tell apart

Found in thesaurus: identify, place

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tell apart
v. know the difference between, distinguish

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tell apart

Verb
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"
(synonym) recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out
(hyponym) resolve
(entail) perceive, comprehend
2. mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
(synonym) distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell
(hypernym) identify, place
(hyponym) know
(entail) compare


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tell apart
odróżniać (od siebie)

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tell apart
distinguish between two things or people It is hard to tell the two sisters apart.

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TELL APART
DISTINGUERE