artificial distinction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofartificialanddistinction
These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withdistinction.
artificial
adjective
uk/ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/us/ˌɑːr.t̬əˈfɪʃ.əl/
made by people, often as a copy of ...
See more atartificial
distinction
noun
uk/dɪˈstɪŋk.ʃən/us/dɪˈstɪŋk.ʃən/
a difference between two ...
See more atdistinction
(Definition ofartificialanddistinctionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofartificial distinction
These 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.
That is anartificialdistinction.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
That would perpetuate theartificialdistinction.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
That really was a veryartificialdistinction.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
They are making a whollyartificialdistinction.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
That is a veryartificialdistinction.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
That leads to anartificialdistinction.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
That is a purelyartificialdistinction.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
This is a veryartificialdistinction.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Anartificialdistinctionhas been drawn.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
That seems a totallyartificialdistinction.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
This is not a question of the natural/artificialdistinctionbut is instead an issue about what we value.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In order to achieve this it was necessary to ignore theartificialdistinctionbetween macroeconomics and microeconomics.
From theCambridge English Corpus
They have made anartificialdistinctionbetween services and production.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
To a large extent, it is anartificialdistinction.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I am not drawing anartificialdistinctionabout public money.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
This is anartificialdistinctionand makes monitoring more difficult.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The amendment seeks to maintain anartificialdistinction.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Thisartificialdistinctionbetween income and capital must go.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Theartificialdistinctionbetween public and private is nonsense.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
There remains theartificialdistinctionbetween leisure and vocational classes.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
In religious matters, the separation of rights theory and scripture for any but the deist creates anartificialdistinctionnot used by contemporaries.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This ratherartificialdistinctionis difficult to reconcile with the principle that legislative language should follow the rules of ordinary language as much as possible.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In our more realistic model with a finite population we did not make anartificialdistinctionbetween major and minor outbreaks.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The failure to find robust frequency effects across items in this analysis suggests that the classification of items according to frequency is anartificialdistinction.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These 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.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofartificial
Go to the definition ofdistinction
See other collocations withdistinction