Startup investors are a distinct type of rich people.

When we think of animals and plants, we have a pretty good way of dividing them into two distinct groups: one converts sunlight into energy and the other has to eat food to make its energy.

He spoke out against the idea of white and black as distinct groups, claiming that these distinctions ignored the scope of human diversity.

But this third group was not only unexpected, it was so distinct and so large—nearly one third of our sample—that it became a key finding of the study.

It has a very distinct flavor.

More recently, as he reported in a 2012 review, lieberman has discovered that this region may be part of a distinct network involved in socially motivated learning and memory.

They live in 16 different communities and speak 16 distinct languages.