Discordant coastlines feature distinctive landforms because the rocks are eroded by ocean waves.

This feature is borderline distinctive in English, as in " wholly " vs. " holy ", but cases are limited to morpheme boundaries.

The most prominent feature of Crux is the distinctive asterism known as the Southern Cross.

Thus, this supposedly distinctive feature was easy to use, but had nothing to do with actual phylogenic relationship.

Another distinctive feature of the modern dagger is that it is designed to position the blade horizontally when using a conventional palm grip, enabling the user to slash right or left as well as thrust the blade between an opponent's ribs.

One distinctive feature that has caused a great amount of interest among linguists is what is traditionally seen as three degrees of phoneme length: short, long, and " overlong ", such that, and are distinct.

There are cultural commonalities between Esperanto speakers, which is a distinctive feature of a cultural community.

A distinctive feature of the Gospel of John, is that it provides a very different chronology of Jesus ' ministry from that in the synoptics.

Descriptive epithets are a common literary device in many parts of the world, whereas kennings in this restricted sense are a distinctive feature of Old Norse and, to a lesser extent, Old English poetry.

A distinctive feature of the Krag-Jørgensen action was its magazine.

A distinctive feature is the two prong, cutaway bow section.

A distinctive liturgical feature of Methodism is the use of Covenant services.

Another distinctive feature of the album was the orchestral passages that Evans had devised as transitions between the different tracks, which were joined together with the innovative use of editing in the post-production phase, turning each side of the album into a seamless piece of music.

This trade mark became especially distinctive in his fourth feature The Elevator ( 1999 ), and his fifth, The Bathroom ( 2005 ).

Interdependence: The distinctive feature of an oligopoly is interdependence.

This is a distinctive feature of the English legal system.

The distinctive feature of the crossed keys behind the shield was maintained.

Although attempts have been made to suggest that the sparr had a distinctive shaped head, illustrations and surviving weapons show there was considerable variation and the distinctive feature of the weapon was its long haft.

The distinctive feature of their rank insignia are traditionally stylized edelweiss ( image ).

A somewhat distinctive feature of Sorcerer is the fact that it is based almost exclusively on source code.

The most distinctive feature is the ultrabasic ophiolite, peridotite and gabbro on Unst and Fetlar, which are remnants of the Iapetus Ocean floor.

The comic strip feature of Doctor Who Magazine traditionally represents the ship's distinctive dematerialisation sound with the onomatopoeic phrase " vworp vworp ".

This tall bridge includes a glass covered pylon, which lights up at night, adding a distinctive feature to Toledo's skyline.

Their most distinctive feature and namesake are the yellow tufts () that appear annually on birds of both sexes as the summer reproductive season approaches.

The study of Greek was the distinctive mark of boys destined to go to college, and Lucy Upton too expected to go to college and take the full classical course offered to men.

The connection many of them had with the church was of the slenderest kind, consisting mainly in adopting the title of abbé, after a remarkably moderate course of theological study, practising celibacy and wearing a distinctive dress — a short dark-violet coat with narrow collar.

The efforts of ancient thinkers to determine what makes poetry distinctive as a form, and what distinguishes good poetry from bad, resulted in " poetics "— the study of the aesthetics of poetry.

In 1956 Gimbutas introduced her Kurgan hypothesis, which combined archaeological study of the distinctive Kurgan burial mounds with linguistics to unravel some problems in the study of the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ) speaking peoples, whom she dubbed the " Kurgans "; namely, to account for their origin and to trace their migrations into Europe.

These may organize into distinctive patterns which are currently under active study.

The university's distinctive profile reflects the aims of its founders: breadth of study and community atmosphere.

A recent neuroimaging study found distinctive patterns of neural activation in these regions depending on whether decisions were made on the basis of personal volition or following directions from someone else.

The distinctive feature of this course is the comparative study of both Islamic law and Common law.

The term " symbolic interactionism " has come into use as a label for a relatively distinctive approach to the study of human life and human conduct.

Although this demonstrated Landor's distinctive style of writing, it suffered from his failure to study the art of drama and so made little impression.

A Y chromosome haplogroups study published in 2005 found that " three main groups of Bosnia-Herzegovina, in spite of some quantitative differences, share a large fraction of the same ancient gene pool distinctive for the Balkan area ".

A cladistic study of the morphology of waterfowl found that the Magpie Goose was an early and distinctive offshoot, diverging after screamers and before all other ducks, geese and swans.

A cladistic study of the morphology of waterfowl found that the Magpie Goose was an early and distinctive offshoot, diverging after screamers and before all other ducks, geese and swans.

Jung developed his own distinctive approach to the study of the human mind.

Another molecular study of the eagles suggested that kienerii was distinctive enough to be retained in a separate genus for which the name Kienastur had been suggested.

An influential stylistic or stylometric study was undertaken by Cyrus Hoy, who in 1962 divided the play between Shakespeare and Fletcher based on their distinctive word choices, for example Fletcher's uses of ye for you and em for them.

Dr. Paul Lemoine of Nantes, France had already published a study in a French medical journal in 1968 about children with distinctive features whose mothers were alcoholics, and in the U. S., Christy Ulleland and colleagues at the University of Washington Medical School had conducted an 18-month study in 1968 – 1969 documenting the risk of maternal alcohol consumption among the offspring of 11 alcoholic mothers.

* A distinctive point in the epidemiological study of this outbreak, is that the outbreak was localized to this particular hospital and not observed in any of the other hospitals in the city of Benghazi.

" Each developed a distinctive but complementary style: Forster's songs were angular and angst-ridden, making much use of irony and unusual lyrical imagery, while McLennan's were generally softer and more sensitive, his lyrics often based on character study and reported speech.

The distinctive traditional Scots dialect of Chirnside and Berwickshire was the subject of a study by Swiss dialectologist Paul Wettstein, published in 1942.

Findings in favour of the stress hypothesis include a study in which distinctive room position affected occurrence of the disorder.

The tradition of keeping records of rulers survived through the ages and became a part of modern history and chronology, but in fact it appears as a distinctive field of study and independent discipline closely related to political science and legal studies.