distinguish meaning
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WDistinguish
- VerbSGdistinguishesPRdistinguishingPT, PPdistinguishedPREdis-SUF-ish
- To see someone or something as different from others.
- It had begun to take a leading place even in the days of the Ptolemies, and in scientific, as distinguished from purely literary work, it had assumed a position of primary importance early in the Christian era.
- To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
- To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
- VT OBS To make to differ.
- To see someone or something as different from others.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- This is the distinguishing feature of the accomplished vuvuzelist. The vuvuzela blower lives by one golden rule: never stop blowing.
- In dogs, AMH has been described to distinguish ovariohysterectomized from intact bitches [ 25 ].
- This distinguishes them from granules in adjacent cells and perhaps signals the presence of sulfomucins typical of some types of secretory cells [22 ].
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
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