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distinguish
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distinguish
v.
mark as different; see as different; differentiate; discern, recognize
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Distinguishing
In law, to distinguish a case means a court decides the holding or legal reasoning of a precedent case will not apply due to materially different facts between the two cases. There are two formal constraints on the later court: the factors in the ratio of the earlier case must be retained in formulating the ratio of the later case, and the ruling in the later case must still support the result reached in the precedent case.
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distinguish
Verb
1. mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
(synonym) separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
(hypernym) identify, place
(hyponym) know
(entail) compare
(derivation) differentiation, distinction
2. 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, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
(hyponym) resolve
(entail) perceive, comprehend
3. be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him form his peers"
(synonym) mark, differentiate
(hypernym) qualify, characterize, characterise
(hyponym) characterize, characterise
(verb-group) mark
4. make conspicuous or noteworthy
(synonym) signalize, signalise
(hypernym) mark
(hyponym) singularize, singularise
5. identify as in botany or biology, for example
(synonym) identify, discover, key, key out, describe, name
(entail) classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate
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distinguish
v.
rozlišit; rozeznat; odlišit; rozpoznat; vyznamenat se
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distinguish
Czas.
rozróżniać; odróżniać; wyróżniać; znamionować; rozpoznawać; zauważać; wyróżniać się
