Crossword clues for tell apart
Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To perceive things as different, or to perceive their difference itself; to differentiate, distinguish, discriminate.
WordNet
v. 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" [syn: recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out]
mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" [syn: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell]
Usage examples of "tell apart".
The only priests Tom could see were in the regular dress of ordinary priests or Jesuits and one or two other orders of priests that Tom didn't know well enough to tell apart.
They were hard to tell apart and Angelina took a very antipathetic view towards my suggestion that we paint a B on one little forehead and J on the other.
Even among identical twins Joshua and Justin were unusually hard to tell apart, a fact that had caused untold confusion throughout their lives.
Most Finns are hard to tell apart from Swedes, but Otto and Julieta both have black hair and black eyes, and could pass for Turks.
Elsewhere, their works formed a glittery, brittle-seeming encrustation atop an architecture that was difficult to tell apart from mountain ranges until one got close enough to observe its symmetry.
F'thk were difficult enough to tell apart in good lighting, as far as Kyle could tell differing only in slight variations of skin tone.
The boat was symmetrically shaped, with rounded ends that were hard to tell apart.
You're the only people here who the rest of us can tell apart from the inmates immediately at a glance.
Aside from that and the penis the two would have been hard to tell apart.
When B Flat arrived and looked much like C Sharp except for his sexual organs, she- had assumed Titanides were going to be hard to tell apart.