transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪstɪŋgwɪʃ ]
( distinguishes, distinguishing, distinguished)
1.
If you can distinguish one thing from another or distinguish between two things, you can see or understand how they are different.
Could he distinguish right from wrong?...
Research suggests that babies learn to see by distinguishing between areas of light and dark...
It is necessary to distinguish the policies of two successive governments.
VERB : V n from n , V between pl-n , V pl-n
2.
A feature or quality that distinguishes one thing from another causes the two things to be regarded as different, because only the first thing has the feature or quality.
There is something about music that distinguishes it from all other art forms...
The bird has no distinguishing features.
VERB : V n from n , V-ing
3.
If you can distinguish something, you can see, hear, or taste it although it is very difficult to detect. ( FORMAL )
There were cries, calls. He could distinguish voices.
= discern
VERB : V n
4.
If you distinguish yourself , you do something that makes you famous or important.
Over the next few years he distinguished himself as a leading constitutional scholar...
They distinguished themselves at the Battle of Assaye.
VERB : V pron-refl as n , V pron-refl