Idiom
tell apart
Meaning
To perceive things as different, or to perceive their difference itself; to differentiate, distinguish, discriminate.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I cannot tell these two identical twins apart.”
“The colors are so similar that it is difficult to tell them apart in this dim light.”
“Even the most experienced experts struggle to tell apart the original masterpiece from the remarkably precise modern forgery.”
Examples
simple
“I cannot tell these two identical twins apart.”
contextual
“The colors are so similar that it is difficult to tell them apart in this dim light.”
complex
“Even the most experienced experts struggle to tell apart the original masterpiece from the remarkably precise modern forgery.”
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