distinctive form

collocation in English

meaningsofdistinctiveandform

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distinctive
adjective
uk
/dɪˈstɪŋk.tɪv/us
/dɪˈstɪŋk.tɪv/
Something that is distinctive is easy to recognize because it is different from ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofdistinctiveandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdistinctive form

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Each of the clusters represents adistinctiveformof organizing online.
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It entailed the loss of adistinctiveformof wealth and endangered their autonomy.
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We treat team thinking as adistinctiveformof rational choice.
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That planned for music is similar to the 1995 programme, but with a greater understanding of the value of music education as adistinctiveformof communication and expression.
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Vermigli's views took the verydistinctiveformof double predestination (5-6) but the evidence does not unambiguously point in this direction.
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The new policies will contain indistinctiveformon their backs a statement of the benefits to which the holders are entitled.
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Thus, we have under consideration here adistinctiveformof savings organisation.
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It is adistinctiveformof funding and one which should be retained.
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That will progressively damage their ability to provide adistinctiveformof housing for those most in need.
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The fairest way to approach the subject is to regard a building society as adistinctiveformof savings organisation.
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I am in favour of adistinctiveformof corporation tax for different parts of the country.
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Their small size and historically more generous funding is likely to lead to the dilution or total loss of thatdistinctiveformof provision.
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This results in the steady accumulation of broad sheets of lava, building up the shield volcano'sdistinctiveform.
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In some cases, the reinforced concrete roof was sculpted to make thedistinctiveformof a pillbox less obvious from the air.
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Adistinctiveformof sloop was even developed to transport the granite to parts far and wide until the second decade of the 20th century.
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Among these points is one of thedistinctiveformknown as a bird point.
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It has nodistinctiveformbut it was named after the theme.
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This was a music magazine that provoked much discussion and attention, especially because the journalistic presentation had elements of adistinctiveformof gjglerisk absurdism.
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The blues progression has adistinctiveformin lyrics, phrase, chord structure, and duration.
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