ASL Sign Language Dictionary

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tell apart

How to sign: mark as different
"We distinguish several kinds of maple";

differentiate in ASL Watch how to sign differentiate in American Sign Language
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distinguish in ASL Watch how to sign distinguish in American Sign Language
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Similiar / Same: distinguish, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, separate, tell

Categories: identify, place

Within this category: contradistinguish, contrast, decouple, demarcate, discriminate, discriminate, individualize, know, label, label, severalize, sex, stratify

tell apart

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";

discern in ASL Watch how to sign discern in American Sign Language
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Similiar / Same: discern, make out, distinguish, pick out, recognize, recognise

Within this category: discriminate, resolve

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