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• The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.From the entry rod
• This antique chair has been overpainted to the point that you can't discern the carved details.From the entry overpaint
• The affected articulation of his opinions made it challenging to discern his true stance.From the entry affected
• The least count of a voltmeter is the minimum change that can be discerned.From the entry least count
• By acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.From the entry acuteness
• I take exception to the assumption that simply because I am young I am not able to discern fact from fiction.From the entry take exception
• I discern three interrelated levels at which startlement is experienced in Hitchcock.2016, D. A. Miller, Hidden Hitchcock, page 182. From the entry startlement
• Denomination does more than create space in which to discern, however.2011, Paul M. Collins, Barry A. Ensign-George, Denomination: Assessing an Ecclesiological Category, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry denomination
• It is likely that children often make decisions and discern truths by hunching.2010, Max Gunther, The Luck Factor. From the entry hunch
• Depending on the ore raised, they would sometimes need to discern several different types of ore.2004, Lynne Mayers, Balmaidens, →ISBN. From the entry buddler
• Music lovers have long discerned a splendid aural feast in the sounds of the gamelan.1998, Michael Tenzer, chapter 1, in Balinese Music, Berkeley: Periplus Editions, page 11. From the entry clangorous
• In his thought one discerns, telescoped, the thought of twenty centuries. . . .1945, Books Abroad 1945: Volume 19, Issue 2, University of Oklahoma, pages 118-119. From the entry ultradimensional
• If there are any footprints left behind, he will discern them at once.1917, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Fire Underwriters' Association of the Pacific. From the entry arsonite
• The way you talk to yourself is a good way to discern if reparenting might be useful to you, he said.2025 April 28, Madeline Holcombe, “It might be time to ‘reparent’ yourself. Here’s how to get started”, in CNN. From the entry reparenting
• Those in the party are also quick to dismiss the sometimes necessary Kremlinology needed to discern its strategic shifts.2019 July 1, Harry McGee, Fiach Kelly, “Bruised Sinn Féin looks inward as it takes a dive in the May elections”, in The Irish Times. From the entry Kremlinology
• Often it is difficult when reading a cossist text to discern where computational arithmetic leaves off and algebra begins.2018, Michael Sean Mahoney, The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665), page 5. From the entry cossist
• Looking inside the digital transmedium, we can discern distinct developments.2015, Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media. From the entry transmedium
• Plants’ life cycles are an attractive subject of study for citizen science because they are relatively easy to discern.2013 September-October, Kayri Havens, Sandra Henderson, “Citizen Science Takes Root”, in American Scientist. From the entry life cycle
• He had discerned that I was with child.2004, Linda Dorrell, The Trees of Eden: A Novel, Fleming H Revell Company, →ISBN. From the entry nascence
• Among the containers and utensils of the household, too, a variety of developments can be discerned from the vocabulary record.1998, Christopher Ehret, An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400, Charlottesville…. From the entry utensilry
• Can one discern a hard and fast line between the thoughtography of Ted Serios and old-fashioned spirit photography?1982, Hilary Evans, Intrusions: Society and the Paranormal. From the entry thoughtography
• Perhaps a more significant change can be discerned in the financing of temples and such activities as celebratory games.1982, Alan Wardman, chapter 4, in Religion and Statecraft among the Romans, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, page 100. From the entry manubial
• Moreover, the monkeys demonstrated an ability to discern when a call was directed at them and responded more accurately to such targeted communication.2024 August 29, “Marmoset Monkeys Use ‘Names’: A Leap in Primate Communication”, in ScienceBlog, retrieved 31 Aug 2024. From the entry phee-call
• Although the human eye can discern detail at both ends of this wide spectrum, the camera is unlikely to be as successful.2021, Peter Cavanagh, “1. Eagles”, in 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry African fish eagle
• Additionally, TEM images helped to discern nerve structures composed of several amyelinated axons (Fig. 2g ), numerous transport vesicles, microtubules, and mitochondria (Fig. 2h ).2015 May 27, Carolina Gálvez-Montón et al., “Neoinnervation and neovascularization of acellular pericardial-derived scaffolds in…. From the entry amyelinated
• In analysing them we discern various mechanisms which seem to us to cause them to "unchange," to be "things" and thus to survive.2013, G. Klir, Applied General Systems Research. From the entry unchange
• The ophidian beast began to glow eerily, and Aaron could discern a fine webwork of veins and capillaries running throughout the creature's body.2009, Thomas E. Sniegoski, The Fallen, Simon Pulse, published 2003, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry ophidian
• The Court is left with a proceeding so ill-defined that it is unable to discern an argument, or identify any specific material facts.2004 October 15, Judith A. Snider, “kisikawpemootewin v. Canada, 2004 FC 1426”, in CanLII, retrieved 07 Nov 2020. From the entry embarrass
• I'm sure the Attorney General and his representatives can discern what import and I hope the sentiment of the full Committee are.2001 July 10, John Conyers Jr., “Amendment to H.R. 2215 Offered by Mr. Conyers”, in 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations…. From the entry shot across the bow
• Had he looked further, he might have discerned an eighth—Canada's constitutional debate, complete with notwithstanding clauses, devolutions and non-derogations, asymmetries and distinct identities.1990, Keith Henderson, "Creative ambiguity" (Review of A Canadian Challenge by Christian Dufour), The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 15 Dec, p.…. From the entry notwithstanding clause
• He couldn’t say he was much more enlightened about all the magicianry, but he could now discern certain words in the Aniw language and parrot them back.2010, Karin Lowachee, The Gaslight Dogs, Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry magicianry
• As I got closer to the structure, I could just begin to discern some lettering out of the labelscar, followed by the inevitable palm to the forehead.2010 August 5, AmericanDirt, “Rolling back the pages of mega-retail history.”, in American Dirt, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2024. From the entry labelscar
• As more data comes to light do not forget the innernet, your own ability to discern what is beneficial for your own evolution as an inherently peaceful species.2008, Jasmuheen, Embassy of Peace – Universal Harmonization Program, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry innernet
• Since we don't get honest information from this White House, we must instead, as the Soviets once did, decode our rulers' fictions to discern what's really happening.2005 December 11, Frank Rich, “It Takes a Potemkin Village”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2021. From the entry Potemkin village
• The viewer discerns a series of photographs on the wall behind the couch, and a close-up later reveals that the pictures are of the royal family.2005, Mette Hjort, Scott Mackenzie, Cinema and Nation, page 104. From the entry hypersaturation
• As far as I can discern for now, only a few of the lessons learned were readily applicable to mainstream neoichnology and paleoichnology, but no matter.2004, Ichnology Newsletter, number 26, page 42. From the entry paleoichnology
• He does not see that it is the perversion (evasion, denial) of action that is the origin of the aggressivity that he discerns but cannot account for.2001, Brayton Polka, Depth Psychology, Interpretation, and the Bible: An Ontological Essay on Freud, McGill-Queen’s University Press…. From the entry aggressivity
• No person could be more ready to discern and to praise its graces; but, from the commencement of the Botanic Garden, the jealous spirit of authorism darkened his candor.1999, Gary Kelly, Jennifer Kelly, Anna Seward, Bluestocking feminism: writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1785. From the entry authorism

Meaning of discern

1. verb To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
2. verb To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
3. verb To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate or discriminate.

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How do you use discern in a sentence?

Discern is used as a verb. For example: “He was too young to discern right from wrong.”

What is a short sentence with discern?

“By acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.”

What does discern mean?

Discern means to detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.