Definition of Differentiate

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Differentiate

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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Differentiate Quotations

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.
Leo Buscaglia

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.
Alan Watts

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.
Anatole France

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
Bob Newhart

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.
Christian Bale

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.
Rebecca West

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West

Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression.
Ahmed Yassin

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
Hans Hofmann

Differentiate Translations

differentiate in Danish is skelne
differentiate in Dutch is uit elkaar houden, onderscheid maken
differentiate in German is differenzieren
differentiate in Portuguese is diferencie
differentiate in Spanish is diferenciar
differentiate in Swedish is skilja sig

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