distinguish

v 1: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"

[syn: {separate}, {differentiate}, {secern}, {secernate},

{severalize}, {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: {recognize},

{discern}, {pick out}, {make out}, {tell apart}]

3: be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in

a very positive sense [syn: {mark}, {differentiate}]

4: make conspicuous [syn: {signalize}]

5: as in in botany or biology, for example [syn: {identify}, {discover},

{key}, {key out}, {describe}, {name}]