discern

အင်္ဂလိပ်

အသံထွက်

• (UK) IPA: /dɪˈsɜːn/, SAMPA: /dI"s3:n/
• (US) IPA: /dɪˈsɝn/, SAMPA: /dI"s3`n/

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ကြိယာ

to discern (third-person singular simple present discerns, present participle discerning, simple past and past participle discerned)

1. (ကံလို) မြင်တွေ့သည်။
   • 1875, Jules Verne, chapter 1, The Survivors of the Chancellor^[၁]:

     Meanwhile the brig had altered her tack, and was moving slowly to the east. Three hours later and the keenest eye could not have discerned her top-sails above the horizon.

2. (ကံလို) သိမြင်သည်။ သိရှိနားလည်သည်။
   • 1842, Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation^[၂]:

     If they discern any evidences of wrong-going in any direction that I have indicated, they will acknowledge that I had reason in what I wrote. If they discern no such thing, they will consider me altogether mistaken.

3. (ကံလို) ခဲွခြားသိမြင်သည်။
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan^[၃]:

     The severity of judgement, they say, makes men censorious and unapt to pardon the errors and infirmities of other men: and on the other side, celerity of fancy makes the thoughts less steady than is necessary to discern exactly between right and wrong.

   He was too young to discern right from wrong.

ဆင့်ပွားအသုံးများ

• discernible
• discernment
• indiscernible