In some legal systems some of these terms have distinct meanings.

In the modern English language, the term athletics has taken on two distinct meanings.

A few words have two different plurals with distinct meanings.

Threat modeling has two distinct, but related, meanings in computer security.

The word "love" can have a variety of related but distinct meanings in different contexts.

This is because the former term 'has a well defined and quite distinct meaning in physics'.

By the 1860s, the term science as having a meaning distinct from philosophy entered the dictionary.

Moral universe has two distinct meanings which are found throughout the literature.

Human Rights' has a quite distinct meaning in the international arena.

In competition, the term may have a distinct meaning.