What is the meaning of tell apart?

Detect with the senses.
- usage: "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
- synonyms: spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out
Mark as different.
- usage: "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
- synonyms: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell

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APA	WordNet. (2010). tell apart. Retrieved September 21, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/tell_apart/definitions/1330413
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