different between distinctive vs lineament
distinctive
English
Etymology
From Latin distinctus, perfect passive participle of distinguere (“to push apart, to divide”), + -ive (forming adjectives signifying relation or tendency to). Cognate with French distinctif and Medieval Latin distinctivus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??st??kt?v/
Adjective
distinctive (comparative more distinctive, superlative most distinctive)
- Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
- 1583, Philip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses, Fol. V:
- Our Apparell was giuen vs as a signe distinctiue to discern betwixt sex and sex.
- a product in distinctive packaging
- 1583, Philip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses, Fol. V:
- (rare) Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Vol. II, Ch. iii, p. 75:
- ...more judicious and distinctive heads...
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Vol. II, Ch. iii, p. 75:
- Characteristic, typical.
- 1856, John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Vol. III, p. 293:
- Wordsworth's distinctive work was a war with pomp and pretence, and a display of the majesty of simple feelings and humble hearts.
- his distinctive bass voice
- 1856, John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Vol. III, p. 293:
- (rare) Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
- 1867, Samuel Smiles, The Huguenots, Ch. xvii, p. 432:
- The refugees... at length ceased to exist as a distinctive body among the people.
- 1867, Samuel Smiles, The Huguenots, Ch. xvii, p. 432:
- (Hebrew grammar, of accents) Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
- 1874, Andrew Bruce Davidson, Introductory Hebrew Grammar, p. 27:
- These are the main distinctive accents, and by stopping at them... the reader will do justice to the sense.
- 1874, Andrew Bruce Davidson, Introductory Hebrew Grammar, p. 27:
- (linguistics, of sounds) Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
- 1927, L. Bloomfield & al., Language, No. 3, p. 129:
- Normally we symbolize only phonemes (distinctive features) so far as we can determine them.
- 1927, L. Bloomfield & al., Language, No. 3, p. 129:
Derived terms
- distinctive feature
Related terms
Translations
Noun
distinctive (plural distinctives)
- A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.
- 1816, Maurice Keatinge, Travels through France and Spain to Morocco, Vol. I, p. 189:
- ...the red umbrella, the distinctive of royalty here...
- 1816, Maurice Keatinge, Travels through France and Spain to Morocco, Vol. I, p. 189:
- (Hebrew grammar) A distinctive accent.
- 1874, Andrew Bruce Davidson, Introductory Hebrew Grammar, p. 27:
- A distinctive of less power than Zakeph is ?iph?â.
- 1874, Andrew Bruce Davidson, Introductory Hebrew Grammar, p. 27:
- (theology) A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.
- 1979, Theron F. Schlabach, "Gospel versus Gospel" in Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, p. 154:
- Mennonites could go forth somewhat detached from the chauvinism of Western culture—but not so from the Mennonite distinctives.
- 1979, Theron F. Schlabach, "Gospel versus Gospel" in Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, p. 154:
References
- “distinctive”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1896
- distinctive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- distinctive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.t??k.tiv/
- Homophone: distinctives
Adjective
distinctive
- feminine singular of distinctif
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lineament
English
Etymology
From Middle French linéament, from Latin lineamentum, from linea (line).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l?.n??.m?nt/
Noun
lineament (plural lineaments)
- Any distinctive shape or line, etc.
- A distinctive feature that characterizes something, especially the parts of the face of an individual.
- 1609, Thomas Dekker, The Guls Horn-Booke, London: J.M. Dent, 1905, p. 23, [2]
- […] onely remember, that so soone as thy eyelids be unglewd, thy first exercise must be (either sitting upright on thy pillow, or rarely loling at thy bodies whole length) to yawne, to stretch, and to gape wider then any oyster-wife : for thereby thou doest not onely send out the lively spirits (like vaunt-curers) to fortifie and make good the uttermost borders of the body ; but also (as a cunning painter) thy goodly lineaments are drawne out in their fairest proportion.
- 1791, William Blake, The French Revolution, Book I, 31-32, [3]
- […] a mask of iron on his face hid the lineaments
- Of ancient Kings, and the frown of the eternal lion was hid from the oppressed earth.
- 1923, James Stephens, Deirdre, London: Macmillan, Chapter VIII, p. 55, [4]
- But she could not wipe out the king's majesty with that sponge nor alter one lineament of the portrait she had taken ten years to limn.
- 1927, John Crowe Ransom, Dead Boy:
- A pig with a pasty face, so I had said,
- Squealing for cookies, kinned by poor pretense
- With a noble house. But the little man quite dead,
- I see the forbears' antique lineaments.
- 1609, Thomas Dekker, The Guls Horn-Booke, London: J.M. Dent, 1905, p. 23, [2]
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations
References
- lineament in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- alinement
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