Synonyms:
distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell_apart
Meaning: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
Synonyms:
spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick_out, make_out, tell_apart
Meaning: detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
Synonyms:
distinguish, mark, differentiate
Meaning: be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him from his peers"
Usage examples
"You, you, you," was all I could distinguish at first.
There was light enough to distinguish surrounding objects.
He could distinguish nothing more than the confused struggle.
That dogs clearly distinguish the return of Sunday cannot be doubted.
"By what sign to-morrow shall we be able to distinguish friends from foes?"
Such differences compel you to distinguish the world of dreams from the physical world.
There was a time when each man had a name of his own to distinguish him from all other men.
We are thirty sisters so exactly alike that our own father can hardly distinguish us apart.'
He can be asked to distinguish between a whistle, a little bell, and the clapping of the hands.
To distinguish one from another was difficult; impossible to tell whether they were old or young.