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discern 音标拼音: [dɪs'ɚn] vt.
vi. 辨别,看清楚 辨别,看清楚 discern v 1: 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" [ synonym: { spot}, { recognize}, { recognise}, { distinguish}, { discern}, { pick out}, { make out}, { tell apart}] Discern \ Dis* cern"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Discerned}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Discerning}.] [ F. discerner, L. discernere, discretum; dis- cernere to separate, distinguish. See { Certain}, and cf. { Discreet}.] 1. To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish. [ 1913 Webster] To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. -- Boyle. [ 1913 Webster] A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone. -- Robynson ( More' s Utopia). [ 1913 Webster] 2. To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference. [ 1913 Webster] And [ I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding. -- Prov. vii. 7. [ 1913 Webster] Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects. -- Beattie. [ 1913 Webster] I wake, and I discern the truth. -- Tennyson. Syn: To perceive; distinguish; discover; penetrate; discriminate; espy; descry; detect. See { Perceive}. [ 1913 Webster]
Discern \ Dis* cern"\, v. i. 1. To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood. [ 1913 Webster] More than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand their left. -- Jonah iv. 11. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To make cognizance. [ Obs.] -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 78 Moby Thesaurus words for " discern": anticipate, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, be acquainted with, be apprised of, be aware of, be cognizant of, be conscious of, be conversant with, be informed, behold, catch sight of, clap eyes on, cognize, come alive, comprehend, conceive, conceptualize, descry, detect, difference, differentiate, discover, discriminate, distinguish, divine, espy, extricate, fathom, foresee, glimpse, grasp, have, have in sight, have information about, have knowledge of, identify, ken, know, lay eyes on, look on, look upon, make out, note, notice, observe, penetrate, perceive, pick out, pick up, pierce, plumb, possess, prehend, realize, recognize, remark, savvy, see, see daylight, see into, see the light, see through, seize, sense, separate, sever, sight, spot, spy, take in, twig, understand, view, witness, wot, wot of
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