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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]