Word: distinguisher
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...Literally, cactus plants, used to distinguish the supposedly tougher natives from the tenderfoot newcomers...
...correction of a detached retina." It was not certain whether the retina had been loosened when the card hit Farley or when he snapped his head back at the blow, but it was plain after the operation that Farley's eyesight would still be good enough to distinguish a Democrat from a Republican...
Compact Eye. The extremely sensitive radar that can distinguish closely adjacent targets, e.g., boats in an amphibious landing is now cumbersome and complex. Last week Sylvania Electric Products Inc disclosed a new cathode-ray tube that will cut the size of present radar receiving units by about four-fifths. Developed with the Navy, the "wamoscope" (a derivative of wave-modulated oscilloscope) uses a single tube to detect, amplify and display target blips, eliminating a dozen tubes and components, including such standard terns as detectors and amplifiers. All three armed forces are excited about the wammy. Said Dr. Robert Guthrie, Navy...
...sapped. At the height of the cold war each side knew where it stood; now the Communists seek to blur distinctions, so that Moscow Communism fades imperceptibly into "independent" Communism, which in turn fades imperceptibly into neutralism, so that in time the neutralist may be hard to distinguish from the indifferent antagonist. In all this blurring of attitudes, Tito is useful, and the old hacks...
...disgust, which he does by combining familiar objects in unfamiliar ways until they become surreal and emetic. In Gaston he describes a rat: "It looked rather like a great hairy carrot; it crouched there as all rats do, as soon as dusk has fallen and there is nothing to distinguish them from a lost slipper or a forgotten rag except that long worm lying along the floor . . . that suspicious-looking shoelace that will suddenly, swift as a whipped top, grow tense with terror." Gaston of the title is a black-spotted rat, as big as a rabbit...