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Meaning of distinguish

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  distinguish
      v 1: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
           [syn: {distinguish}, {separate}, {differentiate}, {secern},
           {secernate}, {severalize}, {severalise}, {tell}, {tell
           apart}]
      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" [syn: {spot}, {recognize},
         {recognise}, {distinguish}, {discern}, {pick out}, {make
         out}, {tell apart}]
      3: be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a
         very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him from his
         peers" [syn: {distinguish}, {mark}, {differentiate}]
      4: make conspicuous or noteworthy [syn: {signalize},
         {signalise}, {distinguish}]
      5: identify as in botany or biology, for example [syn:
         {identify}, {discover}, {key}, {key out}, {distinguish},
         {describe}, {name}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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