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Discriminate vs Descry - What's the difference?

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Discriminate is a related term of descry.


In lang=en terms the difference between discriminate and descry

is that discriminate is to set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish while descry is to discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.

As verbs the difference between discriminate and descry

is that discriminate is to make distinctions while descry is to see.

As an adjective discriminate

is having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.

discriminate

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To make distinctions.
    • Since he was colorblind he was unable to discriminate between the blue and green bottles.
  • To make decisions based on prejudice.
    • The law prohibits discriminating against people based on their skin color.
  • To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
    • (Cowper)
  • * Barrow
    • To discriminate the goats from the sheep.

    Usage notes

    Due to the strong pejorative connotations of sense of “decide based on prejudice”, care should be taken in using the term in the sense “distinguish, make distinctions”, and this sense is primarily used in formal discourse; synonyms are generally used instead.

    Synonyms

    (make distinctions) * distinguish * differentiate

    Derived terms

    * discriminative * discriminatory

    Related terms

    * discriminant * discrimination * indiscriminate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.
    • (Francis Bacon)

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    descry

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To see.
  • To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Edmund, I think, is gone to descry / The strength o' the enemy.
  • * Milton
    • And now their way to earth they had descried .
  • * 1719 (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
    • When I had passed the vale where my bower stood
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • To discover; to disclose; to reveal.
  • * Milton
    • His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him.

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