Verb

(en verb)

To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.

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, year=1875 , author=Jules Verne , title=The Survivors of the Chancellor , chapter=1 citation , passage=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.}}

To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.

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, year=1842 , author=Charles Dickens , title=American Notes for General Circulation citation , passage=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.}}

To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate.

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, year=1651 , author=Thomas Hobbes , title=Leviathan citation , passage=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.

To perceive differences.

Verb

(en verb)

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

* ...then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain... --Lev. 27:18, King James Version .

I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. .

To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

* He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke 23:37, King James Version

* For him I reckon not in high estate. .

To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

* ...faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Romans 4:9, King James Version.

* Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. .

To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause;

* For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. --Romans 8:18, King James Version.

* Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin... --Romans 6:11, King James Version

* I reckon he won't try that again.

To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

* Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he reckon shall." .