Synonym: define, detect, dignify, honor, see. Similar words: anguish, distinct, distinction, distinctive, existing, assist in, consist in, testing. Meaning: [dɪ'stɪŋgwɪʃ] v. 1. mark as different 2. detect with the senses 3. be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense 4. make conspicuous or noteworthy 5. identify as in botany or biology, for example.
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121 With paintings it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the genuine article from a good reproduction.
122 Here then were two criteria, language and place of birth, which men of different kinds employed to distinguish between nations.
123 Unfortunately, apart from the papers quoted above, little has been done to distinguish immature from adult digestive processes.
124 You can distinguish the bodies of the girls from those of the grown-ups.
125 A comparative approach will identify marketing factors which distinguish successful companies from less successful ones.
126 The Conservatives under John Major tried to distinguish themselves from their Thatcherite past by stressing a commitment to quality public services.
127 Nor did he distinguish clearly between practices in solo and tutti sections.
128 There are three characters called James in the New Testament,[Sentence dictionary] and it is often difficult to distinguish them in later legend.
129 This results from the fact that it is so difficult to distinguish deterministic chaos from highly random behavior.
130 However, Marxists distinguish two kinds of dissenting consciousness which can be fostered amongst workers by personal experience and by collective organization.
131 The last chapter dealt with one type of connectivity which helps to distinguish text from non-text, namely thematic and information structure.
132 The octopus, he discovered[sentencedict.com], could learn to distinguish such shapes and patterns and avoid those coupled with the unpleasant experience.
133 They fail to distinguish between wealth used to finance production and wealth used to finance consumption.
134 Also, as we have noted, we sometimes need to distinguish speaker from source and addressee from target.
135 In the last few years, nutritionists have begun to distinguish between two types of protein - animal and plant.
136 Salt ways present no special features that distinguish them from other roads and lanes on the map or on the ground.
137 He must distinguish snakes from eels, tortoises from armadillos, on the basis of the bones presented to him.
138 In considering patterns of morbidity both within and between populations it is usual to distinguish between acute and chronic health problems.
139 Tone languages use tone to distinguish words from each other.
140 The ensuing symptoms are often difficult to distinguish from those of an acute attack of asthma.
141 What we need is an objective test that we can apply from the outside to distinguish whether an organism has free will.
142 Frequently, urban employment rates fail to distinguish between those living and working in the cities and those commuting in.
143 It can recognise classes, and distinguish between them, and generalize from its training set, just like a perceptron.
144 First, we should distinguish general externalities from things that directly affect market structure and the degree of competition.
145 He could not distinguish her words but she sounded harassed and tense.
146 Ultrasound, which has been used for decades to distinguish fluid-filled cysts from solid growths.
147 Hugh Tait has taken the lead in trying to distinguish between fact and fiction when it comes to fakes and forgeries.
148 Clearly distinguish between primary and secondary sources, and between the different types of history books.
149 To gain a richer understanding of the problem of holism we must therefore distinguish it from the problem of determinism.
150 It was just possible to distinguish the darkened village below.
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