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Meaning of "secern" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SECERN

From Latin sēcernere to separate, from sē- apart + cernere to distinguish.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SECERN

secern  [sɪˈsɜːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SECERN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Secern is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb secern in English.

WHAT DOES SECERN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of secern in the English dictionary

The definition of secern in the dictionary is to secrete. Other definition of secern is to distinguish or discriminate.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SECERN

PRESENT

Present
I secern
you secern
he/she/it secerns
we secern
you secern
they secern
Present continuous
I am secerning
you are secerning
he/she/it is secerning
we are secerning
you are secerning
they are secerning
Present perfect
I have secerned
you have secerned
he/she/it has secerned
we have secerned
you have secerned
they have secerned
Present perfect continuous
I have been secerning
you have been secerning
he/she/it has been secerning
we have been secerning
you have been secerning
they have been secerning
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I secerned
you secerned
he/she/it secerned
we secerned
you secerned
they secerned
Past continuous
I was secerning
you were secerning
he/she/it was secerning
we were secerning
you were secerning
they were secerning
Past perfect
I had secerned
you had secerned
he/she/it had secerned
we had secerned
you had secerned
they had secerned
Past perfect continuous
I had been secerning
you had been secerning
he/she/it had been secerning
we had been secerning
you had been secerning
they had been secerning
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will secern
you will secern
he/she/it will secern
we will secern
you will secern
they will secern
Future continuous
I will be secerning
you will be secerning
he/she/it will be secerning
we will be secerning
you will be secerning
they will be secerning
Future perfect
I will have secerned
you will have secerned
he/she/it will have secerned
we will have secerned
you will have secerned
they will have secerned
Future perfect continuous
I will have been secerning
you will have been secerning
he/she/it will have been secerning
we will have been secerning
you will have been secerning
they will have been secerning
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would secern
you would secern
he/she/it would secern
we would secern
you would secern
they would secern
Conditional continuous
I would be secerning
you would be secerning
he/she/it would be secerning
we would be secerning
you would be secerning
they would be secerning
Conditional perfect
I would have secern
you would have secern
he/she/it would have secern
we would have secern
you would have secern
they would have secern
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been secerning
you would have been secerning
he/she/it would have been secerning
we would have been secerning
you would have been secerning
they would have been secerning
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you secern
we let´s secern
you secern
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to secern
Past participle
secerned
Present Participle
secerning
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SECERN


burn
bɜːn
CERN
sɜːn
concern
kənˈsɜːn
decern
dɪˈsɜːn
discern
dɪˈsɜːn
earn
ɜːn
externe
ˈɛkstɜːn
gerne
ɡɜːn
intern
ɪnˈtɜːn
learn
lɜːn
lucerne
luːˈsɜːn
nonconcern
ˌnɒnkənˈsɜːn
overconcern
ˌəʊvəkənˈsɜːn
return
rɪˈtɜːn
Saturn
ˈsætɜːn
scerne
sɜːn
stern
stɜːn
Sterne
stɜːn
turn
tɜːn
unconcern
ˌʌnkənˈsɜːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SECERN

secalose
SECAM
secant
secant angle
secantly
secateur
secateurs
secco
secede
seceder
secernent
secernment
secesh
secesher
secession
secessional
secessionism
secessionist
sech
seckle

WORDS THAT END LIKE SECERN

Bayern
Bern
eastern
extern
fern
going concern
govern
kern
lantern
Middle Eastern
modern
northern
northwestern
pattern
pern
southeastern
southern
southwestern
tavern
western

Synonyms and antonyms of secern in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «secern» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SECERN

Find out the translation of secern to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of secern from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «secern» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

secern
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

secern
570 millions of speakers

English

secern
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

secern
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

secern
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

secern
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

secern
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

secern
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

secern
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Selamat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

secern
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

secern
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

secern
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Liyane
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

secern
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

secern
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सेटरर्न
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

secern
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

secern
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

secern
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

secern
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

secern
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

secern
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

secern
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

secern
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

secern
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of secern

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SECERN»

The term «secern» is normally little used and occupies the 141.978 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SECERN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «secern» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «secern» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about secern

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SECERN»

Discover the use of secern in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to secern and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A New Theory of Acute and Slow Continu'd Fevers: Wherein ...
The Reason why we seem to secern more by the salivary Glands proportionally than by any or most others, arethese, 1. The salivary Glands are more in Number thanxa y of those which separate visible FK] __';,and consequently it is but ...
George Cheyne, 1722
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The Art of Appreciation
And there at the bottom of all these relatively connected meanings of “Secret”, the real “Secret” of the word “Secret” is defined to me in these two perfectly simple root words: “To secern”. Why so? Because this is the meaning of SECERN: –To ...
Peggy Halevi, Uri Halevi, 2009
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A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... ...
Withdrawing from fellowship or communion. SECERN', v. t. [L. secemo ; se and cerno, to separate.] In the animal economy, to secrete. The mucus secerned in the nose — is a laudable humor. Arbuthnot. SECERN'ED,j>/>. Separated; secreted.
Noah Webster, 1832
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The New And Complete Dictionary Of The English Language: In ...
Secern'ed {/>. from iecern) Separated as a finer from a grosser matter, separated by the glands in an animal body.. Secern'îhg ( p. a. from secern) Separating, separating the properjuicesos thr animal tody. SECESSION d.fim the Lat. secedo  ...
John Ash, 1775
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Dictionary of English Language Exhibiting Orthography, ...
H., seceding, p., a. ; seccd'ed, pp. ; seced'er (appr., a memb. of the Secession church— Scot.), s. ; Ac (v. i.) 89. Secern, se-sfirn', vt To secrete, (phys.) H.,w- cern' ing, p., a. ; secerned', pp. ; secern'ment (act or process), s. 89. [motes secretion.
Arnold James Cooley, 1861
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Memoirs: Being a New Abridgment of the Philosophical ...
... be secern'd from a thick one, when the orifices of the secretory ducts are so small, as to admit no other but that thin fluid ; and that at the fame time, the remaining parts of the blood which are thicker, continue their course in the vessel ; again, ...
Royal Society (Great Britain), Benjamin Baddam, 1739
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The History of the Works of the Learned, Or, An Impartial ...
The Volocity of the Blood at the Orifice of the separating Canal, being- as the number of Plicators in the complicated Artery ; the Viscidity of the secern'd Matter, will be as the number of Plicators in the complicated Artery. Prop. X. When the ...
‎1706
8
A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two ...
Vê Te SECERN. SECRETJST, f. a que guarda alguns fegredos ou inventos que produzem algum efteyto extraordinário. SECRETLT, adv. fecretamente, occultamente, em fegredo. SECRETNESS, f. o eftado em que fé acha alguma coufa que ...
Antonio Vieyra, 1773
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Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy
37–38; Equipe Eduplan—São Paulo, “Projecto Campanha de Alfabetização de Adultos—Rio Grande do Norte, 1963,” not paginated, all in “Programma de Ensino Primário do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte,” APE-RGN, SECERN, “1964 ” Box.
Andrew J. Kirkendall, 2010
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the ...
uab ba - k uab pure is thy soul, pure is secern - k thy sekhem? A name of Ra was P'y'® 3 *w, the "Great Sekhem," and Unas is identified with him and called : — ^-1 ^ [i^i secern ur seyem em seyemu Great sekhem, sekhem among the sekhemu ...
E. A. Wallis Budge, 2010

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SECERN»

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50 anos do Governo da Esperança: Três séculos em três anos
Para administrar os recursos recebidos, foi criado um órgão estruturado de maneira moderna e dinâmica, a Secern, cujo diretor executivo era o secretário de ... «Tribuna do Norte - Natal, Jan 11»

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