To Distinguish

1. To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics.
2. To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
3. To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To make to differ.

Usage notes

In sense “see a difference”, more casual than differentiate or the formal discriminate; more casual is “tell the difference”.

SynonymsEdit

• (see a difference): differentiate, discriminate; tell apart

AntonymsEdit

• (to see someone or something as different from others): confuse