📖 Definitions of "Discerns"
verb
- 1
To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
- 2
To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
- 3
To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate.
"He was too young to discern right from wrong."
- 4
To perceive differences.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Discerns"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| distinguishverb | To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics. |
| tell apartverb | (idiomatic) To perceive things as different, or to perceive their difference itself; to differentiate, distinguish, discriminate. |
| recognizeverb | (transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing. |
| pick outverb | (transitive) To select. |
| make outverb | (slang, chiefly US, intransitive) To embrace and kiss passionately. |
| notesnoun | Acronym of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery. |
| observesverb | (transitive) To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail. |
| seesverb | (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw. |
| discernmentnoun | The ability to distinguish; judgement. |
| distinguishesverb | To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics. |
| delineatesverb | To describe or depict with words or gestures. |
| distinguishing | That serves to distinguish. |
| perceivesverb | (transitive) To become aware of, through the physical senses, to see; to understand. |
| distinguishable | Able, or easily able to be distinguished. |
| decipherverb | (transitive) To convert a code or cipher to plain text. |
| distinguishably | In a distinguishable way |
| decipheringnoun | decipherment |
| delineatingverb | To describe or depict with words or gestures. |
| detectsverb | To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing. |
| delineateverb | To describe or depict with words or gestures. |
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