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How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: discern, make out, tell apart, pick out, recognize, recognise
Within this category: discriminate, resolve
How to sign: be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
"His modesty distinguishes him form his peers";
Similiar / Same: differentiate, mark
Categories: characterise, characterize, qualify
Within this category: characterize