Distinguish vs Signalize - What's the difference?
distinguish | signalize | Synonyms |
To see someone or something as different from others.
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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)
To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.
* Burke
To communicate with by means of a signal.
(humorous, or, nonstandard) To make something noticeable, different, remarkable or conspicuous, especially by gesticulation.
(nonstandard) To signal; to indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal.
* Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
(nonstandard) To install a traffic signal at an intersection that is currently regulated by stop signs.
As verbs the difference between distinguish and signalize
is that distinguish is to see someone or something as different from others while signalize is to make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.distinguish
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Verb
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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
* *signalize
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Verb
- It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves.
- a ship signalizes its consort
- to signalize the arrival of a steamer
- And yet... looking here at this bottle which by its number signalized the day when Colonel Freeleigh had stumbled and fallen six feet into the earth, Douglas could not find so much as a gram of dark sediment