Synonyms:
discriminate
Meaning: marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; "discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
discriminate, know_apart
Meaning: recognize or perceive the difference
Synonyms:
discriminate, separate, single_out
Meaning: treat differently on the basis of sex or race
Usage examples
He had begun in a vague fashion to be aware of them both, could in a fashion discriminate between them, almost as if there really were two spirits in stubborn conflict within him.
The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. When the skips arrived at the giant rolls, their contents were dumped automatically into a superimposed hopper.
I dare not hope that purity like her's would stoop to unite itself with black, premeditated guilt: yet by heavens I swear, Belcour, I thought I loved the lost, abandoned Charlotte till I saw Julia--I thought I never could forsake her; but the heart is deceitful, and I now can plainly discriminate between the impulse of a youthful passion, and the pure flame of disinterested affection."