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/dˌɪfərˈɛnʃiˌeɪt/ /dˌɪfərˈɛntʃiˌeɪt/ Listen

Differentiate

verb

Mark as different. Synonyms: distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart.

Be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense. Synonyms: distinguish, mark.

Calculate a derivative; take the derivative. Antonym: integrate.

Become different during development. Antonym: dedifferentiate.

Evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment. Synonyms: specialise, specialize, speciate.

Become distinct and acquire a different character.

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"Differentiate" Quotes from Famous Books

... on which experts claim to be able to detect variations and to differentiate between handwritings is based on the well-established axiom that there is no such thing as a perfect pair in nature; that, however close the apparent similarity between two things, a careful examination and comparison will reveal ...

— The Detection of Forgery • Douglas Blackburn

... human beings, so also with the lower animals, it is not always possible to differentiate friendship from the sexual impulse. Robert Mueller has collected a number of interesting observations bearing on this matter.[60] He states that the so-called animal friendships, friendships between animals of different species, are in many cases determined by sexual feelings. He mentions ...

— The Sexual Life of the Child • Albert Moll

... I had finished my job of ploughing, that he could not afford it. Butter was low and he had too many other ways for using his money. I think it quite possible that my dreams gave me the best there was in Harpersfield anyway—a worthy aspiration is never lost. All these things differentiate me from ...

— My Boyhood • John Burroughs

... one after another into notice; and thus something like a true general impression of the subject may at last be struck. But in the short study, the writer, having seized his "point of view," must keep his eye steadily to that. He seeks, perhaps, rather to differentiate than truly to characterise. The proportions of the sitter must be sacrificed to the proportions of the portrait; the lights are heightened, the shadows overcharged; the chosen expression, continually forced, may degenerate at length into a ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... unions thus combining death and disability benefits grade the disability benefit. They usually also differentiate the two benefits either in the amount paid or in the period of membership required for eligibility to the benefit. The Iron Molders, the Cigar Makers and the Painters pay the same sums in case of disability as of death.[104] The ...

— Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions • James B. Kennedy

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