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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To discern as separate; discriminate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To separate.
  2. To distinguish.
  3. In physiology, to secrete.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To discriminate, distinguish
  2. v. medicine To secrete

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To separate; to distinguish.
  2. v. (Physiol.) To secrete.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. mark as different

Etymologies

  1. From Latin secerno ("to sever"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin sēcernere, to sever : sē-, apart; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + cernere, to separate; see krei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Now and again, one of them, flushed with triumph, would secern himself from his troupe, and would 'star' round the country for his livelihood.”

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  1. secrete

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  1. identify
  1. place

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  1. single out
  2. separate
  3. sex
  1. severalize
  2. know apart
  3. individualise
  1. individualize
  2. label
  3. know
  1. discriminate
  2. contrast
  3. severalise
  1. stratify
  2. decouple
  3. contradistinguish
  1. demarcate
  2. dissociate

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