tell apart

v 1: 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},

{distinguish}, {discern}, {pick out}, {make out}]

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

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

{secernate}, {severalize}, {tell}]