parts that are sufficiently smaller, a precise distinction between its thermal and mechanical energy loses its meaning.From theCambridge English Corpusrigid distinctionYou have already objected against a rigid distinction between a social world and an object world, and you defend an 'animation' of the past object.From theCambridge English Corpussharp distinctionSuch a sharp distinction is somewhat contrived.From theCambridge English Corpussubtle distinctionThere is a subtle distinction here.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org/collocation/english/distinction##