distinguishing feature
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdistinguishingandfeature
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distinguishing
adjective
uk/dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪ.ʃɪŋ/us/dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪ.ʃɪŋ/
A distinguishing mark or feature is one that makes someone or something different from similar people ...
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feature
noun
uk/ˈfiː.tʃər/us/ˈfiː.tʃɚ/
a typical quality or an important part ...
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(Definition ofdistinguishingandfeaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thedistinguishingfeatureof the infection in this colony was that infections were seen in younger dogs than normal.
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Is accent alone adistinguishingfeatureor are features of grammar and lexis also included.
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Another obviousdistinguishingfeatureis the way pronunciation is specified (see under fagade).
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The thirddistinguishingfeatureof dusty plasmas is also associated with the large size of the dust grains.
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Thedistinguishingfeatureof such a nonlinear wave is the absence of the resonant particles trapped by the wave.
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His words identify thedistinguishingfeatureof intellectual history as a discipline.
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The otherdistinguishingfeatureof the 1946 riot was its organized nature.
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The maindistinguishingfeatureof such approaches is that they allow for more sophisticated forms of interaction than their game-theoretic and heuristic counterparts.
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Theirdistinguishingfeatureis the reduced coherence between temperature and velocity.
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I have suggested that adistinguishingfeatureof ethics is that ethical judgments are universalisable.
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Indeed, there is a reading of the doctrine of sufficiency whose chiefdistinguishingfeatureis that it rejects the egalitarian and the semi-egalitarian conditionals.
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Adistinguishingfeatureof complex nervous systems is their ability to transmit nerve impulses rapidly by saltatory conduction.
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Thedistinguishingfeatureof those emissions is that their contribution to global warming occurs regardless of the location on the globe of the coal-burning activity.
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The maindistinguishingfeatureis the lock of blond hair, which appears only in the right-eye image.
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We noted earlier that cognitive plasticity seems adistinguishingfeatureof the human species.
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The primarydistinguishingfeatureof these systems from other agent systems is the high interactivity between these expert assistants and their human users.
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Adistinguishingfeatureof drama - certainly one of the genres from which film inherits - is conflict.
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Linearity is thedistinguishingfeatureof their enunciative pattern, through the inclusion of a date and of rigorously chronological entries.
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Adistinguishingfeatureof the present study is its ability to demonstrate such a mediation using long-term prospective data with frequent assessments.
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Anotherdistinguishingfeatureis how the habit stock affects utility.
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