Synonymer

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (set phrase) A linguistic or conceptual distinction which is of no practical importance or which has no effect on meaning; a perceived difference where there is no actual difference.

Exempel

  • "'The Active Inquirer' is the present name, though when we supported Mr. Adams it was called 'The Active Enquirer,' with an E."
  • "A distinction without a difference; I like that," interrupted Captain Truck.
  • I said . . . I did not speak English at all—I only spoke American. He laughed, and said it was a distinction without a difference. I said no, the difference was not prodigious, but still it was considerable.
  • The fact that the sit-in convictions were under state rather than federal law, ruled last week's majority, is "a distinction without a difference."
  • "Obscene" is a higher standard than "indecent," although it seems like a distinction without a difference.
  • The Bush Administration attempted to distinguish the current case from Flast. . . . Judge Richard Posner, writing for the court of appeals, responded that this was a distinction without a difference. In the end, all money is appropriated by Congress.

Böjningsformer

Pluraldistinctions without a difference
Pluraldistinctions without differences

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