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Discernable

adjective
1.
Perceptible by the senses or intellect.  Synonym: discernible.  "The newspaper reports no discernible progress in the negotiations" , "The skyline is easily discernible even at a distance of several miles"






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"Discernable" Quotes from Famous Books



... the eager haste to be rich. No higher pursuit will be recognised than the pursuit of gold—no attainment deemed so desirable as the attainment of wealth. While the great man of every circle is the rich man, in the common mind wealth becomes the synonyme of greatness. No condition is discernable superior to that which money confers; no loftier idea of manhood is entertained than that which embraces the ...
— Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing • T. S. Arthur

... Fire, but not Boyl; then take a quantity of Wheat-ears, as you think your use shall require, and cut the straw about a foot long besides the Ears, and from the Ear Lime the straw Six inches; the warmer it is, the less discernable it will be: Then to the Field adjacent, carrying a bag of Chaff, and thresh'd Ears, scatter them twenty Yards wide, and stick the lim'd Ears (declining downwards) here, and there; Then traverse the Fields, disturb their Haunts, they ...
— The School of Recreation (1684 edition) • Robert Howlett

... is discernable. Not one of our many customers, either in this city or throughout the country, has made a single complaint. This proves that there is absolutely no difference between candies made in rubber moulds and candies made in ...
— The Candy Maker's Guide - A Collection of Choice Recipes for Sugar Boiling • Fletcher Manufacturing Company

... signal of Captain Boyton's departure. It is answered by a display of fire-works from the Earnest. A gun is fired and Grisnez light flickers and goes out. Day is breaking; but Captain Boyton is not discernable yet. Over the gray waters one sees through a good glass, the white fringe of surf breaking on the sandy beach, which is lined by a black mass of people behind whom is burning a large bonfire. A speck is at length made out to ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton

... Bluff," a flighty eminence on the Blue Ridge Mountains, stands a most singular formation of rock, known as 'Washington's Face'; and which, to a casualist void of imaginative powers, is easily recognized if pointed out by a guide; but to a close observer, however, with common discernable perception, it presents at first sight a most striking and correct resemblance of the great original. From midway the bridge which crosses the Potomac, the countenance and contour of the face to me, appeared ...
— Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 • Various



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