What does secern mean?
Definitions for secern
sɪˈsɜrnse·cern
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Princeton's WordNet
distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apartverb
mark as different
"We distinguish several kinds of maple"
Wiktionary
secernverb
To discriminate, distinguish
secernverb
To secrete
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Secernverb
To separate finer from grosser matter; to make the separation of substances in the body.
Etymology: secerno, Latin.
Birds are commonly better meat than beasts, because their flesh doth assimilate more finely, and secerneth more subtilly. Francis Bacon, Natural History.
The pituite or mucus secerned in the nose and windpipe, is not an excrementitious but a laudable humour, necessary for defending those parts, from which it is secerned, from excoriations. Arbuthnot.
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secern
Secern is a verb that means to separate or distinguish from something else. It can also refer to the act of secluding or dividing, especially in a biological context, such as the secretion of enzymes or hormones.
Webster Dictionary
Secernverb
to separate; to distinguish
Secernverb
to secrete; as, mucus secerned in the nose
Etymology: [L. secernere. See Secrete.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Secern
sē-sern′, v.i. and v.t. to separate: to distinguish: to secrete.—adj. Secer′nent.—n. Secern′ment. [L. secernĕre, secretum, to separate.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of secern in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of secern in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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