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Definition: Secern |
SecernVerb1. Mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Secern \Se*cern"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Secerned; present participle verb or noun Secerning.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: SecernSynonyms: differentiate (v), distinguish (v), secernate (v), separate (v), severalize (v), tell (v), tell apart (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ejection | Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Secern |
| English words defined with "secern": Secerned, Secerning. (references) |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "secern": secerned, secerning, secerns. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: censer, screen. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: cense, ceres, ernes, scene, scree, sneer. | |
-2 letters: cees, cere, erne, erns, recs, rees, seen, seer, sene, sere. | |
-3 letters: cee, ens, ere, ern, ers, nee, rec, ree, res, sec, see, sen, ser. | |
-4 letters: en, er, es, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: careens, caserne, censers, censure, centers, centres, crenels, decerns, encores, fencers, neckers, necrose, recanes, scenery, screens, secerns, sincere, spencer, tenrecs. | |
+2 letters: ascender, benchers, bescreen, casernes, censored, censured, censurer, censures, centares, centners, cerumens, cesarean, cleaners, cleanser, coenures, conserve, converse, cozeners, crescent, drenches, enchaser, encloser, encoders, enforces, enriches, ensorcel, enticers, frenches, generics, increase, insecure, lecterns, licenser, lucernes, menacers, necrosed, necroses, obscener, onscreen, percents, precents, presence, reascend, reascent, rechosen, recleans, reclines, rednecks, reenacts, refences, rescreen, sarcenet, screened, screener, secerned, seconder, secretin, sickener, silencer, sincerer, sinecure, spencers, trenches, wenchers, wrenches. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 63 65 72 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -.-. . .-. -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100011 01100101 01110010 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e c e r n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0063 0065 0072 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537169718480 |
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