DISTINGUISH

Definition:

1. [verb] mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
   Synonyms: separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
   
   
2. [verb] 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: recognize, recognise, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
   
   
3. [verb] be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him form his peers"
   Synonyms: mark, differentiate
   
   
4. [verb] make conspicuous or noteworthy
   Synonyms: signalize, signalise
   
   
5. [verb] identify as in botany or biology, for example
   Synonyms: identify, discover, key, key out, describe, name
   
   

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Related Words:

• know
• discriminate, know apart
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• decouple, dissociate
• demarcate
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• stratify
• resolve
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• characterize, characterise
• singularize, singularise