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What does distinguish mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word distinguish? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To see someone or something as different from others.
  2. To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
  3. To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To make to differ.
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Solid horns, called antlers, distinguish most species in the deer family from the other hoofed mammals.
Colours were first used in 1762 to help racegoers distinguish the horses in any given contest.
But as a general rule, it will help distinguish between soda and lead glass.
Bizarrely, only six items describe the unique qualities that distinguish a doctor from other healthcare workers.
At maturity, poison hemlock can be difficult to distinguish from water parsnip and water hemlock.
Most live in conditions so abject that there is little to distinguish them from the most wretched chattel slaves of the past.

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