different between discern vs deem

English

Etymology

From Middle English discernen, from Old French discerner, from Latin discernere (“to separate, divide, distinguish, discern”), from dis- (“apart”) + cernere (“to separate”); see certain.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)n

(modern pronunciation)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??s??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??s?n/

(older pronunciation)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??z??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??z?n/

Verb

discern (third-person singular simple present discerns, present participle discerning, simple past and past participle discerned)

1. (transitive) To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
2. (transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
3. (transitive) To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate.

4. (intransitive) To perceive differences.

Synonyms

• (detect with the senses): See also Thesaurus:perceive
  • (especially with the eyes): behold, see; see also Thesaurus:see
• (perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind): ken, spy; see also Thesaurus:spot
• (distinguish something as being different): discriminate, distinguish; see also Thesaurus:tell apart

Derived terms

• discernible
• discernment
• indiscernible

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Cinders, cinders, rescind

English

Etymology

From Middle English d??men (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English d?man (“to decide, decree, deem, determine, judge; to condemn, doom, sentence; to consider, examine, reckon, think; to prove; to compute, estimate; to declare, tell; to glorify, praise”), from Proto-Germanic *d?mijan? (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to set, put”). The word is cognate with Danish dømme (“to judge”), Dutch doemen (“to condemn, foredoom”), North Frisian dema (“to judge, recognise”), Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to judge”), Norwegian Nynorsk døma (“to judge”), Swedish döma (“to judge, sentence, condemn”). It is also related to doom.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /di?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dim/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Verb

deem (third-person singular simple present deems, present participle deeming, simple past and past participle deemed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.

   Synonym: judge
2. (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree.

   Synonym: judge
3. (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).

   Synonym: judge

4. (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.

   Synonyms: consider; see also Thesaurus:deem
5. (transitive, intransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

deem (plural deems)

1. An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Mede, deme, meed

Dutch

Alternative forms

• deim

Noun

deem m (plural demen, diminutive deemke n)

1. (Brabant) dumb person

Synonyms

• sukkel

References

• [1]

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German themu, demu, from Proto-Germanic *þammai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?m/
  • Rhymes: -e?m

Determiner

deem m or n (unstressed dem)

1. dative of deen
2. dative of dat

Declension

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?de.??j/
• (Portugal, following a non-nasal sound) IPA^(key): [?ðe.??j]

Verb

deem

1. inflection of dar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Scots

Etymology

Scots form of English dame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dim/

Noun

deem (plural deems)

1. woman, dame
2. maid (especially a kitchen maid)