| tell apart | |
verb | |
| 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] |
| 2. | mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" [syn: distinguish] |
tell apart
Discern or distinguish, as in It's hard to tell the twins apart. [First half of 1900s]