tell apart

• tell apart

tell apart

Verb

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"

Synonyms:

• spot
• recognize
• recognise
• distinguish
• discern
• pick out
• make out
• tell apart

Verb

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

Synonyms:

• distinguish
• separate
• differentiate
• secern
• secernate
• severalize
• severalise
• tell
• tell apart