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: {spot},
{recognize}, {recognise}, {distinguish}, {discern}, {pick
out}, {make out}, {tell apart}]
2: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
[syn: {distinguish}, {separate}, {differentiate}, {secern},
{secernate}, {severalize}, {severalise}, {tell}, {tell
apart}]