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Idioms: tell apart

Discern or distinguish, as in It's hard to tell the twins apart. [First half of 1900s]


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The verb has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: detect with the senses
  Synonyms: recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out

Meaning #2: mark as different
  Synonyms: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell


 
 
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Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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