Both Uses

differentiate
in
Fast Food Nation
(Edited)

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.
p. 60.6

differentiate = recognize difference
Taste is supposed to help us differentiate food that's good for us from food that's not.
p. 123.1 *

differentiate = recognize difference between

Definitions:

(1) (differentiate as in: differentiate between right/wrong)
to recognize difference
(2) (differentiate as in: differentiate our product)
to make different; or to show difference
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
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