1. 区分;区别;辨别
If you can tell people or things apart, you are able to recognize the differences between them and can therefore identify each of them.

e.g. Perhaps it is the almost universal use of flavourings that makes it so hard to tell the products apart.
或许是因为调料的使用几乎千篇一律才使得那些产品难以区分开。

verb

1. mark as different

e.g. We distinguish several kinds of maple

Synonym: distinguishseparatedifferentiatesecernsecernateseveralizeseveralisetell

2. detect with the senses

e.g. The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
I can't make out the faces in this photograph

Synonym: spotrecognizerecognisedistinguishdiscernpick outmake out