Textual thesaurus for "tell apart"

(verb) tell, differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize

mark as different

We distinguish several kinds of maple

(verb) spot, pick out, recognise, recognize, make out, distinguish, discern

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