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 traditional Pentecostal view is that every Christian should expect to be baptized in the Holy Spirit, the distinctive mark of which is glossolalia.

In this view, phonological representations are sequences of segments made up of distinctive features.

Biomedicine " formulates the human body and disease in a culturally distinctive pattern ", and is a world view learnt by medical students.

* A distinctive camera shot where the camera follows a moving object ( such as an arrow or a projectile weapon ) at high speeds creating a first-person point of view from the object itself ;

This view of the animal origins of distinctive human characteristics later received support from Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

The theories are distinctive from the point of view of the experimenter only ; their predictions are otherwise identical.

This castle has a commanding view of the historic city centre with its distinctive green-domed churches and intricate architecture.

It uses a distinctive non-chronological third person omniscient narration, describing events from different characters ' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot.

Robert Dennis Crumb ( born August 30, 1943 )— known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb — is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.

The need to laugh in the face of danger while battling the landscape has provoked a strange view of the world, with a distinctive upside-down sense of humour.

It was distinctive for its graphics, which ( under most conditions ) represented an out-the-cockpit, first-person view from a fictional combat spaceship traveling through a streaming 3D starfield in pursuit of enemy fighters called " Zylons ".

Aristotle shared Plato's view of multiple souls, ( ψυχή psychē ) and further elaborated a hierarchical arrangement, corresponding to the distinctive functions of plants, animals and people: a nutritive soul of growth and metabolism, that all three share, a perceptive soul of pain, pleasure and desire, that only animals and people share, and the faculty of reason, that is unique to people only.

Bähr's distinctive design for the church captured the new spirit of the Protestant liturgy by placing the altar, pulpit, and baptismal font directly centered in view of the entire congregation.

He describes it as an " ugly and distinctive Sixties skyscraper " and goes on to remark that " the view from the top was without compare, and, furthermore, the top of Centre Point was one of the few places in the West End of London where you did not have to look at Centre Point itself ".

Moran's view seems to be that what makes Moore's paradox so distinctive is not some contradictory-like phenomenon ( or at least not in the sense that most commentators on the problem have construed it ), whether it be located at the level of belief or that of assertion.

He contrasts this view with what he deems to be his own " naturalistic " perspective in which the distinctive capacities of mind are a cultural achievement of our " second nature ", an idea that he adapts from Gadamer.

Henri Pirenne's reputation today rests on three contributions to European history: for what has become known as the Pirenne Thesis, concerning origins of the Middle Ages in reactive state formation and shifts in trade ; for a distinctive view of Belgium's medieval history ; and for his model of the development of the medieval city.

However, the society that reduced, produces the Law of Jante, is distinctive in that it titrates down into an anticipation and direct refusal of the alienated party's claim to superior knowledge — not generally desirable from a comic's point of view.

Spencer's distinctive view of musicology was also related to his ethics.

He and many other semioticians prefer the view that all texts, whether spoken or written, are the same, except that some authors encode their texts with distinctive literary qualities that distinguish them from other forms of discourse.

These leaders, of whom Arthur Wallis, David Lillie and Cecil Cousen were at the forefront, focused on the nature of the church and shared a distinctive view that authentic church order was being restored to the whole church.

An extended terminal building was created by building a pre-fabricated metal structure around the front of the original Basil Spence building, hence screening much of its distinctive Brutalist style architecture from view, with the void between the two structures joined by a glass atrium and walkway.

It remains a distinctive feature of the view from the Connecticut River, and is one of the top three tourist attractions in the state.

Philosophy: New Right ideas were developed in the early eighties and took a distinctive view of elements of society such as family, education, crime and deviance.

A significant distinctive doctrine of the Church of God General Conference is denial of the personal pre-existence of Jesus Christ, but acceptance of the virgin birth ; a position in Christology historically known as Socinianism, although adherents of this view today often prefer the term " Biblical Unitarianism ".