What does tell apart mean?
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tell apart
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Princeton's WordNet
spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apartverb
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"
distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apartverb
mark as different
"We distinguish several kinds of maple"
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tell apartverb
To be able to know the difference between things; to distinguish.
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tell apart
"Tell apart" is a phrase that means to recognize or identify the differences between two or more things or people, often things or people that are very similar, hence allowing for distinction or differentiation.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of tell apart in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of tell apart in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of tell apart in a Sentence
The fossil record is incomplete enough that if you’re in a new area or a new time, there’s a fair chance that the dinosaurs there are going to be distinct, Steven Jasinski said. For instance, scientists might discover a toe from a brand new species, but such subtle differences may be unrecognizable or impossible to prove. [ T ] hings that we call separate species today would be very, very hard to tell apart based on their skeleton( crow versus raven, for example).
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