tell apart Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb detect with the senses
recognize; spot; make out; recognise; distinguish; pick out; discern.
- The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
- I can't make out the faces in this photograph
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verb mark as different
secernate; severalise; separate; severalize; differentiate; distinguish; tell; secern.
- We distinguish several kinds of maple
