A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.
A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.
A distinctive accent.
Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
Characteristic, typical.
Used to separate clauses in place of stops.