distinct entity

collocation in English

meaningsofdistinctandentity

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distinct
adjective
uk
/dɪˈstɪŋkt/us
/dɪˈstɪŋkt/
clearly noticeable; that ...
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entity
noun[C]
uk
/ˈen.tɪ.ti/us
/ˈen.t̬ə.t̬i/
something that exists apart from other things, having its own ...
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(Definition ofdistinctandentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A clinical disorder is adistinctentity, construed as a disease; it is either present or absent, depending upon whether specific diagnostic criteria are met.
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There has been considerable debate whether burnout is adistinctentityfrom depression.
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This question, steeped in the disease model, presumes thedistinctentity, organically based nature of such problems.
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The importance of recognizing thisdistinctentityrests in the fact that it can be readily repaired surgically.
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Structural information is typified by characteristics such as the density of notes in a passage, or the coherence of a run of notes as adistinctentity.
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The publication of a textbook is the next important step in defining this discipline as adistinctentity at the interface of behavioral medicine and sleep medicine.
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Each group would be adistinctentityand, in effect, it would be a collection of minorities rather than a team and no one could be held responsible.
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If what has been said today is read carefully, it will be seen that the pre-embryo is not, and cannot be described as, adistinctentity.
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First, those bundles of eight would have no common bonds ordistinctentitywithin themselves and would be difficult for the electorates to recognise as obvious units.
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Consequently, any analysis of economics as an analyticallydistinctentityisolated from its socio-cultural and political context is flawed from the outset.
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It is adistinctentityfrom the more common colorectal cancer.
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But a traffic jam is a separate anddistinctentitythat emerges from those individual behaviors.
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These were first recognised as adistinctentityin 1910.
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A gamelan as a set of instruments is adistinctentity, built and tuned to stay together instruments from different gamelan are not interchangeable.
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Although inextricably associated with these schools, it was adistinctentity.
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The general rules of contract, tort and unjust enrichment operate in the first place against the company as adistinctentity.
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The evidence for him as adistinctentityis scant.
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The idea that this set of symptoms forms adistinctentitybegan to attain greater recognition in the latter part of the 19th century.
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This requires organization as adistinctentity, and compliance with a tighter set of laws and procedures.
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