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distinguish English

Meaning distinguish meaning

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distinguish

When you distinguish something, you are trying to make it easy to sort the item out. I can't distinguish Jan from Jane because their names are so alike.

distinguish

mark as different We distinguish several kinds of maple (= pick out, make out) 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 be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense His modesty distinguishes him from his peers (= signalize) make conspicuous or noteworthy (= identify) identify as in botany or biology, for example

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Simple sentences

Children can no longer distinguish hens from cows.
It is hard to distinguish you from your brother.
Can you distinguish silver from tin?
We cannot distinguish her from her younger sister.
The driver could not distinguish the signal in the fog.
You must educate your tongue to distinguish good coffee from bad.
The twins look so much alike it's next to impossible to distinguish one from the other.
I can't distinguish a frog from a toad.
Reality and fantasy are hard to distinguish.
Sometimes reality and fantasy are hard to distinguish.
It is hard to distinguish truth from a lie.
It is not easy to distinguish good from evil.
It is not always easy to distinguish the Japanese from the Chinese.
The journalist was too upset to distinguish vice from virtue.
No matter how we try, it is impossible to distinguish good people from bad people by outward appearances.
The twins are so much alike that I can not distinguish one from the other.
These days when I hear about these horrible incidents on the news I get the feeling that more and more young people are losing their ability to distinguish between real and virtual worlds.

Movie subtitles

Crazy people, Professor, do not have the ability to distinguish between what is true and false.
Sometimes a patient can't distinguish between reality and unreality.
He or she lacks insight. the ability to distinguish between what is real and what isn't.
Oh, no, Lord, if it be thy will, let me distinguish myself.
No more can you distinguish of a man than of his outward show. which, God he knows, seldom or never. jumpeth with the heart.
However, you state that you walked past a door, which is four inches of solid oak, you heard voices, and you are willing to swear that you could distinguish the voice of the prisoner, Leonard Vole.
At that time, do you believe he was able to distinguish right from wrong?
Doctor, you stated that the defendant might or might not have been able to distinguish right from wrong but it wouldn't have made a difference.
A gun doesn't distinguish the intelligent from the idiot.
In that we distinguish tremendous.
I can just distinguish your outline vaguely, but i can just see you.
Well, i suppose it is a demanding task- to distinguish between a bag full of garbage and an inventory of expensive stolen gifts.
Long before I could distinguish your face. I knew it was you.
So here you have. you have this strong, handsome, uniformed, bemedaled symbol of giant authority, and this insignificant librarian, and suddenly, in the eyes of god, there is precious little to distinguish us.
It was this big achievement that lead Kapteyn to first distinguish himself at that time.
I distinguish a true gentleman.
O Lord, if it be thy will, let me distinguish myself.
Iove is a state of confusion in which the victim cannot distinguish. between spiritual aspiration, carnal desire, and pride of ownership.
But I did distinguish some light yesterday, and it was the same test, wasn't it?
But how will I distinguish between the friends and the enemies?
However, you state that you walked past a door, which is four inches of solid oak, you heard voices, and you are willing to swear that you could distinguish the voice of. (QUIETLY).the prisoner, Leonard Vole.
I might be able to distinguish myself.
On the contrary, General. Iove is a state of confusion in which the victim cannot distinguish. between spiritual aspiration, carnal desire, and pride of ownership.
You can't distinguish between the trivial and the important.
You can clearly distinguish the man's movements and the gesture the young woman makes with her arm.
He can't distinguish between reality and his own imagination?
I don't think one can distinguish a thought from the words that express it.
How are we to distinguish them?
We must distinguish between attacks on individuals and bombings.
You better learn to distinguish rank.
I can distinguish a cannon from a thunder.
Let's say that if any of these men distinguish themselves. then we will give serious consideration to commuting their sentences.
Who's to say whether they really distinguish themselves or not?
But you distinguish betwen mand and woman!

News and current affairs

The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.
Nevertheless, in advance of November's presidential election, it is important to distinguish the forces that have shaped Barack Obama's foreign policy, and to assess his handling of them.
But we are not careful enough to distinguish situations in which equilibrium-restoring forces are strong from those in which such forces are weak.
Until a short while ago, I could certainly distinguish a computer from a human opponent.
But Europe must nonetheless recognize the need to distinguish clearly between partners, competitors, and opponents, and to formulate a more sophisticated and articulated policy towards Russia, in particular.
It is extremely difficult to estimate capital flight, both because the data are insufficient and because it is tough to distinguish capital flight from normal diversification.
On the logical slippery slope, you slide to the bottom and embrace the morally unacceptable because there is no way to distinguish it from an acceptable practice.
Democracy remains a worthy and widespread goal, but it is important to distinguish the goal from the means used to attain it.
But homo economicus was never intended to be used for forecasting; its real purpose is to make it easier to distinguish between market failures and mental failures.
Those who are immersed in a field have an established view of what is possible, based on some combination of previous successes, citation bias, current limits of knowledge, and truth - and it is often difficult to distinguish these sources.
The first task is to distinguish between what is feasible and what is not.
And, while one can be skeptical about Zionism as a historical project, to deny Israel's right to exist is hard to distinguish from anti-Semitism.
It is crucial to distinguish inequality in productivity among firms from unequal distribution of income within firms.
Several factors distinguish members of this group from the rest of the Iranian electorate.
Second, whereas democracy and market capitalism appeared as clear - if more fragile than expected - winners in 1989, it is difficult in 2009, with the spread of the global crisis, to distinguish winners from losers.
They will agree that our ability to distinguish right from wrong is something precious that we should safeguard, not a broken clock that scientists should fix.
In another move to distinguish her ingredients from Western versions, Kinyanjui also sells through grocery stores flour flavored with Amarathan, a green vegetable that grows around Kenya.
Analyzing these events much later, historians constructed elaborate typologies to distinguish between fascist and merely authoritarian regimes.
Here we must distinguish between national and international terrorism.
For example, they use return on equity as their primary measure of profitability, but neglect to distinguish between ROE and shareholder value.
Meanwhile, the already-hazy lines between asylum-seekers, refugees, displaced persons, and purely economic migrants are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish at all.
But the new leadership wants to distinguish between al-Qaeda terrorists and religious conservatives and disillusioned Pashtun youth within Pakistan.
Bodies like the European Commission increasingly distinguish between the structural and cyclical components of a budget deficit, and thus consider potential output, which increases with investment, in their calculations.
But how can we distinguish good banks from bad?

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