tell apart

Verb	1.	tell apart - 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" Synonyms: make out, discern, distinguish, pick out, recognise, recognize
	2.	tell apart - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, separate, tell

comprehend, discern, discriminate, distinguish, make out, perceive, pick out, recognise, recognize, resolve