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List of meaning for distinguish

to recognize something or someone as being unique

distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart(verb)

mark as different

"We distinguish several kinds of maple"

spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart(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"

distinguish, mark, differentiate(verb)

be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense

"His modesty distinguishes him from his peers"

signalize, signalise, distinguish(verb)

make conspicuous or noteworthy

identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name(verb)

identify as in botany or biology, for example

to understand or point out the difference in

even at such a young age, he could distinguish the calls of various birds

to be an important feature of

a collection of recipes distinguished by their ease and simplicity

to find out or establish the identity of

learned at an early age to distinguish the sound of a piano in an orchestra

to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes

could barely distinguish the garden gate through the mist

to arrange or assign according to type

on the exam we were asked to distinguish the specimens by acidity

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