TELL APART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tell apart mean? 

• TELL APART (verb)
  The verb TELL APART has 2 senses:

1. detect with the senses

2. mark as different

  Familiarity information: TELL APART used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELL APART (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Detect with the senses

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

discern; distinguish; make out; pick out; recognise; recognize; spot; tell apart

Context example:

I can't make out the faces in this photograph

"Tell apart" entails doing...:

comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tell apart"):

resolve (make clearly visible)

discriminate (distinguish)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mark as different

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

differentiate; distinguish; secern; secernate; separate; severalise; severalize; tell; tell apart

Context example:

We distinguish several kinds of maple

Hypernyms (to "tell apart" is one way to...):

identify; place (recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something)

"Tell apart" entails doing...:

compare (examine and note the similarities or differences of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tell apart"):

know (be able to distinguish, recognize as being different)

discriminate; know apart (recognize or perceive the difference)

label (distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions)

label (distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom)

sex (tell the sex (of young chickens))

individualise; individualize (make or mark or treat as individual)

contrast (put in opposition to show or emphasize differences)

have the distinction (be distinguished from others of a similar type by virtue of a notable characteristic)

severalise; severalize (distinguish or separate)

contradistinguish (distinguish by contrasting qualities)

decouple; dissociate (regard as unconnected)

demarcate (separate clearly, as if by boundaries)

discriminate; separate; single out (treat differently on the basis of sex or race)

stratify (divide society into social classes or castes)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody