tell apart

verbs

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"
discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart
mark as different
"We distinguish several kinds of maple"
differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart