Search Result for "tell_apart":
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. detect with the senses;
- Example: "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"
- Example: "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;
- Example: "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
[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]