[syn: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tell apart
v 1: 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" [syn: spot,
recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick
out, make out, tell apart]
2: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
[syn: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern,
secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell
apart]