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Distinguished vs Discerned - What's the difference?

distinguished | discerned |

As verbs the difference between distinguished and discerned

is that distinguished is (distinguish) while discerned is (discern).

As an adjective distinguished

is celebrated, well-known or eminent because of past achievements; prestigious.

distinguished

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • celebrated, well-known or eminent because of past achievements; prestigious
    • The lecture was attended by many distinguished mathematicians.
  • Having a dignified appearance or demeanor
    • Her father was a distinguished gentleman, albeit a poor one.
  • (mathematics) Specified, noted.
    • Let ''X'' be a topological space with a distinguished point ''p''.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (distinguish)

    • discerned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (discern)

    • Anagrams

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    discern

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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.

    • Derived terms

    * discernible * discernment * indiscernible

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