Main entry: tell, tell apart, differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize
Definition: mark as different
Usage: We distinguish several kinds of maple
Main entry: tell apart, spot, pick out, recognise, recognize, make out, distinguish, discern
Definition: detect with the senses
Usage: The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards; I can't make out the faces in this photograph