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discern English

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discern Verb

— If you can discern a pattern, difference, or meaning you can notice, see, or identify it. It can be difficult to discern any pattern when there are so few examples. They were trying to discern whether anything had changed. His head was turned away so that she could not discern his features.

discern

— verb (= pick out, make out) 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

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distinguish perceive discriminate notice detect recognize observe descry spot discover understand see find tell apart recognise make out espy differentiate sense scent out realize pick out get wind of determine comprehend behold unravel trap trace think out think tell take notice surmise suppose strike spy sniff out snatch sight seize see through see in score scald run up against run across remark register recognize identify

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He can't discern fact from fiction.
With adequate lighting, one can easily discern Nosferatu, with his pointed incisors and extremely long-limbed fingers, known as arachnodaktyly, from common vampires.

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In this jumble of events, I seemed to discern an extraordinary logic.
Dark and deep, and thick with clouds o'erspread, mine eye in vain explored its bottom, nor could aught discern.
Your methods, so far as this court can discern, showed what we shall cautiously term an excess of zeal.
I can discern a Kiowa from an Apache from ten miles at night!
Then, I am unable to discern your problem.
It is almost impossible for the uninitiated to discern any connection between these two US Army majors.
Through the thin membranes, you can clearly discern the already perfect reptile.
Can you discern the secret amidst it all?
Sometimes we may find that purpose hard to discern, whether in others or in ourselves.
In my opinion, we can clearly discern the complex ruse and subtle treachery of secondary school teachers.
At this range, all I am able to discern is that it is an asymmetrical field of intense energy.
Swallowing this time, and see what else we can discern.
I am able to discern over 300 different vocalisations.
But I discern no superiority of manner, accomplishment, or understanding in the Dalrymples.
I discern.
Bardolph I discern.
Only through a prayer our soul can discern what's invisible.
He could compare, discern and judge, and apply his understanding to objects used in his instruction.
I can discern the name of F. Lurani, Michael.
Well, this next sample should be a little bit more difficult to discern, Al.
I believe we have seen enough to discern a pattern, Captain.
We couldn't discern any difference, not until we compared them on the oscilloscope.
But it's easy to discern the hidden purpose of the enterprise.
Ay, indeed. Discern'st thou aught in that?
It's absolute paradise. Then, I am unable to discern your problem.
In the feeble glimmer of the castle-yard lamps. it was impossible to discern their faces.
I can't for the life of me discern what purposes these articles might serve.
We must discern between private affairs and official business.
One can discern traces of congealed blood and drops resembling tears. - But otherwise it is simply a wall.
Then you must discern how the impossible has become possible.
How did you discern she was dead?
Tone is used to discern meaning when words aren't expressed.
That I cannot discern. But it is still viable within the Muo-ping.
Ted: AND IF YOU'RE OBSERVANT, YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO DISCERN TONIGHT'S THEME.

News and current affairs

Is it possible to discern a common thread to all of these developments?
Each factor deserves greater attention if we are to understand current housing market conditions and discern future price trends.
Of course, the precise return on investment in expanded preschool education is difficult to discern.
Contextual intelligence implies both a capability to discern trends in the face of complexity and adaptability while trying to shape events.
The contribution that inflation targeting makes to macroeconomic stability is difficult to discern for a simple reason: it is impossible to know what would happen if a country's central bank pursued the opposite course.
The harder it becomes to discern any rationality in the Bush administration's actions, the louder the rumor mill grinds.
The immediate causes of recovery are not difficult to discern.
We still cannot name its players, but we are aware of its interests and impact on events in the same way that astronomers discern a new but invisible planet by recording its impact on known and visible objects in space.
LONDON - As the world recovers from the Great Recession, it has become increasingly difficult to discern the true trend of events.
That ambition is not difficult to discern.
In a society where the enormous majority of people collaborated passively, active collaboration is hard to discern from passive.
HOUSTON - Russia watchers are rightly focusing on the latest brittle ceasefire in Ukraine, seeking to discern President Vladimir Putin's intentions there.
It is difficult now to discern a coherent pattern.
The cancer of violence is all too often found within the US, fed in part by the same inequality, alienation, lack of opportunity, and fervent search for absolute truth that we discern abroad.
They reflect changing investor psychology, which is hard to discern, and new information, which may still be amorphous and ambiguous.
It is hard to discern whether NATO has any opinion at all about the SCO.
The lower the level of redistribution, the more transparent and more economical it will be; and, the better it will satisfy those social needs which central authorities cannot discern.
PRINCETON - Though a solution to the euro crisis continues to elude European leaders, the foundations of one are not difficult to discern.
Looking back at 60 years of American involvement in the region, one can discern two scenarios in which the United States can bring the local players to an agreement.
That ambition is not difficult to discern. Putin once famously observed that the Soviet Union's collapse was the greatest catastrophe of the twentieth century.
Outsiders watching these shifts, and the Pakistani government's handling of them, have been unable to discern a consistent pattern that would explain Pakistani policy.
The difference is not difficult to discern.
Beyond the often partisan and quintessentially French polemics about Sarkozy's NATO decision, it is possible to discern what might best be termed a three-way wager by the French president.
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson made such an unexpected discovery in 1965, when their attempts to reduce the noise in their state-of-the-art radio antenna led them to discern the cosmic microwave background.
Otherwise, it will be difficult even to discern the outlines of a common future.
As for Ukraine, the way forward is difficult to discern - not least because of the conflicting experiences of buffer states in the past.

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