Merit vs. Distinction
Meritnoun
(countable) A claim to commendation or a reward.
Meritnoun
(countable) A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
Meritnoun
Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
Meritnoun
The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
Meritnoun
Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
Meritnoun
The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.
Meritverb
(transitive) To deserve, to earn.
Meritverb
(intransitive) To be deserving or worthy.
Meritverb
To reward.
Meritnoun
The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
Meritnoun
The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.
Meritnoun
Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.
Meritverb
To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.
Meritverb
To reward.
Meritverb
To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
Meritnoun
any admirable quality or attribute;
Meritnoun
the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance);
Meritverb
be worthy or deserving;
Distinctionnoun
That which distinguishes; a single occurrence of a determining factor or feature, the fact of being divided; separation, discrimination.
Distinctionnoun
The act of distinguishing, discriminating; discrimination.
Distinctionnoun
Specifically, a feature that causes someone or something to stand out as being better; a mark of honour, rank, eminence or excellence; being distinguished.
Distinctionnoun
A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division.
Distinctionnoun
The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from others; exercise of discernment; discrimination.
Distinctionnoun
That which distinguishes one thing from another; distinguishing quality; sharply defined difference; as, the distinction between real and apparent good.
Distinctionnoun
Estimation of difference; regard to differences or distinguishing circumstance.
Distinctionnoun
Conspicuous station; eminence; superiority; honorable estimation; as, a man of distinction.
Distinctionnoun
a discrimination between things as different and distinct;
Distinctionnoun
high status importance owing to marked superiority;
Distinctionnoun
a distinguishing quality;
Distinctionnoun
a distinguishing difference;
