Distinction

First, is Pfizer’s distinction between its “limited” viral mutation experiments and “gain of function” or “directed evolution” research—the kinds of research that the company denies conducting—a difference without a distinction?

These triumphs were most notable in areas such as BTEC Sport & Music, where a remarkable feat was achieved: over 50% of students secured a Distinction * or Distinction, the highest achievement possible in the BTEC grading system.

It’s a fake distinction, but it’s enough of a distinction that I think Logan is slightly threatened by me and doesn’t know why.

More like a distinction without a distinction.

All went well and in 2008 he even became one of just 300 or so people in the world to achieve the distinction of becoming a Master of Wine, a massive distinction.

A distinction between such categories, in making the categories or applying them, is called an ontological distinction.

Distinction The sets of reserved words and keywords in a language often coincide or are almost equal, and the distinction is subtle, so the terms are often used interchangeably.

Falk rejects all concepts relating to hierarchy or distinction; she sees any distinction as leading to the acceptance of other kinds of distinctions, thus leading to prejudice.

Few languages make a phonemic distinction between a word beginning with a vowel and a word beginning with a glottal stop followed by a vowel, since the distinction will generally only be audible following another word.

He thinks the absolute/relative distinction should be recast in terms of an invariant/variant distinction, where there are many things a proposition can be invariant with regard to or vary with.

In some countries, there may appear to be a clear distinction between cooking plantains and dessert bananas, but in other countries, where many more cultivars are consumed, the distinction is not made in the common names used there.

It is not uncommon for non-Indo-European languages not to have a three way tense distinction, but instead to distinguish between realis (past/present) and irrealis (future) moods, and describe the past distinction using completive aspect.

She argues that the distinction between social pressure and physical force is morally and legally salient, comparable to the distinction between seduction and rape.

Some authors do not make a clear distinction between algebraic sets and varieties and use irreducible variety to make the distinction when needed.

Some philosophers and scholars believe that "unless a distinction can be made rigorous and precise it isn't really a distinction".

Sometimes, English has a lexical distinction where other languages may use the distinction in grammatical aspect.

The distinction between the noises with α near 1 and those with a broad range of α approximately corresponds to a much more basic distinction.

The distinction between what they see and what they calculate To avoid confusion, note the distinction between what each twin sees and what each would calculate.

The language makes distinction between read-time, compile-time, load-time and run-time, and allows user code to also make this distinction to perform the wanted type of processing at the wanted step.

There is some disagreement among grammarians whether to view the distinction as a distinction in aspect, or tense, or both.