tell apart

Verb

• mark as different
  • We distinguish several kinds of maple
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  distinguish , separate , differentiate , secern , secernate , severalize , severalise , tell , spot , recognize , recognise , discern , pick out , make out