distinguish (
http://definr.com/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,
recognise,
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 form
his peers" [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]