· 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"
Synonym(s): spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick_out, make_out
· mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
Synonym(s): distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell