distinguish

Verb

• identify as in botany or biology, for example

• make conspicuous or noteworthy

• be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
  • His modesty distinguishes him from his peers
    

• 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
    

• mark as different
  • We distinguish several kinds of maple
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  identify , discover , key , key out , describe , name , signalize , signalise , mark , differentiate , spot , recognize , recognise , discern , pick out , make out , tell apart , separate , secern , secernate , severalize , severalise , tell