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Discern Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Discern?
[v] detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Discern: distinguish | make out | pick out | recognise | recognize | tell apart Related Terms | Find terms related to Discern: anticipate | appreciate | apprehend | ascertain | be acquainted with | be apprised of | be aware of | be cognizant of | be conscious of | be conversant with | be informed | behold | catch sight of | clap eyes on | cognize | come alive | comprehend | conceive | conceptualize | descry | detect | difference | differentiate | discover | discriminate | distinguish | divine | espy | extricate | fathom | foresee | glimpse | grasp | have | have in sight | have information about | have knowledge of | identify | ken | know | lay eyes on | look on | look upon | make out | note | notice | observe | penetrate | perceive | pick out | pick up | pierce | plumb | possess | prehend | realize | recognize | remark | savvy | see | see daylight | see into | see the light | see through | seize | sense | separate | sever | sight | spot | spy | take in | twig | understand | view | witness | wot | wot of See Also | comprehend | discriminate | perceive | resolve Discern In Webster's Dictionary \Dis*cern"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discerned}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Discerning}.] [F. discerner, L. discernere,
discretum; dis- + cernere to separate, distinguish. See
{Certain}, and cf. {Discreet}.]
1. To see and identify by noting a difference or differences;
to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to
distinguish.
To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms.
--Boyle.
A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern
from a right stone. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
2. To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and
recognize; as, to discern a difference.
And [I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned
among the youths, a young man void of understanding.
--Prov. vii.
7.
Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to
discern the minute texture of visible objects.
--Beattie.
I wake, and I discern the truth. --Tennyson.
Syn: To perceive; distinguish; discover; penetrate;
discriminate; espy; descry; detect. See {Perceive}.
\Dis*cern"\, v. i. 1. To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood. More than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand their left. --Jonah iv. 11. 2. To make cognizance. [Obs.] --Bacon. |
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