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differentiate
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  • The software recognizes different IP addresses, but does not differentiate between users of an address.
  • The software does a good job of differentiating between real messages and spam.
    differentiating = recognizing difference
  • Taste is supposed to help us differentiate food that's good for us from food that's not.   (source)
    differentiate = recognize difference between
  • Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.   (source)
    differentiating = recognizing difference
  • That word, however, does not differentiate between the sexes.   (source)
    differentiate = recognize difference
  • But my mom knew more about differentiated thyroid carcinoma in adolescents than most oncologists.   (source)
    differentiated = recognized as different
  • I think I will stop putting quotation marks around Nothing's name because it is annoying and disrupting my flow. I hope you do not find this difficult to follow.
    I will make sure to differentiate if something comes up.   (source)
    differentiate = recognize difference
  • As I plodded toward him through the snow I began to differentiate items of clothing—a dull green deer-stalker's cap, brown ear muffs, a thick gray woolen scarf—   (source)
  • The air moved a little faster and became a light wind, so that leeward and windward side were clearly differentiated.   (source)
    differentiated = recognized as different
  • Both of these first two readings have picked up what is most central to the story, namely the growing awareness of the main character to class differentiation and snobbery.   (source)
    differentiation = differences or treatment as different
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  • Katherine's eyes were watering profusely now, and she could no longer differentiate objects in her immediate surroundings.   (source)
    differentiate = recognize differences in
  • Next, he suggests what he calls mutual differentiation, an acknowledgment of interdependence that takes into account various group identities.   (source)
    differentiation = recognition of difference
  • Riders and their dragons are bound together so closely, it's often hard to differentiate one from the other.   (source)
    differentiate = distinguish (recognize difference in)
  • I had to remember what clothes they wore to differentiate them.   (source)
    differentiate = recognize difference between
  • At these venues, there are just so many people, and so much sound, that it's almost impossible to differentiate a specific voice.   (source)
    differentiate = recognize difference of
  • In the other place, the forces of good and evil could not be seen. Only their effects. But here, both good and evil are more … intimate. ... An incomplete differentiation, but simple enough, wouldn't you say, Gabil?   (source)
    differentiation = explanation of differences
  • He noted that early on, Calderon had referred to securing return of "ship, merchandise, and negroes," which showed a differentiation between men and cargo, and yet in later letters, he demanded return of the blacks under Pickney's Treaty because they were "part of the ship's manifested cargo."   (source)
    differentiation = act of recognizing difference
  • Here, on the borders of death, life follows an amazingly simple course, it is limited to what is most necessary.... Were we more subtly differentiated we must long since have gone mad, have deserted, or have fallen. As in a polar expedition, every expression of life must serve only the preservation of existence, and is absolutely focused on that.   (source)
    differentiated = focused on different things
  • We must differentiate between what he did in London as part of his general plan of action, when he was pressed for moments and had to arrange as best he could.   (source)
    differentiate = recognize difference
  • I listened so hard that I nearly differentiated it from the others, and it seemed to be saying, "Finny, give that bone the old college try."   (source)
    differentiated = recognized difference in
  • You can easily get lost in these new subdivisions, lost for hours passing from Nor'wood, to Briargate, to Stetson Hills, from Antelope Meadows to Chapel Ridge, without ever finding anything of significance to differentiate one block from another — except their numbers.   (source)
    differentiate = recognize difference
  • The differentiations of sex, age, and occupation are not essential to our character, but mere costumes which we wear for a time on the stage of the world.†   (source)
  • The cliff face passed by, undifferentiated, featureless.   (source)
    undifferentiated = without recognized difference
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undifferentiated means not and reverses the meaning of differentiated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Similarly his brown complexion, unremarkable features, meager body, and natural tendency toward shyness and introspection made him appear simply one of those undifferentiated thousands who throng the streets and buses.   (source)
    undifferentiated = without recognizable difference
  • Not merely the love of one person but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire: that was the force that would tear the Party to pieces.   (source)
    undifferentiated = without recognizing differences
  • A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again.   (source)
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  • Her view of this issue differentiates her from most progressives in Congress.
    differentiates = makes different
  • But the people of Salem in 1692 were not quite the dedicated folk that arrived on the Mayflower. A vast differentiation had taken place, and in their own time a revolution had unseated the royal government and substituted a junta which was at this moment in power.   (source)
    differentiation = change to something different
  • Instead, students were required to use their real first names, followed by a number, to differentiate them from other students with the same name.   (source)
    differentiate = make them different
  • This kind of exchange does not require quite as much physical differentiation between male and female as we usually think exists.   (source)
    differentiation = difference
  • So what's going on here? Character differentiation, certainly. The missing member sets Jake apart from everyone else in the novel, or any other novel I know of, for that matter.   (source)
    differentiation = making different than others
  • As we age, these multipotential or totipotential cells differentiate more so that fewer of them remain that can change into anything else.   (source)
    differentiate = become different
  • The eldest, a child psychologist, admonished the mother in an autobiographical paper, "I Was There Too," by saying that the color system had weakened the four girls' identity differentiation abilities and made them forever unclear about personality boundaries.   (source)
    differentiation = to establish difference
  • The organization's final name became "the Section for Special Analysis," the SSA, and in daily parlance, "the Section," to differentiate it from "the Division" or "the Firm," which referred to the Security Police as a whole.   (source)
    differentiate = make different
  • That he was lean, strong, and deeply sunburnt, added to the differentiation.   (source)
    differentiation = difference
  • He began speaking with the peculiar grave courtesy that differentiated him from the majority of Inner Party members.   (source)
    differentiated = made different
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  • A student of aesthetics and philosophy, in training to see the patterns in which one thing was differentiated from another, Alessandro noticed this immediately.   (source)
  • She thought of what she did as offering "undifferentiated help to anybody."   (source)
    undifferentiated = without difference
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undifferentiated means not and reverses the meaning of differentiated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Beyond that, though, is another element: character differentiation.   (source)
    differentiation = making different than others
  • "Behaviour of Differentiated Nuclei in Heterokaryons of Animal Cells from Different Species," Nature 206 (1965)   (source)
    differentiated = different
  • That's just the way I differentiate.   (source)
    differentiate = distinguish between (specify which)
  • He'd done some experimenting, and even if the skin tone wasn't right and the graphics weren't perfect, he knew how to differentiate between races and hair color and build through programming language.   (source)
    differentiate = make different
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  • I told him how he should do more avantgarde thematic restaurant design, to differentiate himself from the other firms.†   (source)
  • It's differentiating the denominator and the numerator.†   (source)
  • Though I couldn't understand a word of what they were saying, I'd been around Boris enough that I was beginning to differentiate the intonations of spoken Ukrainian from Russian.†   (source)
  • And I think the very fact that he is able to differentiate so sharply between Tony's world and 'real things' says a lot about the fundamentally healthy state of his mind.†   (source)
  • This is what people in rooms have to agree on, as differentiated from lawns, meadows, fields, orchards.†   (source)
  • It was also, in Ruth's opinion, the first year in which students really began to differentiate academically.†   (source)
  • They were effectively blind, and only the constant pull of their weight let them differentiate up from down.†   (source)
  • He was the foreman's son and, to differentiate him from his father and grandfather, had been named Pedro Tercero Garcia.†   (source)
  • But if God created everyone, Cedric mulls, tapping his pencil eraser on the desktop, what ultimately differentiates the winners from the rest?†   (source)
  • It differentiated her from others.†   (source)
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  • They were the envy of most lighter-skinned albinos because the rich tones differentiated them so dramatically from the white Horde.†   (source)
  • As organisms became more intelligent, they grew larger, passing from the single-celled stage to multicellular creatures, and then to larger animals with differentiated cells working in groups called organs.†   (source)
  • All were clearly differentiated sections, at that time, and though we were all put into uniforms of navy blue so as to unify us, it could have been told by the girls' accents, by their bearings, the way they came into the classroom and the way they ate, where they'd grown up.†   (source)
  • I must confess to you, my dear: I don't differentiate much between thoughts and words.†   (source)
  • In the sixties, mused Ruth, people railed against race-differentiated services as ghettoization.†   (source)
  • "Turns out there's some differentiation to them.†   (source)
  • If something happens to the already differentiated cells, these undefined cells still have the capacity to change and replace those that were destroyed and take over their function.†   (source)
  • In the United States, football and basketball don't select, stream, and differentiate quite as dramatically.†   (source)
  • Thus, in cultures whose ancestry includes ancient Greece, one invariably finds a strong subject-object differentiation because the grammar of the old Greek mythos presumed a sharp natural division of subjects and predicates.†   (source)
  • 113) : " The four socially and personally most important threshold regions on the IQ scale are those that differentiate with high probability between persons who, because of their level of general mental ability, can or cannot attend a regular school (about IQ 50), can or cannot master the traditional subject matter of elementary school (about IQ 75), can or cannot succeed in the academic or college preparatory curriculum through high school (about IQ 105), can or cannot graduate from…†   (source)
  • Barnsley argues that these kinds of skewed age distributions exist whenever three things happen: selection, streaming, and differentiated experience.†   (source)
  • The furniture hasn't changed in the bedrooms where our children slept, but because the posters and bulletin boards have been taken down—as well as all other reminders of their personalities—there is nothing to differentiate one room from the next.†   (source)
  • This was where his thoughts inevitably led, and it was what differentiated him from others who were expected to carry out the desires outlined in living wills.†   (source)
  • There was little to differentiate it from the neighboring buildings other than the nearly hundred cars parked in the lot and a small wooden walkway that led around the building, stringed with inexpensive strands of white Christmas tree lights.†   (source)
  • Thus Jean learned how to determine the exact amount of time the relics had lain in the ground, how to differentiate the various styles and epochs, and how to locate burial grounds in the desert by means of signs invisible to civilized eyes.†   (source)
  • As he watches them pass, Cedric struggles with something that he would rather not know and that he manages, day in and day out, to keep safely submerged: that these kids are not all that different from him, that what mostly differentiates him are transferable qualities like will and faith.†   (source)
  • Just as a potter's wheel, once it has been set in motion, will keep on turning for a long time and only slowly lose its vigour and come to a stop, thus Siddhartha's soul had kept on turning the wheel of asceticism, the wheel of thinking, the wheel of differentiation for a long time, still turning, but it turned slowly and hesitantly and was close to coming to a standstill.†   (source)
  • ' If ye realize the Emptiness of All Things, Compassion will arise within your hearts; If ye lose all differentiation between yourselves and others, fit to serve others ye will be; And when in serving others ye shall win success, then shall ye meet with me; And finding me, ye shall attain to Buddhahood.†   (source)
  • It was called that to differentiate it from a celluloid collar which was what poor men wore because it could be laundered simply by being wiped with a wet rag.†   (source)
  • The Wingfield apartment is in the rear of the building, one of those vast hive-like conglomerations of cellular living-units that flower as warty growths in overcrowded urban centers of lower middle-class population and are symptomatic of the impulse of this largest and fundamentally enslaved section of American society to avoid fluidity and differentiation and to exist and function as one interfused mass of automatism.†   (source)
  • And, striking off these observations spontaneously, I elaborate myself; differentiate myself and, listening to the voice that says as I stroll past, "Look!†   (source)
  • It is at times hard to differentiate, you see.†   (source)
  • "How kind of you to define and differentiate the matter so clearly," Hans Castorp said.†   (source)
  • First you differentiate the two cases, then equate them.†   (source)
  • But there was no way to differentiate it precisely, to keep the kinds of fever apart.†   (source)
  • To-day the following economic classes are plainly differentiated among these Negroes.†   (source)
  • On other days we would go along the boulevards, and I would post myself at the corner of the Rue Duphot; I had heard that Swann was often to be seen passing there, on his way to the dentist's; and my imagination so far differentiated Gilberte's father from the rest of humanity, his presence in the midst of a crowd of real people introduced among them so miraculous an element, that even before we reached the Madeleine I would be trembling with emotion at the thought that I was…†   (source)
  • Also White Fang had early come to differentiate between the family and the servants of the household.†   (source)
  • But, gradually, the truth dawned on me: that Man had not remained one species, but had differentiated into two distinct animals: that my graceful children of the Upper-world were not the sole descendants of our generation, but that this bleached, obscene, nocturnal Thing, which had flashed before me, was also heir to all the ages.†   (source)
  • Tess thought her loss as great as Marian's, but upheld by the dignity of being Angel's wife, in the letter at least, she accepted Marian's differentiation.†   (source)
  • She knows by instinct that far back in the evolutional process she invented him, differentiated him, created him in order to produce something better than the single-sexed process can produce.†   (source)
  • 'Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the differentiation of occupations are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force; where population is balanced and abundant, much childbearing becomes an evil rather than a blessing to the State; where violence comes but rarely and…†   (source)
  • These images, unreal, fixed, always alike, filling all my nights and days, differentiated this period in my life from those which had gone before it (and might easily have been confused with it by an observer who saw things only from without, that is to say, who saw nothing), as in an opera a fresh melody introduces a novel atmosphere which one could never have suspected if one had done no more than read the libretto, still less if one had remained outside the theatre, counting only…†   (source)
  • But White Fang soon learned to differentiate between thieves and honest men, to appraise the true value of step and carriage.†   (source)
  • His host and his host's household, his men and his maids, as they became intimately known to Clare, began to differentiate themselves as in a chemical process.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, they aught peoples to differentiate themselves one from the other and fostered the growth of the concept of the nation-state.†   (source)
  • The labels in the middle of the ebonite disks were different colors, but otherwise the eye could not differentiate them.†   (source)
  • We call it a creeping sensation in order to differentiate between its purely physical and its psychological aspects, since there was hardly any sense of horror involved.†   (source)
  • Cam miof When the moral courage to decide and differentiate between fraud and reality begins to melt away, that marks the end of life itself, of formed opinions, of values, of any improving deed, and the corruptive process of moral skepticism begins its awful work.†   (source)
  • …deftly doing his work, after time had done its, or when he stood at his balcony door and cut his nails with the shears and file he had taken from a pretty velvet etui, he was suddenly overcome with the old dizziness that was mixed with a scary sense of curious delight, an ambiguous dizziness that made him feel not only unsteady, but also beguiled by his whirling inability to differentiate between "still" and "again," out of whose blurred jumble emerge the timeless "always" and "ever."†   (source)
  • It seems to me this method of differentiating establishes the difference between what is political and what is not.†   (source)
  • Whereas with highly differentiated beings like you and me, the skin's sole aspiration is to be tickled.†   (source)
  • Among lower animals there is no differentiation whatever between central and peripheral—they smell and taste with their skin.†   (source)
  • And the physical merges into the intellectual, and vice versa, and cannot be differentiated, and stupidity and cleverness cannot be differentiated.†   (source)
  • In the search for some link, scientists had stooped to the absurdity of hypothesizing living material with no structure, unorganized organisms, which if placed in a solution of protein would grow like crystals in a nutrient solution—whereas, in fact, organic differentiation was simultaneously the prerequisite and expression of all life, and no life-form could be proved that did not owe its existence to propagation by a parent.†   (source)
  • He dropped gradually back into his old frivolous and easygoing ways and conditions of feeling and manner of speech, and no familiar of his could have detected anything in him that differentiated him from the weak and careless Tom of other days.†   (source)
  • They consented to differentiate the armor so that a body could tell one team from the other, but that was the most they would do.†   (source)
  • So great an economic and social revolution as swept the South in '63 meant a weeding out among the Negroes of the incompetents and vicious, the beginning of a differentiation of social grades.†   (source)
  • Their churches are differentiating,—now into groups of cold, fashionable devotees, in no way distinguishable from similar white groups save in color of skin; now into large social and business institutions catering to the desire for information and amusement of their members, warily avoiding unpleasant questions both within and without the black world, and preaching in effect if not in word: Dum vivimus, vivamus.†   (source)
  • Or as if their heads are sacks, stuffed with some undifferentiated material, like flour or dough.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undifferentiated means not and reverses the meaning of differentiated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Individual orchards were blending together into an undifferentiated forest of silver and gray.†   (source)
  • The philosophy book, which is called The Meeting of East and West, by F. S. C. Northrop, suggests that greater cognizance be made of the "undifferentiated aesthetic continuum" from which the theoretic arises.†   (source)
  • My theory, and several others in the field agree, is that when people are born they have undifferentiated cells that haven't developed into what they are supposed to be.†   (source)
  • It would be better that way, I thought drowsily; then there'd be no need to stand before her and stumble over emotions and words that were at best all snarled up and undifferentiated ….†   (source)
  • Undifferentiated gathered materials.†   (source)
  • She would name things for me that previously existed only as parts of the undifferentiated landscape.†   (source)
  • The country had no clear image of what he looked like: his photographs had appeared on the covers of magazines as frequently as those of his predecessors in office, but people could never be quite certain which photographs were his and which were pictures of "a mail clerk" or "a white-collar worker," accompanying articles about the daily life of the undifferentiated-except that Mr. Thompson's collars were usually wilted.†   (source)
  • And from the height of the first-class deck you could see—from the quality of the vegetation, the change from imported ornamental trees to undifferentiated bush—how quickly the town ended, what a narrow strip of the riverbank it occupied.†   (source)
  • We exist not only separately but in undifferentiated blobs of matter.†   (source)
  • What, then, is the residue of many human minds put together, unaired, unspaced, undifferentiated?†   (source)
  • He was frightening by being so totally undifferentiated; he lacked even the positive distinction of a half-wit.†   (source)
  • The apprehension of the source of this undifferentiated yet everywhere particularized substratum of being is rendered frustrate by the very organs through which the apprehension must be accomplished.†   (source)
  • The sleeping castle is that ultimate abyss to which the descending consciousness submerges in dream, where the individual life is on the point ofdissolving into undifferentiated energy: and it would be death to dissolve; yet death, also, to lack the fire.†   (source)
  • The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces.†   (source)
  • Outside the undifferentiated forces roar; inside we are very private, very explicit, have a sense indeed, that it is here, in this little room, that we make whatever day of the week it may be.†   (source)
  • …stage in the process of understanding (it might be philosophy; science; it might be myself) while the fringe of my intelligence floating unattached caught those distant sensations which after a time the mind draws in and works upon; the chime of bells; general murmurs; vanishing figures; one girl on a bicycle who, as she rode, seemed to lift the corner of a curtain concealing the populous undifferentiated chaos of life which surged behind the outlines of my friends and the willow tree.†   (source)
  • Archer inclined to the former theory; he fancied that her New York was still completely undifferentiated, and the conjecture nettled him.†   (source)
  • The waves of the ocean of time, in their eternal monotone rhythm, washed Easter ashore, and the Berghof celebrated it, just as it took note of all time's Stages and turning points in order to avoid undifferentiated tedium.†   (source)
  • …argument between the ovists and animalculists, the former asserting that the egg contains a perfect little frog, dog, or human being and the sperm merely stimulates it to grow, the latter seeing the sperm as a living creature with preformed head, arms, and legs, which then found in the egg a medium on which to feed—until everyone finally agreed to grant equal merit in the process to egg and sperm, both of which had arisen out of what were originally undifferentiated reproductive cells.†   (source)
  • Already at that early day the two languages were so differentiated that they produced wholly distinct railroad nomenclatures.†   (source)
  • Must we accept the view of Empedocles of Trinacria that the right ovary (the postmenstrual period, assert others) is responsible for the birth of males or are the too long neglected spermatozoa or nemasperms the differentiating factors or is it, as most embryologists incline to opine, such as Culpepper, Spallanzani, Blumenbach, Lusk, Hertwig, Leopold and Valenti, a mixture of both?†   (source)
  • And simultaneously the voice of America began to take on its characteristic twang, and the speech of America began to differentiate itself boldly and unmistakably from the speech of England.†   (source)
  • Most of the existing discussions of slang spend themselves upon efforts to define it, and, in particular, upon efforts to differentiate it from idiomatic neologisms of a more legitimate type.†   (source)
  • The only variations that they show from standard English are the substitution of /n/ for /s/ as the distinguishing mark of the absolute form of the possessive, and the attempt to differentiate between the logical and the merely polite plurals in the second person by adding the usual sign of the plural to the former.†   (source)
  • /Ordinary/, like /extraordinary/, is commonly enunciated clearly, but it has bred a degenerated form, /onry/ or /onery/, differentiated in meaning.†   (source)
  • [30] L. Pearsall Smith, in The English Language, p. 29, says that "the differentiation is …. so complicated that it can hardly be mastered by those born in parts of the British Islands in which it has not yet been established"—/e. g./, all of Ireland and most of Scotland.†   (source)
  • Once it becomes, in Oliver Wendell Holmes' phrase, "a cheap generic term, a substitute for differentiated [Pg311] specific expressions," it quickly acquires such flatness that the fastidious flee it as a plague.†   (source)
  • For a long while, as we shall see, they sought to stem its differentiation by heavy denunciations of its vagaries, and so late as the period of the Civil War they attached to it that quality of abhorrent barbarism which they saw as the chief mark of the American people.†   (source)
  • [Pg063] III The Period of Growth § 1 /The New Nation/—The American language thus began to be recognizably differentiated from English in both vocabulary and pronunciation by the opening of the nineteenth century, but as yet its growth was hampered by two factors, the first being the lack of a national literature of any pretentions and the second being an internal political disharmony which greatly conditioned and enfeebled the national consciousness.†   (source)
  • …imitated, at least by a minority, in New York; and on the other hand the English, by so constantly having the floor, force upon us, out of their firmer resolution and certitude, a somewhat sneaking respect for their own greater conservatism of speech, so that our professors of the language, in the overwhelming main, combat all signs of differentiation with the utmost diligence, and safeguard the doctrine that the standards of English are the only reputable standards of American.†   (source)
  • In the first place, there is the effect of the confused and blundering effort, by an ignorant and unanalytical speaker, to give the perfect some grammatical differentiation when he finds himself getting into it—an excursion not infrequently made necessary by logical exigencies, despite his inclination to keep out.†   (source)
  • Now add to this general indifference a persistent and often violent effort to oppose any formal differentiation of English and American, initiated by English purists but heartily supported by various Americans, and you come, perhaps, to some understanding of the unsatisfactory state of the literature of the subject.†   (source)
  • Brother, I know I'm not the wisest one Nor the most learned man in Christendom But in moral matters my greatest coup Is to differentiate false from true.†   (source)
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