SECERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does secern mean? 

• SECERN (verb)
  The verb SECERN has 1 sense:

1. mark as different

  Familiarity information: SECERN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECERN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they secern    ... he / she / it secerns   
Past simple: secerned   
Past participle: secerned   
-ing form: secerning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mark as different

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

differentiate; distinguish; secern; secernate; separate; severalise; severalize; tell; tell apart

Context example:

We distinguish several kinds of maple

Hypernyms (to "secern" is one way to...):

identify; place (recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something)

"Secern" entails doing...:

compare (examine and note the similarities or differences of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "secern"):

know (be able to distinguish, recognize as being different)

discriminate; know apart (recognize or perceive the difference)

label (distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions)

label (distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom)

sex (tell the sex (of young chickens))

individualise; individualize (make or mark or treat as individual)

contrast (put in opposition to show or emphasize differences)

have the distinction (be distinguished from others of a similar type by virtue of a notable characteristic)

severalise; severalize (distinguish or separate)

contradistinguish (distinguish by contrasting qualities)

decouple; dissociate (regard as unconnected)

demarcate (separate clearly, as if by boundaries)

discriminate; separate; single out (treat differently on the basis of sex or race)

stratify (divide society into social classes or castes)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody