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The second picture has more pixels, but the human eye can't discern the difference.discern = notice or see (something that is not obvious)
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The study measured the ability of various age groups to discern slanted news reports.
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In the novel, she sees through his friendly facade and discerns his evil intent.discerns = understands
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The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. (source)discerns = notices or understands (something that is not obvious)
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...he could see nothing at all; then he began dimly to discern the green branches of pine trees, reaching through the mist. (source)discern = see something that is not easy to see
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It was an old model Ford, long and wide, a dark color I couldn't discern in the moon light. (source)discern = distinguish (to notice or understand something that is not obvious)
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Harry was staring unblinkingly ahead of him, trying to discern shapes through the gloom... (source)discern = make out (see or notice something not easy to see)
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At a second glance, however, Max discerned that there was something eerily similar about the eyes. (source)discerned = to notice something that is not obvious
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Though there had been no discernible change in the light since the sun and blue sky hadn't appeared that morning, it still felt like a darkness spread over the Glade. (source)discernible = possible to notice
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Your new acquaintance, for instance, discerns that the really big moment of his entire life occurred when he was a young man visiting a house in which there lived an old parson and his three daughters.† (source)discerns = notices things that are not obvious
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Him first the aged Priam's eyes discern'd, Scouring the plain, in arms all dazzling bright, Like to th' autumnal star, whose brilliant ray Shines eminent amid the depth of night, Whom men the dog-star of Orion call; The brightest he, but sign to mortal man Of evil augury, and fiery heat: So shone the brass upon the warrior's breast.† (source)
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The horizon is indiscernible in the dark, lost.† (source)indiscernible = impossible or difficult to notice or understandstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscernible means not and reverses the meaning of discernible. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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Inferno: Canto XXXIV "'Vexilla Regis prodeunt Inferni' Towards us; therefore look in front of thee," My Master said, "if thou discernest him."† (source)discernest = notice or understand somethingstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou discernest" in older English, today we say "You discern."
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Franny at that moment was gazing at a sunlit faded spot in the carpet over near the piano, her lips very discernibly moving.† (source)
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8:5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.† (source)discerneth = notices things that are not obviousstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She discerneth" in older English, today we say "She discerns."
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Yet so vast is the quantity of blood in him, and so distant and numerous its interior fountains, that he will keep thus bleeding and bleeding for a considerable period; even as in a drought a river will flow, whose source is in the well-springs of far-off and undiscernible hills.† (source)undiscernible = not possible to notice or understandstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undiscernible means not and reverses the meaning of discernible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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