DISTINGUISH


Meaning of DISTINGUISH in English

(~es, ~ing, ~ed)

1.

If you can ~ one thing from another or ~ between two things, you can see or understand how they are different.

Could he ~ right from wrong?...

Research suggests that babies learn to see by ~ing between areas of light and dark...

It is necessary to ~ the policies of two successive governments.

VERB: V n from n, V between pl-n, V pl-n

2.

A feature or quality that ~es 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 ~es it from all other art forms...

The bird has no ~ing features.

VERB: V n from n, V-ing

3.

If you can ~ something, you can see, hear, or taste it although it is very difficult to detect. (FORMAL)

There were cries, calls. He could ~ voices.

= discern

VERB: V n

4.

If you ~ yourself, you do something that makes you famous or important.

Over the next few years he ~ed himself as a leading constitutional scholar...

They ~ed themselves at the Battle of Assaye.

VERB: V pron-refl as n, V pron-refl

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