Definition of Differentiate

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

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 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

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

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

In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.
Michael Berryman

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
Oliver Joseph Lodge

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.
Chris Evans

Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.
Abdurrahman Wahid

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
Art Blakey

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

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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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