v.
1 differentiate, discriminate, tell the difference, tell apart, determine, judge, decide, tell who's who or what's what:
He is still unable to distinguish between his own twin daughters.
2 classify, categorize, characterize, individualize, mark, identify, define, designate, denote, indicate, separate, single out, set apart; grade, group:
The male is distinguished by his brighter colouring.
3 sense, make out, perceive, discern, pick out, recognize, identify, detect, notice; see, espy, descry; hear; smell; taste; feel:
I could distinguish two people in the dark.
4 call attention to, identify, mark, set apart, separate, segregate, indicate, particularize:
She distinguished herself by her great beauty and her awful voice.
verb
ADV.
clearly, sharply | carefully | easily, readily
The adult can bereadily distinguished by its orangebill.
VERB + DISTINGUISH
be able to, can/could | be unable to | be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to, be possible to | be important to, be necessary to
It is important to distinguish between cause and effect.
PREP.
between
It is often difficultto distinguish clearly between factand fiction in this book.
| from
She could not distinguish one childfrom another.
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