tell apart

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tell apart - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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
         ]