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Distinguish
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What's The Definition Of Distinguish?
[v] mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
[v] be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him form his peers" [v] identify as in botany or biology, for example [v] make conspicuous or noteworthy [v] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Distinguish: describe | differentiate | discern | discover | key | key out | make out | mark | name | pick out | recognise | recognize | secern | secernate | separate | severalise | severalize | signalise | signalize | tell | tell apart | tell apart Related Terms | Find terms related to Distinguish: adorn | aggrandize | analyze | anatomize | atomize | be characteristic | behold | bestow honor upon | call attention to | catch sight of | categorize | change | characterize | chop logic | clap eyes on | classify | confer distinction on | contradistinguish | decide | define | demarcate | demark | denote | describe | descry | designate | desynonymize | detach | detect | determinate | determine | diagnose | difference | differentiate | dignify | discern | discover | discriminate | disengage | disequalize | disjoin | diversify | divide | draw the line | earmark | ennoble | erect | espy | extricate | feel | finger | glimpse | glorify | grace | grade | group | have | have in sight | hear | honor | identify | indicate | individualize | individuate | judge | ken | keynote | know | know again | lay eyes on | look on | look upon | magnify | make a distinction | make out | mark | mark off | mark out | mark the interface | modify | nail | note | notice | observe | part | particularize | peg | perceive | personalize | pick out | pick up | pinpoint | place | qualify | realize | recall knowledge of | recognize | refine a distinction | reidentify | remark | screen | screen out | see | segregate | select | sense | separate | set a limit | set apart | set off | set the pace | set the tone | sever | severalize | sieve | sieve out | sift | sift out | sight | signalize | single out | smell | sort | sort out | sound the keynote | specialize | split hairs | spot | spy | subdivide | sublime | subtilize | take in | taste | tell | tell apart | twig | uprear | vary | view | winnow | witness See Also | assort | characterise | characterize | class | classify | compare | comprehend | contradistinguish | contrast | demarcate | discriminate | discriminate | dissociate | identify | individualise | individualize | know | know apart | label | mark | perceive | place | qualify | resolve | sex | single out | singularise | singularize | sort | sort out | stratify Distinguish In Webster's Dictionary \Dis*tin"guish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Distinguished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distinguishing}.] [F.
distinguer, L. distinguere, distinctum; di- = dis- +
stinguere to quench, extinguish; prob. orig., to prick, and
so akin to G. stechen, E. stick, and perh. sting. Cf.
{Extinguish}.]
1. Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make
distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to
mark off by some characteristic.
Not more distinguished by her purple vest, Than by
the charming features of her face. --Dryden.
Milton has distinguished the sweetbrier and the
eglantine. --Nares.
2. To separate by definition of terms or logical division of
a subject with regard to difference; as, to distinguish
sounds into high and low.
Moses distinguished the causes of the flood into
those that belong to the heavens, and those that
belong to the earth. --T. Burnet.
3. To recognize or discern by marks, signs, or characteristic
quality or qualities; to know and discriminate (anything)
from other things with which it might be confounded; as,
to distinguish the sound of a drum.
We are enabled to distinguish good from evil, as
well as truth from falsehood. --Watts.
Nor more can you distinguish of a man, Than of his
outward show. --Shak.
4. To constitute a difference; to make to differ.
Who distinguisheth thee? --1 Cor. iv.
7. (Douay
version).
5. To separate from others by a mark of honor; to make
eminent or known; to confer distinction upon; -- with by
or for.``To distinguish themselves by means never tried
before.'' --Johnson.
Syn: To mark; discriminate; differentiate; characterize;
discern; perceive; signalize; honor; glorify.
\Dis*tin"guish\, v. i. 1. To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle. 2. To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self or itself discernible. [R.] The little embryo . . . first distinguishes into a little knot. --Jer. Taylor. |
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