distinguish
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(verb) mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" |
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Synonyms: differentiate, secern, secernate, separate, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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Related Words: contradistinguish, contrast, demarcate, discriminate, dissociate, identify, individualize, know, know apart, label, place, separate, severalize, sex, single out, stratify |
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(verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense |
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Synonyms: differentiate, mark |
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Related Words: characterize, characterize, qualify |
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(verb) make conspicuous |
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Synonyms: signalize |
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Related Words: mark, singularize |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: discern, make out, pick out, recognize, tell apart |
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Related Words: discriminate, resolve |
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(verb) as in in botany or biology, for example |
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Synonyms: describe, discover, identify, key, key out, name |
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