Definition of discerns Discerns
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What does discerns mean?
Part of speech
🔤- discerns, verb, present, 3rd person singular of discern (infinitive).
WordNet
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| discern - 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" | ||
| spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, pick out, make out, tell apart | ||
| resolve find the solution; "solve an equation"; "solve for x" | ||
| discriminate recognize or perceive the difference | ||
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Wiktionary 
- discern (Verb)
To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes. - discern (Verb)
To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry. - discern (Verb)
To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate. - discern (Verb)
To perceive differences.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- discern (v. t.)
To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish. - discern (v. t.)
To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference. - discern (v. i.)
To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood. - discern (v. i.)
To make cognizance.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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discern
To see, discover or determine something, unclear, distant or hidden, by looking carefully. -
discern
To detect with the senses.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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discern
diz-ėrn′, v.t. to distinguish clearly by the eye or understanding: to judge (sometimes with between).—n. Discern′er.—adj. Discern′ible.—adv. Discern′ibly.—p.adj. Discern′ing, discriminating, acute.—n. Discern′ment, power or faculty of discriminating: judgment: acuteness. [L. discern˘ere—dis, thoroughly, and cernĕre, to sift, perceive.]
Part of speech
🔤- discern, verb, present, 1st person singular of discern (infinitive).
- discern, verb (infinitive).
