Čo znamená distinguish v angličtine a aká je definícia distinguish?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť distinguish výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

distinguish Význam & definícia

0 to notice or understand the difference between two things, or to make one person or thing seem different from another:
- He's colour-blind and can't distinguish (the difference) between red and green easily.
- I sometimes have difficulty distinguishing Spanish from Portuguese.
- It's important to distinguish between business and pleasure.
- It's not the beauty so much as the range of his voice that distinguishes him from other tenors.
- He distinguished himself as a writer at a very early age.
1 to recognize or understand the difference between two things, or to provide a quality that makes someone or something different or special:
- [ I always + adv/prep ] It’s important to distinguish between scientific fact and fiction.
- [ T ] Samuel F. B. Morse distinguished himself both as an inventor and as a painter.
2 to see, hear, or experience something, esp. with difficulty:
- In the dark, I could barely distinguish the shape of a person.

They look so similar it's often difficult to distinguish one from the other.
The male bird displays several characteristics which distinguish him from the female.
It's his eye for detail that distinguishes him as a painter.
It can be difficult to distinguish between poisonous and edible mushrooms.
Teachers have to learn to distinguish between behaviour problems associated with learning difficulties and behaviour problems linked to something else.
Embryogenesis is traditionally divided into a series of consecutive stages distinguished by morphological markers.
Our approach determines, from all possible combinations of disjoint probability distributions, the set of distributions that most effectively distinguishes functional sites from non-functional sequences.
In this example, three levels of priority are distinguished for reported problems.