All 5 Uses of
discern
in
The Bourne Supremacy
- Yet another part of him was like a scientist filled with a cold anxiety as he peered into the clouded lens of a microscope trying to discern what his eye and his mind could understand.†
Chpt 8discern = notice or understand something
- I had to be with your team because I could discern trouble with the tribes and the village chiefs that others could not — which had little to do with my alphabetical symbol.†
Chpt 16
- Torches, perhaps, for there was nothing constant about the barely discernible light.†
Chpt 26discernible = possible to notice or understand
- Down in the southern perimeter of the field, on both sides of the runway and barely discernible, were five aircraft, all props and none imposing.†
Chpt 29
- He looked up at the fire escape, at the barely discernible outline of the impostor's body.
Chpt 30 *discernible = noticeable
Definition:
to notice or understand something -- often something that is not obvious