DISTINGUISH
\dɪstˈɪŋɡwɪʃ], \dɪstˈɪŋɡwɪʃ], \d_ɪ_s_t_ˈɪ_ŋ_ɡ_w_ɪ_ʃ]\
Definitions of DISTINGUISH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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identify as in botany or biology, for example
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mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
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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"
By Princeton University
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identify as in botany or biology, for example
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mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To constitute a difference; to make to differ.
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To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self or itself discernible.
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To separate from others by a mark of honor; to make eminent or known; to confer distinction upon; - with by or for.
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To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; - with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To constitute a difference; to make to differ.
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To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self or itself discernible.
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To separate from others by a mark of honor; to make eminent or known; to confer distinction upon; - with by or for.
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To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; - with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.
By Noah Webster.
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To separate from others by some mark of honor or preference; designate by special characteristics; see clearly.
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To make a distinction: with between.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To mark off, set apart: to recognize by characteristic qualities: to discern critically: to separate by a mark of honor: to make eminent or known.
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To make or show distinctions or differences.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To note as different; discriminate.
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To make eminent.
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To discriminate; followed by between.
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Distinguishable.
By James Champlin Fernald
