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Tell apart   /tɛl əpˈɑrt/   Listen
Tell apart

verb
1.
Detect with the senses.  Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot.  "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
2.






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"Tell apart" Quotes from Famous Books



... own age, not long out of Yale and Princeton, doing well in business and jumping for their evening clothes daily at six-thirty, light o' loves and admirers of athletic heroes, these lads Claire found pleasant, but hard to tell apart. She didn't have to tell Jeff Saxton apart. He did his own telling. Jeff called—not too often. He sang—not too sentimentally. He took her father and herself to the theater—not too lavishly. He told Claire—in a voice not too serious—that ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis

... fungous parasites of tomatoes, which, for the readers convenience, may be briefly mentioned and the treatment of all discussed together. The first three are indeed somewhat difficult to tell apart without a microscope, as they produce a similar effect on the leaves and all yield to the same treatment—thorough spraying ...
— Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato • William Warner Tracy



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