Discern

Word DISCERN
Character 7
Hyphenation dis cern
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Definitions and meanings of "Discern"

What do we mean by discern?

To perceive with the eyes; detect or distinguish. transitive verb

To recognize or understand as being distinct or different: synonym: see. transitive verb

To distinguish; perceive the difference between(two or more things); discriminate.

To indicate or constitute the difference between; show the distinction between.

To see distinctly; separate mentally from the general mass of objects occupying the field of vision; perceive by the eye; descry.

To discover by the intellect; gain knowledge of; become aware of; distinguish.

Synonyms and To perceive, recognize, mark, note, espy, descry.

To perceive a difference or distinction; make or establish a distinction; discriminate: as, to discern between truth and falsehood.

To see; penetrate by the eye.

To have judicial cognizance: with of.

To see or understand the difference; to make distinction. intransitive verb

To make cognizance. intransitive verb

To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish. transitive verb

To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize. transitive verb

To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes. verb

To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry. verb

To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate. verb

To perceive differences. verb

Detect with the senses verb

To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.

To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.

To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate.

To perceive differences.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Discern

The word "discern" in example sentences

So that the pattern we are invited to discern is one of indifference and incompetence, perhaps, but certainly not racism? ❋ Unknown (2009)

But one of the few patterns I can actually discern is that during the hours when I tweet the book or website's URL, sales go up. ❋ Sovay (2009)

What you were perhaps unable so far to discern from the photographs (which would be exactly the effect desired by Dientzenhofer) is the circumstance that the altar painting which you can see (showing the martyrium of St. Dionysius by the Bamberg court painter Sebastian Reinhard from 1714) is not actually on the high altar. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I still managed to graduate in the top third of my class at UVA, which, although UVA has a strict policy of not publishing class rankings, I was able to discern from a slight knowledge of statistics and knowing that we were adhering to a B-mean rule in assigning grades. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The environmental extremes that the army encounters (freezing cold vs. baking heat) reflects the dual nature of the soldiers themselves; as you can discern from the following passage: ❋ Unknown (2008)

At least the uniforms form enterpise you can discern from a regualr dude to the captain, and heck those jumpsuits had pockets too, and zippers! ❋ Unknown (2007)

One truth that God allowed me to discern is that judging a group of people as wicked and evil because of their sexual orientation - and deeming them as unworthy of my association and unworthy of a relationship with God - was wrong. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Also, as you can discern from the top photo, there are two tables, each of which seat 2 or 3 comfortably. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As you can clearly discern from the look on my face, I was seeking a restroom. ❋ Apexdigest (2007)

Known officially as "Truck, Mine Protected Vehicle" (MPV), as readers will discern from the picture, this is based on the chassis of an articulated truck. ❋ Richard (2006)

In fact, what I have been able to discern is that this Administration sees the rule of law as a mere obstacle to policy implementation. ❋ Unknown (2005)

If you add all these techniques of finance together in the U.S. economy over the last fifteen years they account for 98 percent of total new capital formation, and from what I have been able to discern from the Canadian economy, the percentage is about the same in Canada. ❋ Unknown (1974)

Here's the list as I was able to discern from the code ... ldap_servers ldap_port ldap_base ldap_memberattr ldap_memberattr_format ldap_rootdn ldap_password ❋ Unknown (2010)

It had only a modest run on Broadway in 1979 and hasn't been performed anywhere in New York since 2001, and I regret to say that I think I know why: Mr. Stoppard's slightly right-of - center opinions, which are anathema to most theater people, are easier than usual to discern from the plot of "Night and Day," in which Dick Wagner (Shawn Douglass), an amiably unscrupulous left-wing foreign correspondent, wanders into an unnamed African country in search of hot copy and stumbles onto a story that blows up in his face. ❋ Terry Teachout (2010)

The only result that I’ve been able to discern is pigeon-holing of candidates – on both sides – into the stereotypes which may be somewhat true on the national scale (i.e. the “tree-hugging tax-and-spend democrat” and the “big business moneybags republican”) into places they really don’t belong on this scale, and even if those tags did apply, they wouldn’t really be relevant to local politics. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The other, wanting a proper name, I know not whether I may be allowed to call a sensible point, meaning thereby the least particle of matter or space we can discern, which is ordinarily about a minute, and to the sharpest eyes seldom less than thirty seconds of a circle, whereof the eye is the centre. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Here's the list as I was able to discern from the code ... ldap_servers ldap_port ldap_base ldap_memberattr ldap_memberattr_format ldap_rootdn ldap_password Try this (in ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Supreme Court thinks it already has a standard, namely discern the clear intent the voter delegating it to court officials, judges or election officials to look at ballots and decide if they determine a clear intent. ❋ Unknown (2000)

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