different between distinguish vs tel

English

Etymology

From Middle English distingwen, from Old French distinguer, from Latin distinguere (“to separate, divide, distinguish, set off, adorn, literally mark off”), from di-, dis- (“apart”) + stinguere. Compare extinguish.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?s-t?ng?gw?sh, IPA^(key): /d?s?t???w??/
• Rhymes: -???w??
• Hyphenation: dis?tin?guish

Verb

distinguish (third-person singular simple present distinguishes, present participle distinguishing, simple past and past participle distinguished)

1. To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics.

   Synonyms: differentiate, discriminate; see also Thesaurus:tell apart

   Antonym: confuse
2. To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
3. To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
   • 1784: William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., 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.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To make to differ.

Usage notes

In sense “see a difference”, more casual than differentiate or the formal discriminate; more casual is “tell the difference”.

Derived terms

• distinguished
• distinguishable
• distinguishing
• distinguishness
• undistinguishing

Related terms

• distinct
• distinction
• extinguish

Translations

Further reading

• distinguish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• distinguish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

tel (plural tels)

1. Abbreviation of telephone number.
2. Abbreviation of telegraph.
3. Abbreviation of telegram.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

tel (plural tels)

1. Alternative form of tell (“hill or mound”)

Anagrams

• -let, ELT, ETL, LTE, TLE, elt, let

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch tellen, from Middle Dutch tellen, from Old Dutch tellen, from Proto-Germanic *taljan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t???l]

Verb

tel (present tel, present participle telende, past participle tellende)

1. to count

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel).

Noun

tel

1. thread
2. (music) chord, string

Derived terms

• tejzë

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *t?l (“wire, string; thong; strand”). Cognate with Karakhanid ?????? (tili, “thong”), Crimean Tatar and Turkish tel, Turkmen til, Kumyk and Nogai ??? (tel), Chuvash ??? (tal, “bundle”).Alternatively, related to Armenian ??? (t?el, “thread”), either as a direct borrowing or originating from the same Iranian source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tel]

Noun

tel (definite accusative teli, plural tell?r)

1. strand of hair
2. string
3. wire
4. telegram

5. fringe; bang; forelock
6. tie

Declension

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?té??]

Etymology 1

Particle

t?l

1. however, nonetheless

Etymology 2

Noun

t?l inan

1. first-person plural possessive singular of ?lli; (it is) our liver; the human liver.
2. first-person plural possessive plural of ?lli; (they are) our livers.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Compare Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel), Old Armenian ??? (t?el).

Noun

tel

1. wire

2. (music) chord, string

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “tel”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

tel m (plural tellen, diminutive telletje n)

1. count

   De gebedssnoeren worden gebruikt om de tel niet kwijt te raken bij het reciteren of chanten.^[1] — Prayer beads are used in order to not lose count while reciting or chanting.

2. (time) second
3. a short moment

Verb

tel

1. first-person singular present indicative of tellen
2. imperative of tellen

Anagrams

• Let, let

French

Etymology

From Old French tel, from Latin t?lis. Compare Spanish tal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l/

Adjective

tel (feminine singular telle, masculine plural tels, feminine plural telles)

1. such

Derived terms

• telle mère, telle fille
• tel père, tel fils
• tel quel

Pronoun

tel ?

1. one (impersonal pronoun)

Derived terms

• tellement

Further reading

• “tel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English tel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [te?????]

Noun

tel(??) • (teru) 

1. telephone
2. telephone number

Verb

tel(??)?? • (teru suru) suru (stem tel(??)? (teru shi), past tel(??)?? (teru shita))

1. (informal) to call (contact by telephone)

Conjugation

Old French

Etymology

From Latin t?lis.

Adjective

tel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tele)

1. such a
   • circa 1050, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland (Oxford manuscript)

     Unques nuls hom tel chevaler ne vit

     Never has a man seen such a knight

Declension

Related terms

• itel

Old Norse

Verb

tel

1. first-person singular present indicative of telja
2. second-person singular imperative of telja

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• ????????????????? (tel) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (taila).

Noun

tel (Hanifi spelling ????????????????)

1. oil

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têl/

Noun

t?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (obsolete) thin wire

   Ne biju se tako pobinjice, ve? se biju od tela kandžijom

2. silver or golden thread or string for sewing or embroidering
   • 1906, Stevan Sremac, Zona Zamfirova:

     Pustila dugu kosu niz ple?a i preko grudi, a niz dugu kosu pušta se tel, blešti i treperi tel me?u crnom bujnom kosom, pa mu izgleda Zona sjajna i sve?ana kao zavetna ikona.

Declension

References

• 1957, Škalji? Abdulah, Turcizmi u narodnom govoru, Sarajevo
• 1976, ?????? ???????????????? ????????? ??????, VI. ?????, ?-? (???????), ????? ?????????? ??????, ?????? ??????, ???? ???, ???. 171

Tatar

Noun

tel

1. tongue; language

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel). See it for more.

Noun

tel (definite accusative teli, plural teller)

1. wire
2. thread
3. string, chord

4. telegram

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of telefon.

Noun

tel

1. Abbreviation of telefon.

Declension

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “tel”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

Volapük

Numeral

tel

1. two

Derived terms

• telüm

West Frisian

Adverb

tel

1. (archaic) soon

Further reading

• “tel (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011