distinguish

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If "The Path to 9 / 11" is allowed to air it MUST be labeled so strongly that there is no way for anyone to misunderstand that anything and everything they see could be fact or fiction and there is no way to distinguish which is which.

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  1. transitive verb To perceive as being different or distinct.
  2. transitive verb To perceive distinctly; discern: distinguished the masts of ships on the horizon.
  3. transitive verb To make noticeable or different; set apart.
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  • If "The Path to 9 / 11" is allowed to air it MUST be labeled so strongly that there is no way for anyone to misunderstand that anything and everything they see could be fact or fiction and there is no way to distinguish which is which. —  msnbc.com: Community
  • With every school teaching different systems, methods and strategies, sometimes it is difficult to distinguish which is the most powerful of them all? —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • I hope the people@in the TOP knew everything and hope they are educated enough to distinguish which is right & wrong. —  rediff.com
 

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  1. Alteration of obsolete distingue, from Middle English distinguen, from Old French distinguer, from Latin distinguere, to separate; see steig- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. With added suffix, after other verbs in -ish; from Middle English distingwen, destingen (see distingue), from Old French distinguer, from Latin distinguere, separate, divide, distinguish, set off, adorn, literally mark off, from di- for dis-, apart, + stinguere = Greek στίζειν, prick, = English sting: see sting, stigma, style. Cf. extinguish.
 

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/dɪsˈtɪŋgwɪʃ/
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