tell apart

vb (tr, adverb) to distinguish between; discern: can you tell the twins apart?.

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Verb	1.	tell apart - detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"make out, discern, distinguish, spot, pick out, recognise, recognizeresolve - make clearly visible; "can this image be resolved?"discriminate - distinguish; "I could not discriminate the different tastes in this complicated dish"
	2.	tell apart - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, separate, tellknow - be able to distinguish, recognize as being different; "The child knows right from wrong"identify, place - recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something; "She identified the man on the 'wanted' poster"discriminate, know apart - recognize or perceive the differencelabel - distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactionslabel - distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atomsex - tell the sex (of young chickens)individualise, individualize - make or mark or treat as individual; "The sounds were individualized by sharpness and tone"contrast - put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; "The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student"severalise, severalize - distinguish or separatecontradistinguish - distinguish by contrasting qualitiesdecouple, dissociate - regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"demarcate - separate clearly, as if by boundariesdiscriminate, single out, separate - treat differently on the basis of sex or racestratify - divide society into social classes or castes; "Income distribution often stratifies a society"

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apart

(əˈpaːt) adverb separated by a certain distance. The trees were planted three metres apart; with his feet apart; Their policies are far apart; She sat apart from the other people.相隔apart from except for. I can't think of anything I need, apart from a car. 除去，除…以外尚有 come apart to break into pieces. The book came apart in my hands. 撕开，被拆开 take apart to separate (something) into the pieces from which it is made. He took the engine apart.拆开tell apart (usually with can, *cannotetc) to recognize the difference between; to distinguish. I cannot tell the twins apart.区分

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tell (someone or something) apart

To be able to discern or distinguish two or more people or things that appear or seem similar. This one is real, and this one is the counterfeit—you can tell them apart by the small holographic mark at the top corner of the genuine document. Even our parents sometimes have trouble telling me and my brother apart.See also: apart, tell

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

tell apart

v. To perceive something as being different or distinct from something else: I couldn't tell apart the real $20 bill from the counterfeit one. The twins were identical, and we couldn't tell them apart.See also: apart, tell

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verb detect with the senses

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verb mark as different

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