If you can make out, pick out, or distinguish something, you can discern it. This is a word for recognizing and perceiving things.
To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.
Verb
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"
v. t.
To see and identify by noting a difference or
differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to
distinguish.
v. t.
To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive
and recognize; as, to discern a difference.
v. i.
To see or understand the difference; to make
distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.
v. i.
To make cognizance.
Discern
To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms.
A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone.2.
And [I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.
Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects.
I wake, and I discern the truth.
Discern
More than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand their left.2.
To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.
To see or understand the difference; to make distinction;
Usage Examples
Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
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