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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. capable of being perceived as different or distinct;
- Example: "only the shine of their metal was distinguishable in the gloom"
- Example: "a project distinguishable into four stages of progress"
- Example: "distinguishable differences between the twins"

2. (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality;
- Example: "plants of several distinct types"
- Example: "the word `nationalism' is used in at least two distinct senses"
- Example: "gold is distinct from iron"
- Example: "a tree related to but quite distinct from the European beech"
- Example: "management had interests quite distinct from those of their employees"
[syn: distinct, distinguishable]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Distinguishable \Dis*tin"guish*a*ble\, a.
   1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible;
      discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a
      distance is distinguishable from a shrub.
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            A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is
            not distinguishable into different ideas. --Locke.
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   2. Worthy of note or special regard. --Swift.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

distinguishable
    adj 1: capable of being perceived as different or distinct;
           "only the shine of their metal was distinguishable in the
           gloom"; "a project distinguishable into four stages of
           progress"; "distinguishable differences between the
           twins" [ant: indistinguishable, undistinguishable]
    2: (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or
       quality; "plants of several distinct types"; "the word
       `nationalism' is used in at least two distinct senses"; "gold
       is distinct from iron"; "a tree related to but quite distinct
       from the European beech"; "management had interests quite
       distinct from those of their employees" [syn: distinct,
       distinguishable]