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Verb: single out  sing-gul awt
  1. Select from a group
    "She was singled out for her outstanding performance"
     
  2. Treat differently on the basis of factors such as sex, race, age, etc.
    - discriminate, separate

Derived forms: singled out, singles out, singling out

Type of: choose, differentiate, distinguish, pick out, secern [rare], secernate, select, separate, severalise [Brit], severalize, take, tell, tell apart