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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Using the eyes
accommodate
accommodation
all eyes are on someone/somethingidiom
astigmatic
beholder
cast
corner
fix
glare
have a butcher'sidiom
penetrating
perceive
re-see
re-sight
rest on someone/something
resurvey
rubbernecking
sighting
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Understanding and comprehending

discern | American Dictionary

discern
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈsɜrn, -ˈzɜrn/
to be able to see, recognize, understand, or decide something:
He could discern the note of urgency in their voices.
The exhibit is arranged in no important order that the viewer can discern.

Examples of discern

discern
The identity of these factors is unlikely to be discerned from demographic records and presumably reflects the influence of social changes.
In some cases, the difference is difficult to discern.
It is possibly much harder to discern in the later period.
Can we not discern certain relatively perduring features of speech that may not be unique to the individual?
Much archaeological research deals with periods and regions for which it is a real struggle to discern the agency of individuals.
A person who looks sharp dresses well; one who looks sharply is discerning.
Our unobtrusive measure (described below) allows us to discern respondents' opposition to affirmative action without requiring them to reveal their opposition to the survey interviewer.
Scope for use of stable carbon isotopes in discerning the incorporation of forest detritus into aquatic foodwebs.
In this enterprise of crossings and crossovers can be discerned the precursors of the hybrid genres now prominent in our own time.
This possibility warrants further study using a longitudinal design that can discern the direction of the association between externalizing disorder and interpersonal stress.
It was therefore difficult to discern the relative distribution of qualified and unqualified care management staff.
It is, however, in the discourse and practices of sanitary reconstruction espoused by urban authorities that the most significant continuities can be discerned.
As a path is traversed through the tree, a combination of motifs affecting expression is discerned.
European structures and developments can only be discerned in individual regions and nations when their particular qualities and features are more clearly demonstrated.
First, due to the naturalistic nature of our methods, it is more difficult to discern the true focus of a child's attention.
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