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Distinguish
DISTINGUISH, v.t. [L. Gr. The primary sense is, to prick, to pierce with a sharp point, to thrust in or on; and we retain the precise word in the verb, to stick, which see. The practice of making marks by puncturing, or sticking, gave rise to the applications of this word, as such marks were used to note and ascertain different things, to distinguish them. See Distinguish.]
1. To ascertain and indicate difference by some external mark. The farmer distinguishes his sheep by marking their ears. The manufacturer distinguishes pieces of cloth by some mark or impression.
2. To separate one thing from another by some mark or quality; to know or ascertain difference.
First, by sight; as, to distinguish ones own children from others by their features.
Secondly, by feeling. A blind man distinguishes an egg from an orange, but rarely distinguishes colors.
Thirdly, by smell; as, it is easy to distinguish the small of a peach from that of an apple.
Fourthly, by taste; as, to distinguish a plum from a pear.
Fifthly, by hearing; as to distinguish the sound of a drum from that of a violin.
Sixthly, by the understanding; as, to distinguish vice form virtue, truth from falsehood.
3. To separate or divide by any mark or quality which constitutes difference. We distinguish sounds into high and low, soft and harsh, lively and grave. We distinguish causes into direct and indirect, immediate and mediate.
4. To discern critically; to judge.
Not more can you distinguish of a man, than of his outward show.
5. To separate from others by some mark of honor or preference. Homer and Virgil are distinguished as poets; Demosthenes and Cicero, as orators.
6. To make eminent or known.
DISTINGUISH, v.i. To make a distinction; to find or show the difference. It is the province of a judge to distinguish between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.
distinguish appears in definitions for these words:
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Abstraction Accent Acid Acquiescence Action Agaric Age Aha Amethystine Amphisben Animal Anomeans Apatite Aplanatic Apothem Apotheosis Arbor Archpolitician Archprotestant Archpublican Aristocracy Assident Attraction Aularian Auscultation Badge Barrister Base Basilicon Bass-relief Battalia Bearing Beast Beglerbeg Belly Between Bid Bigness Bilander Blend Blot Bonze Botany Bountihede Bowl Brief Brighten Broad Brucite Budlet Bully C Cadet Calamin Calamine Calvinish Camisade Canonical Carnelian Cattle Celebrate Celebration Centurist Ceremonial Charact Characteristic Characterize Characterized Characterizing Charge Chief Choice Chore Chosen Churchman Circumflex Citizen Civil Civility Class Coasting-trade Collateral Colorless Coluber Commeline Commissary Commodore Common Composer Concession Conformist Confound Confuse Confused Consistent Consort Conspicuous Conspicuousness Constriction Continual Contradistinct Contradistinctive Contradistinguish Contradistinguishe Contradistinguishi Coral Cornet Corol Corolla Cotton-shrub Couchant Country County Credenda Crib Critic Critical Crotchet Cut Cutter Day Deciduous Defacing Degree Demain Demoniacs Derogate Design Designable Designate Designation Device Devotion Diacritical Diadem Diagnostic Difference Dignify Dignotion Dioristic Dioristically Discern Discerned Discerner Discernible Discerning Discernment Discriminate Discriminated Discriminating Discrimination Disintegration Distinct Distinction Distinctive Distinguish Distinguishable Distinguished Distinguisher Distinguishing Diversify Diversiified Division Doric Downfall Draught-horse Drawing-room Ear Easel Efface Egregious Election Elegance Elephant Eloquence Eminent Eminently Emotion Emulate Ensign Entitled Entitling Envoy Epic Equisonance Erratic Essence Essential Europe Excel Excellent Expository F Faith Famed Family Famous Favor Feast Feeler Felony Figure Figuring First-born Fixed Flaccidness Flesh Flower Fly Foot Foreign Form Formality Fount Friar Fright Fur Fusileer Galaxy General Gentleman Genus Give Glory Glove Goddess Goth Grand Grease Great Grenadier Guilt H Habitual Hedge-sparrow Herb Hero High Honor Honorable Humanity Hurraw Idea Identity Illustrate Illustrating Illustrious Imagination Impalpable Imperative Inadhesion Incognizable Indistinct Indistinguishable Individualize Individualized Individualizing Individuate Inertness Infantry Inflorescence Inhabitant Inland Inn Insignia Instrumental Intermission Interpoint Interstinctive Intinctivity Ionic Italics Joinhand Judge Junior Kind Know Label Labeling Laborer Laity Landflood Lane Language Largo Latria Law Lazuli Legal Legible Liberal Licentiate Lie Lithomarga Litigious Livery Local Locomotive Longitudinal Lowness Luminary Lyric Main Main-keel Man Marked Market Measuring Mechanic Medal Membranaceous Memorable Merchantman Mercy Meridian Militant Militia Milky-way Mineralogy Minute-watch Molybden Moral Mournful Movables Much Municipal Name Nameless Natural Nature Nebulab Nebule Nice Night-watch Noble Notable Now Number Numeric Numerical Nut Obelisk Olefiant Opossum Ordinary Overt Pagan Palace Palfrey Panegyric Paragraph Paravail Parlor Particular Patriarch Pebblestone Pendant Penitent Perplex Personal Phalanx Pharisaicical Phlogiston Physically Pique Plain-work Planet Plate Plurality Poet Point Political Pomp Ponderal Populace Power Practice Pre-eminent Preciseness Precociousness Predecessor Prefix Presumptive Prey Prickle Principal Printing-paper Privy Probably Prominent Proteus Proximate Purple Purpose Purview Pusillanimity Q Quaker Quantity Radical Rain Reason Red Remark Remission Renowned Respect Retinue Ringleader Rinse River-water Roll Rotation Rubricate Ruby Rural Sagacity Salient Salt Salute Satirize Saturnian Satyr Scald Scan Season Sell Semicolon Set Sever Severalize Severalty Sexual Sexuality Sharp Shibboleth Shine Shining Side Signal Signalize Signally Signature Singularity Smile Snake Snipe Soldier Solid Soothsaying Soul Sound Specht Specifical Specify Specuation Spirit Stall-feed Standing State Statedly Statute Staurolite Staurotide Steam Sterling Stethescope Stilbite Stop Strength Subjective Sublimity Subordinate Subtil Succulent Suit Supereminence Superstucture Taste Tasting Team-work Tense Testaceology Thanksgive Theory Ticket Tiddle Tin Tokay Tore Tornado Town Trade Translucency Tung Tunnel-kiln Unbestarred Undistinguishable Undistinguished Uniform Univocally Unpedigreed Unpointed Unsignalized Vapor Venous Vice-chancellor Village Virtue Viviparous Vocation Wale Water-mill Way Wernerite Wholesale Wide Wild With Wood-ashes Worthy Zonnar Zygodactylous
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