- 1. v. t. To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish. Source: opted
- 2. v. t. To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference. Source: opted
- 3. v. i. To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood. Source: opted
- 4. v. i. To make cognizance. Source: opted
- 5. v. detect with the senses Source: wordnet
- 6. 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. 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. Source: webster
- 7. v:100 v detect with the senses Source: ecdict
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