differentiate between someone or something and someone or something else
- differentiate between someone or something and someone or something else
differentiate between someone or something and someone or something else
1. to recognize the difference between people or things in any combination. (Usually refers to two entities.) •
In your painting, I cannot differentiate between the costume of the figure in front and the flowers in the background.
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Can't you differentiate between Billy and his brother?
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I can't differentiate between a donkey and a burro.
2. to establish or create the difference between people or things. •
Why don't you paint in some highlights to differentiate between the figure in the foreground and the flowers in the background?
Dictionary of American idioms.
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