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Tell Apart

Definitions: Tell Apart

Tell Apart

Verb

1. 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".

2. Mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Tell Apart

Synonyms: differentiate (v), discern (v), distinguish (v), make out (v), pick out (v), recognise (v), recognize (v), secern (v), secernate (v), separate (v), severalize (v), tell (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tell Apart

English words defined with "tell apart": Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Tweedledum and Tweedledee. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Tell Apart

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Wit and Wisdom of Jimmy Houston: Not Necessarily in That Order, and Sometimes Difficult to Tell Apart (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Tell Apart

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

High-pitched sounds such as "s" and "th" are difficult to hear and tell apart. (references)

Infection with the E. multilocularis tapeworm and other tapeworms may occur at the same time. Eggs of Taenia species tapeworms and Echinococcus tapeworms are similar in shape and size and are very difficult to tell apart. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tell Apart

Language Translations for "tell apart"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏حكى بالتفصيل. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

различавам (appreciate, contradistinguish, differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish), разпознавам (discern, distinguish, know, pick out, recognize, spot, tell). (various references)

   

French

  

raconter en détails. (various references)

   

German

  

unterscheiden (differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, set apart, to discern, to discriminate, to distinguish), auseinanderhalten (distinguish, keep apart). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξεχωρίζω (assort, discriminate, distinguish, distinguish between, individualize, know, make out, separate, single, single out, singularize, tell). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elltay apartay

   

Portuguese

  

distinguir (characterize, contradistinguish, descry, difference, differentiate, discernible, discriminate, distinguish, know the ropes, lay up bare, Mark, perceive, see, signalize). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

различать (contradistinguish, differ, differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish, make a distinction, pick out, tell them apart). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

raspoznati (discern, recognize). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

distinguir (discriminate, distinguish, make out, mark off, mark out, pick out, signalize, tell), diferenciar entre. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

farkını söylemek (tell the difference), ayırt etmek (contradistinguish, contradistinguish from, descry, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, individuate, know, pick out, recognize, separate, spot, tell, tell the difference), ayırdetmek (differentiate, discern, discriminate). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

відрізняти (characterize, discern, discriminate, distinguish, mark off, separate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Tell Apart

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-l-p-r-t-t"

-1 letter: patellar.

-2 letters: apteral, lateral, partlet, patella, platter, prattle, tapetal.

-3 letters: atlatl, earlap, latter, paella, palate, paleal, pallet, palter, patter, plater, rattle, taller, tapeta.

-4 letters: alate, alert, altar, alter, apart, apter, areal, artal, artel, attar, lapel, later, latte, leapt, lepta, palea, paler, palet, parae, parle, pater, pearl, peart, petal, plate, pleat, prate, ratal, ratel, reata, talar, taler, taper, tatar, tater, tepal, tetra, trapt, treat.

-5 letters: alae, alar, aper, area, atap, earl, late, leal, leap, lear, lept, pale, pall, para, pare, part, pate, peal, pear, peat, pelt, pert, plat, plea, prat, rale, rape, rapt, rate, real, reap, tael, tala, tale, tall, tapa, tape, tare, tarp, tart, tate, teal, tear, teat, tela, tell, tepa, trap, tret.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-l-p-r-t-t"
 

+5 letters: allotetraploid, departmentally, posterolateral, transplacental, transplantable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tell Apart


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 6C 6C      41 70 61 72 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01000001 01110000 01100001 01110010 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#32 &#65 &#112 &#97 &#114 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 006C 006C      0041 0070 0061 0072 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5471787823582678486

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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