tell apart

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verb

1. detect with the senses (Freq. 1)
- The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
- I can't make out the faces in this photograph
• Syn:
spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern,
pick out, make out
• Derivationally related forms:
discernible (for: discern), discernment (for: discern)
• Hyponyms:
resolve, discriminate
• Entailment:
perceive, comprehend
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. mark as different
- We distinguish several kinds of maple
• Syn:
distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate,
severalize, severalise, tell
• Derivationally related forms:
difference (for: differentiate), differentiation (for: differentiate), differentiator (for: differentiate), distinction (for: distinguish)
• Hypernyms:
identify, place
• Hyponyms:
know, discriminate, know apart, label, sex,
individualize, individualise, contrast, severalize, severalise, contradistinguish,
decouple, dissociate, demarcate, separate, single out, stratify
• Entailment:
compare
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s something from somebody