HOW TO PRONOUNCE
discern
/dɪˈsɝn/
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What does discern mean?
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 or discriminate.
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verb
- To perceive differences.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈsɝn/
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We can discern this kind of dwelling-house in many of the descriptions we have given of the ruins in the preceding chapter.
My ignorance will better excuse me in that I understand not Greek so well as to discern the beauty of his language.
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Immediate blindness occurred, or the dog could apparently just discern the difference between light and darkness, but could not distinguish particular objects.
He ascended a hill and could just discern ahead of him a waggon, drawn up under a great overhanging tree by the roadside.
He calls me e’en now, my lord, through a red lattice, and I could discern no part of his face from the window.