distinction

In a sentence

Six example sentences with distinction, each labelled with its topic.

• The appeal rested on a fine distinction between owning a road and merely holding a right to cross it.

  Law

• Curators draw a distinction between a study made in the studio and a sketch finished outdoors in one sitting.

  Art

• Economists insist on the distinction between a fall in prices and a fall in the rate at which prices climb.

  Economics

• Ryle drew a distinction between knowing how to ride a bicycle and knowing that bicycles have two wheels.

  Philosophy

• Referees rely on a fine distinction between a clean block and goaltending, decided by whether the ball has started to fall.

  Basketball

• New savers rarely grasp the distinction between money set aside and money invested, though only one of them can shrink.

  Finance

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains distinction. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• network
• complement
• obtain
• edition
• constitute
• shift
• accurate
• funds
• visible
• sufficient
• transportation
• theory