0 past simple and past participle of discern
1 to see, recognize, or understand something that is not clear:
We quickly discerned a mutual interest in philosophy of healthcare as well as the foundations of clinical bioethics.
For example, predation strategies can only be discerned through comparison of assemblages for which postdepositional histories and the influence of chemical weathering are demonstrably equivalent.
Nevertheless, indications of priorities, potential barriers and possible outcomes can be discerned.
Changes in reading patterns were discerned, from reading novels to short stories, and from journals and magazines to the daily newspaper.
Here only the chromatic descent will be discerned: the darkness has finally made the outline of the butterflies that cause it invisible.
Tracing their contributions shows how national consciousness can be discerned long before the ' nationalism ' classically exemplified in 1848 or sometimes ante-dated to 1707.
These works tend to be either occasional/celebratory or mythological, and to date no covert or subversive commentaries have been discerned in them.
In order to determine the amount of the subsidy, several relevant risk groups are discerned.
