differentiate
Speech parts
1. differentiate - Noun
2. differentiate - Verb
Meaning
To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to specialize; to desynonymize.
To express the specific difference of; to describe the properties of (a thing) whereby it is differenced from another of the same class; to discriminate.
To obtain the differential, or differential coefficient, of; as, to differentiate an algebraic expression, or an equation.
To acquire a distinct and separate character.
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.