tell apart

Verb tell apart has 2 senses

• tell apart(v = verb.perception) discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot - 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"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

• tell apart(v = verb.cognition) differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
is one way to identify, place
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody