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Definition of Distinctive feature
1. Noun. An odd or unusual characteristic.
Generic synonyms: Characteristic, Feature
Specialized synonyms: Calling Card
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distinctive Feature
Literary usage of Distinctive feature
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"yield up every distinctive feature of the magnet, is su opposed by the hardness
of the steel bar. The lines are called lines of magnetic force, ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1860)
"The chief distinctive feature of this system is the duplication of every part of
the watch by machinery. Steam power is employed, and four-fifths of the ..."
3. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"The windows, in groups of three, form the distinctive feature of the architecture.
Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre stood in Portugal Row, or the south side of ..."
4. The Science of Jurisprudence: A Treatise in which the Growth of Positive Law by Hannis Taylor (1908)
"... law of the realm together with the system of local courts in which that law
had been immemorially administered. The distinctive feature of the Norman ..."
5. The Progressive Movement: Its Principles and Its Programme by Samuel John Duncan-Clark (1913)
"This is the distinctive feature of the Progressive movement's attitude toward
big business and all business. It does not propose to set an arbitrary limit ..."
6. Literary and Theological Review by Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon (1835)
"This system is frequently denominated Popery, from the peculiar and distinctive
feature in its government. And it is just as proper, as it is, for a similar ..."
7. The Homoeopathic domestic medicine by Joseph Laurie (1883)
"... irritation, or excessive irritability ; it is the distinctive feature, especially
after acute inflammations, of a vigorous operation of the heart, ..."
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