{
    "term": "differentiate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "differentiate",
            "heSheIt": "differentiates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "differentiated",
        "pastParticiple": "differentiated",
        "ingForm": "differentiating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to recognize or show that two things are not the same",
            "sensetop": "differentiate (between) A and Bdifferentiate A (from B)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's difficult to differentiate between the two varieties.",
                    "contextForm": "differentiate (between) A and B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't differentiate one variety from another.",
                    "contextForm": "differentiate A (from B)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Birds are able to differentiate colours."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She can just differentiate between light and dark."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Teachers should differentiate clearly between different kinds of correction."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "distinguish",
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["clearly"],
                "verb + differentiate": [
                    "be important to",
                    "be easy to",
                    "be possible to"
                ],
                "preposition": ["between", "from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to be the particular thing that shows that things or people are not the same",
            "sensetop": "differentiate something (from something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The male's yellow beak differentiates it from the female."
                },
                {
                    "text": "features which clearly differentiate this product from other similar ones"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "distinguish",
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["clearly"],
                "verb + differentiate": [
                    "be important to",
                    "be easy to",
                    "be possible to"
                ],
                "preposition": ["between", "from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to treat people or things in a different way, especially in an unfair way",
            "sensetop": "differentiate (between A and B)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Rules that differentiate between employees on the basis of gender need to be revised."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to become more specialized during growth and development; to make a cell or tissue more specialized during growth and development",
            "sensetop": "differentiate (into something)differentiate something (into something)",
            "labels": "(biology)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The fertilized egg differentiates into several different cell types.",
                    "contextForm": "differentiate (into something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The receptors are developed and differentiated into sense organs.",
                    "contextForm": "differentiate something (into something)"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪfəˈrenʃieɪt/",
                "audio": "di/differentiate/differentiate__gb_5.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪfəˈrenʃieɪts/",
                "audio": "di/differentiate/differentiates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪfəˈrenʃieɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "di/differentiate/differentiated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪfəˈrenʃieɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/differentiate/differentiating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪfəˈrenʃieɪt/",
                "audio": "di/differentiate/differentiate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪfəˈrenʃieɪts/",
                "audio": "di/differentiate/differentiates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪfəˈrenʃieɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "di/differentiate/differentiated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌdɪfəˈrenʃieɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/differentiate/differentiating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 19th cent.: from medieval Latin differentiat- ‘carried away from’, from the verb differentiare, from differentia from different- ‘carrying away’, from the verb differre, from dis- ‘from, away’ + ferre ‘bring, carry’."
}