tell apart

tell apart (http://definr.com/tell apart)

     v 1: 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" [syn: recognize,
           recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, {make
          out}]
     2: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
        [syn: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern,
         secernate, severalize, tell]