Meaning

• A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.

• (Hebrew grammar) A distinctive accent.

• A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.

Meaning

• Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.

  "a product in distinctive packaging"

• Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.

• Characteristic, typical.

  "his distinctive bass voice"

• Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.

• (Hebrew grammar, of accents) Used to separate clauses in place of stops.

• (of sounds) Distinguishing a particular sense of word.