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Synonyms for distinguish
dɪˈstɪŋ gwɪʃdis·tin·guish
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
distinguishverb
The central idea of withdrawing makes abstract in common speech a euphemism for appropriate (unlawfully), purloin, steal. In mental processes we discriminate between objects by distinguishing their differences; we separate some one element from all that does not necessarily belong to it, abstract it, and view it alone. We may separate two ideas, and hold both in mind in comparison or contrast; but when we abstract one of them, we drop the other out of thought. The mind is abstracted when it is withdrawn from all other subjects and concentrated upon one, diverted when it is drawn away from what it would or should attend to by some other interest, distracted when the attention is divided among different subjects, so that it can not be given properly to any. The trouble with the distracted person is that he is not abstracted. Compare DISCERN.
Synonyms:
abstract, appropriate, detach, discriminate, distract, divert, eliminate, purloin, remove, separate, steal, take away, withdrawAntonyms:
add, combine, complete, conjoin, fill up, increase, restore, strengthen, unitePreposition:
The purse may be abstracted from the pocket; the substance from the accidents; a book into a compend.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
distinguish
Synonyms:
discern, descry, perceive, characterize, make famous, know, discriminate, see, discover, separate, divide, dissimilate, differentiate
Princeton's WordNet
distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apartverb
mark as different
"We distinguish several kinds of maple"
Synonyms:
tell apart, classify, discriminate, spot, mark, differentiate, sort, signalise, enjoin, split up, key out, evidence, tell, break up, divide, come apart, single out, part, state, pick out, order, carve up, key, severalize, split, assure, speciate, separate, fall apart, severalise, furcate, dissever, signalize, assort, specialize, recount, class, identify, make out, specialise, branch, discern, secern, recognize, recite, name, disunite, recognise, narrate, describe, break, sort out, ramify, fork, discover, secernate, sayspot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apartverb
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:
discern, bang, have it away, screw, acknowledge, recognise, deal, grapple, get along, choose, greet, make love, discover, do, jazz, key, love, roll in the hay, separate, cut, neck, be intimate, signalize, accredit, name, pick out, eff, bonk, make do, spot, bed, do it, mark, have intercourse, realize, make out, manage, have sex, tell apart, select, secern, take, fill out, fill in, have a go at it, key out, tell, agnise, describe, secernate, sleep with, agnize, blemish, identify, contend, issue, fleck, hump, get laid, severalize, descry, have it off, sleep together, get by, signalise, write out, spy, cope, recognize, severalise, know, come, get it on, differentiate, complete, blot, fare, lie with, espy, realise, blobdistinguish, mark, differentiateverb
be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
"His modesty distinguishes him from his peers"
Synonyms:
specialise, tell apart, punctuate, signalise, cross out, pit, spot, mark, commemorate, differentiate, speciate, key out, specialize, tick, nock, tell, strike out, notice, scar, score, brand, pick out, grade, key, severalize, strike off, separate, severalise, check off, cross off, signalize, tick off, pock, identify, make out, stigmatize, discern, secern, recognize, mark off, stigmatise, name, denounce, recognise, tag, describe, label, set, discover, secernate, note, checksignalize, signalise, distinguishverb
make conspicuous or noteworthy
Synonyms:
sign, recognise, recognize, describe, separate, discover, point out, signalize, call attention, key, mark, differentiate, spot, pick out, key out, severalise, signalise, severalize, secernate, identify, secern, tell apart, make out, tell, discern, signal, nameidentify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, nameverb
identify as in botany or biology, for example
Synonyms:
account, detect, chance upon, signalise, trace, let out, separate, place, secern, bring out, reveal, disclose, attain, let on, depict, cite, find, describe, get word, differentiate, fall upon, refer, strike, spot, report, nominate, make, pick out, see, find out, key, expose, bring up, give away, mark, break, appoint, severalise, tell apart, signalize, happen upon, delineate, list, divulge, identify, make out, come across, key out, observe, get a line, notice, recognize, line, name, pick up, call, mention, draw, discern, advert, recognise, tell, unwrap, constitute, learn, come upon, light upon, get wind, chance on, diagnose, discover, secernate, severalize, hear
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
distinguishverb
Synonyms:
characterize, mark, indicate by a mark, mark outdistinguishverb
Synonyms:
discriminate, discern, perceive, tell, knowdistinguishverb
distinguishverb
Synonyms:
signalize, make famous, make celebrated, make known, bring into noticedistinguishverb
Synonyms:
make distinction, show the difference
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
distinguishverb
Synonyms:
characterize, discriminate, differentiate, discern, recognize
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "distinguish":
differentiate, distinguishing, distinguishes, discriminate, discern, distinguished, discrimination, separate
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How to use distinguish in a sentence?
Marco Rubio hopes to distinguish Marco Rubio in the Donald Trump wars that have ensnared some Republicans by punching and pivoting — strike clean, precision blows and then immediately pivot back to Marco Rubio agenda and Marco Rubio view of what the race should be about. He does n’t play Trump’s game the way many of the candidates have.
The algorithms which power social media platforms as well as Amazon's recommendations are not designed to distinguish quality information from misinformation or misleading information, and as a result harmful anti-vaccine messages have been able to thrive and spread, every online platform, including Amazon, must act responsibly and ensure that they do not contribute to this growing public health catastrophe.
China may fill these out eventually but in the interim, when they are not all filled out, would The US be able to distinguish with certainty which silos are filled and which aren't and would we have to commit to destroying all of these no matter what ? If that is the case then The US has to commit maybe twice the number of warheads to all of the silos, if you are the US this forces you to re-think nuclear planning.
It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Translations for distinguish
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- تميزArabic
- отличавам, различавамBulgarian
- distingirCatalan, Valencian
- rozeznat, rozlišitCzech
- unterscheiden, erkennen, auszeichnenGerman
- distinguirSpanish
- distinguerFrench
- comharraichScottish Gaelic
- distinguirGalician
- הבחיןHebrew
- अंतर करनाHindi
- զանազանելArmenian
- distinguere, discernere, distinguersiItalian
- 感知, 目立つ, 区別Japanese
- განსხვავებაGeorgian
- onderscheidenDutch
- distinguir, diferenciarOccitan
- distinguirPortuguese
- distinge, recunoașteRomanian
- различить, отличиться, отличать, распознавать, распознать, отличаться, отличить, различатьRussian
- razaznati, разазнати, raspoznati, распознатиSerbo-Croatian
- seçmek, ayırt etmek, ayırmakTurkish
- phân biệtVietnamese
- 区分Chinese
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