Definition of discern in English:

discern

verb dɪˈsəːndəˈsərn

[with object]

1Recognize or find out.
I can discern no difference between the two policies
with clause pupils quickly discern what is acceptable to the teacher
Example sentencesExamples
- Much could be discerned about national style from the effort.
- A very similar syndrome can be discerned in the government's handling of security on airlines.
- So far, what can be discerned from the main manifestos is an almost complete consensus.
- With its limited focus upon a day where a number of important issues came to a head, incomplete or biased coverage could quickly be discerned.
- Four major periods may be discerned in its development.
- Many symbols have been discerned in his pictures.
- Between the two names, no effective difference can be discerned.
- From the annals of Indian history, it can be discerned that the role of women in the society is no less than men.
- In many cases, statistically significant differences could be discerned by participants.
- Even now her life has been dissected, and the verdicts returned, we are no closer to discerning the real person.
- Several types of racism and violence can be discerned.
- Such an analysis entails establishing whether a judgemental stance can be discerned in the items being coded and what the nature of the judgements is.
- Readers will have readily discerned a further symbol.
- There is no obvious reason, no cyclical pattern that can be discerned for these ups and downs.
- It is up to the teacher to discern which students are up to the task and which are not.
- All the landholding data he cited pertained to a single point of time from which no time-trend can possibly be discerned.
- The historical setting never feels remote, as echoes of our days can be discerned between the lines.
- Like coin tosses, there may be no salient causation to be discerned in the outcomes.
- And the polls suggest that the benign effects of increased government spending have at last been discerned by the electorate.
- Perhaps they failed to do so because they have not developed much of a pattern from which the early draft of history can be discerned.
Synonyms
find out, discover, come to know, get to know, work out, make out, fathom, fathom out, become aware of, learn, ferret out, dig out, dig up, establish, fix, determine, settle, decide, verify, make certain of, confirm, deduce, divine, intuit, diagnose, perceive, see, realize, appreciate, identify, pin down, recognize, register, understand, grasp, take in, comprehend
1. 1.1 Distinguish (someone or something) with difficulty by sight or with the other senses.
  she could faintly discern the shape of a skull
  Example sentencesExamples
  Using touch alone it's difficult to discern individual buttons on this phone.
  A laugh, golden and delicious, floated up to him on the breeze and he leaned over the railing, peering down and faintly discerning the hedge wall of the royal garden beneath him.
  He discerns a vague sense of creepiness, as if the shadows of the night are trying to communicate the strange message he is delivering.
  The sauce was thick, almost like a gravy, and bits of squid and various other fruits of the sea could be discerned in it.
  Her feline sensitive ears could discern a distinct cry coming from each man's mouth.
  Some of their protuberances project close to a metre above what can be vaguely discerned as the original road surface.
  One hand shading his eyes, he discerns either two people or two life-sized statues seated facing each other at a vintage picnic table at the very back of a great and empty white room.
  A charming, and thankfully short, tune with two different and rather difficult to discern time signatures.
  Sea conditions were similar to the day before, and I was able to discern the shape of the wreck from 60m on.
  And then, he slowly discerned the shape of a grotesque beast, clamping to the trunk as if its skin and the brown bark were one.
  Her eyes barely discerned the shape of the hollow log across the river.
  As I approached the chair I was able to discern some, but not all, of their characteristics.
  An observant viewer of the Double portrait will discern the remains of a burnt-out candle in the front right sconce.
  The dense foliage and shrubs made discerning the steepness very difficult until you were actually up in the gulley scrambling around.
  They seem to be able to discern flavours more easily and to identify, discriminate and remember flavours better.
  They began to discern shapes, touching them and discovering them again as if from new.
  Only those with dyslexia had difficulty discerning the beat in continuous sounds containing sudden rises and falls in loudness, as in such speech transitions as sweet.
  It gives us some of the infrared we need to discern the shapes in the current darkness.
  The fingers keep up their exploratory wiggling, each discovering how far it can reach and in what directions it can move, each discerning the shape and feel of the others.
  I could barely discern the huddled shape of my parents standing in their doorway.
  Synonyms
  perceive, make out, pick out, detect, recognize, notice, observe, see, spot
  identify, determine, distinguish, differentiate, discriminate, tell apart
  become cognizant of, become aware of, become conscious of
  literary descry, espy

Derivatives

discerner

noun

But where we find our true calling in this fight, is against the judgmental way that these other discerners speak out.
Example sentencesExamples
- Instead of a passive receiver of information, the viewer is engaged as a highly activated questioner and discerner of aesthetic relationships.
- He, who is satisfied through the Guru grace, becomes the discerner of the Guru's word.
- When truly indifferent, the will of the discerner regarding the alternatives for choice is like a balance at equilibrium.
- Instead, it was an opportunity for us to not only be passive receivers of news product but discerners of true knowledge.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin discernere, from dis- 'apart' + cernere 'to separate'.

crime from Middle English:
The early meanings of crime were ‘wickedness’ and ‘sin’. The word comes via Old French from Latin crimen ‘judgement or offence’, which was based on cernere ‘to judge’ also in concern (Late Middle English), recriminate (early 17th century), and discern (Late Middle English). The expression crime doesn't pay was a slogan associated with the 1930s American radio crime series The Shadow, in which it was spoken by the Shadow at the end of each broadcast. It originated earlier, though, and was the title of a silent film in 1912.

Rhymes

adjourn, astern, Berne, burn, churn, concern, earn, fern, fohn, kern, learn, Lucerne, quern, Sauternes, spurn, stern, Sterne, tern, terne, Traherne, turn, urn, Verne, yearn

Definition of discern in US English:

discern

verbdəˈsərndəˈsərn

[with object]

1Perceive or recognize (something)
I can discern no difference between the two policies
with clause students quickly discern what is acceptable to the teacher
Example sentencesExamples
- Four major periods may be discerned in its development.
- So far, what can be discerned from the main manifestos is an almost complete consensus.
- A very similar syndrome can be discerned in the government's handling of security on airlines.
- There is no obvious reason, no cyclical pattern that can be discerned for these ups and downs.
- Several types of racism and violence can be discerned.
- With its limited focus upon a day where a number of important issues came to a head, incomplete or biased coverage could quickly be discerned.
- Readers will have readily discerned a further symbol.
- The historical setting never feels remote, as echoes of our days can be discerned between the lines.
- And the polls suggest that the benign effects of increased government spending have at last been discerned by the electorate.
- Between the two names, no effective difference can be discerned.
- It is up to the teacher to discern which students are up to the task and which are not.
- From the annals of Indian history, it can be discerned that the role of women in the society is no less than men.
- Even now her life has been dissected, and the verdicts returned, we are no closer to discerning the real person.
- In many cases, statistically significant differences could be discerned by participants.
- Perhaps they failed to do so because they have not developed much of a pattern from which the early draft of history can be discerned.
- Such an analysis entails establishing whether a judgemental stance can be discerned in the items being coded and what the nature of the judgements is.
- Many symbols have been discerned in his pictures.
- All the landholding data he cited pertained to a single point of time from which no time-trend can possibly be discerned.
- Much could be discerned about national style from the effort.
- Like coin tosses, there may be no salient causation to be discerned in the outcomes.
Synonyms
find out, discover, come to know, get to know, work out, make out, fathom, fathom out, become aware of, learn, ferret out, dig out, dig up, establish, fix, determine, settle, decide, verify, make certain of, confirm, deduce, divine, intuit, diagnose, perceive, see, realize, appreciate, identify, pin down, recognize, register, understand, grasp, take in, comprehend
1. 1.1 Distinguish (someone or something) with difficulty by sight or with the other senses.
  she could faintly discern the shape of a skull
  Example sentencesExamples
  As I approached the chair I was able to discern some, but not all, of their characteristics.
  One hand shading his eyes, he discerns either two people or two life-sized statues seated facing each other at a vintage picnic table at the very back of a great and empty white room.
  Her feline sensitive ears could discern a distinct cry coming from each man's mouth.
  A charming, and thankfully short, tune with two different and rather difficult to discern time signatures.
  Her eyes barely discerned the shape of the hollow log across the river.
  The dense foliage and shrubs made discerning the steepness very difficult until you were actually up in the gulley scrambling around.
  They seem to be able to discern flavours more easily and to identify, discriminate and remember flavours better.
  A laugh, golden and delicious, floated up to him on the breeze and he leaned over the railing, peering down and faintly discerning the hedge wall of the royal garden beneath him.
  It gives us some of the infrared we need to discern the shapes in the current darkness.
  And then, he slowly discerned the shape of a grotesque beast, clamping to the trunk as if its skin and the brown bark were one.
  He discerns a vague sense of creepiness, as if the shadows of the night are trying to communicate the strange message he is delivering.
  Sea conditions were similar to the day before, and I was able to discern the shape of the wreck from 60m on.
  Only those with dyslexia had difficulty discerning the beat in continuous sounds containing sudden rises and falls in loudness, as in such speech transitions as sweet.
  Using touch alone it's difficult to discern individual buttons on this phone.
  They began to discern shapes, touching them and discovering them again as if from new.
  An observant viewer of the Double portrait will discern the remains of a burnt-out candle in the front right sconce.
  I could barely discern the huddled shape of my parents standing in their doorway.
  Some of their protuberances project close to a metre above what can be vaguely discerned as the original road surface.
  The fingers keep up their exploratory wiggling, each discovering how far it can reach and in what directions it can move, each discerning the shape and feel of the others.
  The sauce was thick, almost like a gravy, and bits of squid and various other fruits of the sea could be discerned in it.
  Synonyms
  perceive, make out, pick out, detect, recognize, notice, observe, see, spot

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin discernere, from dis- ‘apart’ + cernere ‘to separate’.

单词	discern
释义	Definition of discern in English: discern verb dɪˈsəːndəˈsərn [with object] 1Recognize or find out. I can discern no difference between the two policies with clause pupils quickly discern what is acceptable to the teacher Example sentencesExamples Much could be discerned about national style from the effort. A very similar syndrome can be discerned in the government's handling of security on airlines. So far, what can be discerned from the main manifestos is an almost complete consensus. With its limited focus upon a day where a number of important issues came to a head, incomplete or biased coverage could quickly be discerned. Four major periods may be discerned in its development. Many symbols have been discerned in his pictures. Between the two names, no effective difference can be discerned. From the annals of Indian history, it can be discerned that the role of women in the society is no less than men. In many cases, statistically significant differences could be discerned by participants. Even now her life has been dissected, and the verdicts returned, we are no closer to discerning the real person. Several types of racism and violence can be discerned. Such an analysis entails establishing whether a judgemental stance can be discerned in the items being coded and what the nature of the judgements is. Readers will have readily discerned a further symbol. There is no obvious reason, no cyclical pattern that can be discerned for these ups and downs. It is up to the teacher to discern which students are up to the task and which are not. All the landholding data he cited pertained to a single point of time from which no time-trend can possibly be discerned. The historical setting never feels remote, as echoes of our days can be discerned between the lines. Like coin tosses, there may be no salient causation to be discerned in the outcomes. And the polls suggest that the benign effects of increased government spending have at last been discerned by the electorate. Perhaps they failed to do so because they have not developed much of a pattern from which the early draft of history can be discerned. Synonyms find out, discover, come to know, get to know, work out, make out, fathom, fathom out, become aware of, learn, ferret out, dig out, dig up, establish, fix, determine, settle, decide, verify, make certain of, confirm, deduce, divine, intuit, diagnose, perceive, see, realize, appreciate, identify, pin down, recognize, register, understand, grasp, take in, comprehend 1.1 Distinguish (someone or something) with difficulty by sight or with the other senses. she could faintly discern the shape of a skull Example sentencesExamples Using touch alone it's difficult to discern individual buttons on this phone. A laugh, golden and delicious, floated up to him on the breeze and he leaned over the railing, peering down and faintly discerning the hedge wall of the royal garden beneath him. He discerns a vague sense of creepiness, as if the shadows of the night are trying to communicate the strange message he is delivering. The sauce was thick, almost like a gravy, and bits of squid and various other fruits of the sea could be discerned in it. Her feline sensitive ears could discern a distinct cry coming from each man's mouth. Some of their protuberances project close to a metre above what can be vaguely discerned as the original road surface. One hand shading his eyes, he discerns either two people or two life-sized statues seated facing each other at a vintage picnic table at the very back of a great and empty white room. A charming, and thankfully short, tune with two different and rather difficult to discern time signatures. Sea conditions were similar to the day before, and I was able to discern the shape of the wreck from 60m on. And then, he slowly discerned the shape of a grotesque beast, clamping to the trunk as if its skin and the brown bark were one. Her eyes barely discerned the shape of the hollow log across the river. As I approached the chair I was able to discern some, but not all, of their characteristics. An observant viewer of the Double portrait will discern the remains of a burnt-out candle in the front right sconce. The dense foliage and shrubs made discerning the steepness very difficult until you were actually up in the gulley scrambling around. They seem to be able to discern flavours more easily and to identify, discriminate and remember flavours better. They began to discern shapes, touching them and discovering them again as if from new. Only those with dyslexia had difficulty discerning the beat in continuous sounds containing sudden rises and falls in loudness, as in such speech transitions as sweet. It gives us some of the infrared we need to discern the shapes in the current darkness. The fingers keep up their exploratory wiggling, each discovering how far it can reach and in what directions it can move, each discerning the shape and feel of the others. I could barely discern the huddled shape of my parents standing in their doorway. Synonyms perceive, make out, pick out, detect, recognize, notice, observe, see, spot identify, determine, distinguish, differentiate, discriminate, tell apart become cognizant of, become aware of, become conscious of literary descry, espy Derivatives discerner noun But where we find our true calling in this fight, is against the judgmental way that these other discerners speak out. Example sentencesExamples Instead of a passive receiver of information, the viewer is engaged as a highly activated questioner and discerner of aesthetic relationships. He, who is satisfied through the Guru grace, becomes the discerner of the Guru's word. When truly indifferent, the will of the discerner regarding the alternatives for choice is like a balance at equilibrium. Instead, it was an opportunity for us to not only be passive receivers of news product but discerners of true knowledge. Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin discernere, from dis- 'apart' + cernere 'to separate'. crime from Middle English: The early meanings of crime were ‘wickedness’ and ‘sin’. The word comes via Old French from Latin crimen ‘judgement or offence’, which was based on cernere ‘to judge’ also in concern (Late Middle English), recriminate (early 17th century), and discern (Late Middle English). The expression crime doesn't pay was a slogan associated with the 1930s American radio crime series The Shadow, in which it was spoken by the Shadow at the end of each broadcast. It originated earlier, though, and was the title of a silent film in 1912. Rhymes adjourn, astern, Berne, burn, churn, concern, earn, fern, fohn, kern, learn, Lucerne, quern, Sauternes, spurn, stern, Sterne, tern, terne, Traherne, turn, urn, Verne, yearn Definition of discern in US English: discern verbdəˈsərndəˈsərn [with object] 1Perceive or recognize (something) I can discern no difference between the two policies with clause students quickly discern what is acceptable to the teacher Example sentencesExamples Four major periods may be discerned in its development. So far, what can be discerned from the main manifestos is an almost complete consensus. A very similar syndrome can be discerned in the government's handling of security on airlines. There is no obvious reason, no cyclical pattern that can be discerned for these ups and downs. Several types of racism and violence can be discerned. With its limited focus upon a day where a number of important issues came to a head, incomplete or biased coverage could quickly be discerned. Readers will have readily discerned a further symbol. The historical setting never feels remote, as echoes of our days can be discerned between the lines. And the polls suggest that the benign effects of increased government spending have at last been discerned by the electorate. Between the two names, no effective difference can be discerned. It is up to the teacher to discern which students are up to the task and which are not. From the annals of Indian history, it can be discerned that the role of women in the society is no less than men. Even now her life has been dissected, and the verdicts returned, we are no closer to discerning the real person. In many cases, statistically significant differences could be discerned by participants. Perhaps they failed to do so because they have not developed much of a pattern from which the early draft of history can be discerned. Such an analysis entails establishing whether a judgemental stance can be discerned in the items being coded and what the nature of the judgements is. Many symbols have been discerned in his pictures. All the landholding data he cited pertained to a single point of time from which no time-trend can possibly be discerned. Much could be discerned about national style from the effort. Like coin tosses, there may be no salient causation to be discerned in the outcomes. Synonyms find out, discover, come to know, get to know, work out, make out, fathom, fathom out, become aware of, learn, ferret out, dig out, dig up, establish, fix, determine, settle, decide, verify, make certain of, confirm, deduce, divine, intuit, diagnose, perceive, see, realize, appreciate, identify, pin down, recognize, register, understand, grasp, take in, comprehend 1.1 Distinguish (someone or something) with difficulty by sight or with the other senses. she could faintly discern the shape of a skull Example sentencesExamples As I approached the chair I was able to discern some, but not all, of their characteristics. One hand shading his eyes, he discerns either two people or two life-sized statues seated facing each other at a vintage picnic table at the very back of a great and empty white room. Her feline sensitive ears could discern a distinct cry coming from each man's mouth. A charming, and thankfully short, tune with two different and rather difficult to discern time signatures. Her eyes barely discerned the shape of the hollow log across the river. The dense foliage and shrubs made discerning the steepness very difficult until you were actually up in the gulley scrambling around. They seem to be able to discern flavours more easily and to identify, discriminate and remember flavours better. A laugh, golden and delicious, floated up to him on the breeze and he leaned over the railing, peering down and faintly discerning the hedge wall of the royal garden beneath him. It gives us some of the infrared we need to discern the shapes in the current darkness. And then, he slowly discerned the shape of a grotesque beast, clamping to the trunk as if its skin and the brown bark were one. He discerns a vague sense of creepiness, as if the shadows of the night are trying to communicate the strange message he is delivering. Sea conditions were similar to the day before, and I was able to discern the shape of the wreck from 60m on. Only those with dyslexia had difficulty discerning the beat in continuous sounds containing sudden rises and falls in loudness, as in such speech transitions as sweet. Using touch alone it's difficult to discern individual buttons on this phone. They began to discern shapes, touching them and discovering them again as if from new. An observant viewer of the Double portrait will discern the remains of a burnt-out candle in the front right sconce. I could barely discern the huddled shape of my parents standing in their doorway. Some of their protuberances project close to a metre above what can be vaguely discerned as the original road surface. The fingers keep up their exploratory wiggling, each discovering how far it can reach and in what directions it can move, each discerning the shape and feel of the others. The sauce was thick, almost like a gravy, and bits of squid and various other fruits of the sea could be discerned in it. Synonyms perceive, make out, pick out, detect, recognize, notice, observe, see, spot Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin discernere, from dis- ‘apart’ + cernere ‘to separate’.
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