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Adjective distinguishing has 1 sense
- distinguishing, distinctive, identifying - serving to distinguish or identify a species or group; "the distinguishing mark of the species is its plumage"; "distinctive tribal tattoos"; "we were asked to describe any identifying marks or distinguishing features"
Antonyms: uncharacteristic, uncharacteristic of (indirect, via characteristic)
Verb distinguish has 5 senses
- distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
--1 is one way to identify, place
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody
- recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart - 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"
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s somebody
- distinguish, mark, differentiate - be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him form his peers"
--3 is one way to qualify, characterize, characterise
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- signalize, signalise, distinguish - make conspicuous or noteworthy
--4 is one way to mark
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
- identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name - identify as in botany or biology, for example
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s somebody
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