distinguir

Sentences
An user
Se puede   distinguir   entre   deuda   financiera   bruta   y   neta .

A distinction can be made between gross and net financial debt.

An user
Para   distinguir   ambas   definiciones   a veces   se   introducen   símbolos   distintos .

To distinguish the two definitions, sometimes different symbols are introduced.

Meaning

  1. to distinguish, discern
  2. to differentiate, set apart
  3. to make out, manage to see, hear etc.
  4. (reflexive) to stand out, be distinguishable or differentiable, to distinguish oneself

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
dis‧tin‧guir
Pronounced as (IPA)
/distinˈɡiɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Latin distinguere.

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