Word: distinguishing
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From the sidewalk, Herrera's new bank is hard to distinguish from all-the other international financial agencies that root their initials deep in the bureaucratic soil of Washington. IADB's planned capitalization is $959,476,000; by far the biggest share ($450 million) will come from the U.S. with the rest to be contributed by 19 other hemisphere republics* (see chart...
Furthermore, the singers are encouraged to wear makeup so similar that it becomes almost impossible to distinguish between them, especially between the Czarina's spy, the antagonists, and Prince Golitzin...
...muscles that change the shape of the lens. In the octopus eye the lens is moved back and forth, like that of a camera, to get a sharp focus. This arrangement seems to work efficiently for octopuses. In fact, the ghastly, slit-pupiled eyes of an octopus may even distinguish between different kinds of polarized light, an accomplishment that human eyes are unable to achieve...
Experiments of this kind have proved that the octopus can distinguish the shapes of objects that it sees and can judge their size and distance. A very large object makes the octopus turn pale and flatten down, presumably from fright. The octopus can tell a vertical object from the same object lying horizontal, but it cannot tell between mirror images-related shapes like right and left hands...
...Picture. When an octopus is blinded by having its optic nerves cut, it still has the delicate touch organs in its eight arms, but it cannot distinguish the shape or size of an object that it touches. All that it can feel is local roughness. The human brain gathers reports from many touch sensors, puts them together and builds up a picture of the object touched. The octopus brain cannot do this, even when several arms are touching the same object. Apparently its central intelligence does not even know clearly where its arms are. In other words, while the octopus...