Distinguish

What do we mean by distinguish?

To perceive as being different or distinct. intransitive verb

To perceive distinctly; discern. intransitive verb

To demonstrate or describe as being different or distinct. intransitive verb

To be an identifying characteristic of; make noticeable or different. intransitive verb

To cause (oneself) to be respected or eminent. intransitive verb

To perceive or indicate differences; discriminate. intransitive verb

To mark or note in a way to indicate difference; mark as distinct or different; characterize; indicate the difference of.

To recognize as different or distinct from what is contiguous or similar; perceive or discover the differences or characteristic marks or qualities of; recognize by some distinctive mark; know or ascertain difference in through the senses or the understanding; perceive or make out.

Hence To establish, state, or explain a difference or the differences between two or more things; separate by classification or definition; discriminate; set off or apart.

To discern critically; judge.

To separate from others by some mark of honor or preference; treat with distinction or honor; make eminent or superior; give distinction to.

To make a distinction; find or show a difference: followed by between.

To become distinct or distinguishable; become differentiated.

To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between. intransitive verb

To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self or itself discernible. intransitive verb

Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic. transitive verb

To separate by definition of terms or logical division of a subject with regard to difference. transitive verb

To recognize or discern by marks, signs, or characteristic quality or qualities; to know and discriminate (anything) from other things with which it might be confounded. transitive verb

To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics.

To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.

To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.

To make to differ.

To discern; to detect with the eyes or with the other sences. Urban Dictionary

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The active tense of distinguishing between persons, places, or things Urban Dictionary

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Something that distinguishes fire Urban Dictionary

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To point out one's differences Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to distinguish:
distinguish, restinguish, distinguos.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word distinguish:
consonants, plural, nouns, singular, vowel, kinds, diagnosis, distinction, themselves, types, varieties, differences, colors, sounds, distinct.

Words that rhyme with distinguish:
extinguish.

Adjectives that are often used to describe distinguish:
differential, objective.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective distinguish:
form, fact, differences, words, facts, news, tribe, types, mediate, disorders, perfect, wisdom, cases, kinds, ways, degrees, sentences, phrases, outs, briefly, value, wages, principal, fluids, morning, from, capital, anterior, control, sleep, forms, nouns, pain, feeling, gems, classification, reflex, intent, observation, force, expenses, imagination, arbitration, boundaries, real, sale, periods, questions, liability, induction, varieties, cause, development, pardon, effects, books, meanings, functions, activities, evening, power, means, wires, assets, jobs, vocabularies, concepts, statements, bailment, names, characteristics, change, creosote, prerogatives, belief, guardian, problems, levels, purpose, instinct, definition, institutions, morality.

Words that sound like distinguish:
distinguish, distinguished, distinguisher, distinguishing, distinguishes, restinguish, extinguish, distinctive, undistinguished, distinctio, distingue, indistinguished, misdistinguish.