Verb tell apart has 2 senses
- recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart - 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"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
--2 is one way to identify, place
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody
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