OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 19140

distinguish

/dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
distinguir
To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics.
It had begun to take a leading place even in the days of the Ptolemies, and in scientific, as distinguished from purely literary work, it had assumed a position of primary importan…
The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.