Distinguish vs Himself - What's the difference?
distinguish | himself |
To see someone or something as different from others.
* {{quote-book, author=De Lacy O'Leary, title=, year=1922
, passage=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 importance early in the Christian era.}}
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=(Jeremy Bernstein)
, title=A Palette of Particles
, volume=100, issue=2, page=146
, magazine=(American Scientist)
To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
* 1784 : William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c. ,
(obsolete) To make to differ.
* Bible, 1 Cor. iv. 7 (Douay version)
(label) Him; (the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject)
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
(label) He;
* Bible, (w) vii. 14
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; "he himself".
*, II.7:
* Sir (1614-1669)
* 1998 , Kirk Jones, Waking Ned , Tomboy films
As a verb distinguish
is to see someone or something as different from others.As a pronoun himself is
the reflexive pronoun for god.distinguish
English
Verb
citation, passage=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.}}
PREFACE
- THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
- Who distinguisheth thee?
Usage notes
In sense “see a difference”, more casual than differentiate or the formal discriminate; more casual is “tell the difference”.Synonyms
(see a difference) differentiate, discriminateDerived terms
* distinguished * distinguishable * distinguishnessAntonyms
* (to see someone or something as different from others) confuseExternal links
* *himself
English
Pronoun
- The Lord himself shall give you a sign.
Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
- Yet it is that himselfe had been liberally gratified by his Unkle with militarie rewards, before ever he went to warres.
- With shame remembers, while himself' was one / Of the same herd, ' himself the same had done.
- Dennis: His glass is there and himself is in the toilet.