(~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