verb
1. To perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend.
2. To distinguish mentally; recognize as distinct or different; discriminate.
EX. Either Prof. Oak can't discern a person's gender by their appearance, voice, and mannerisms or he is terribly polite/sensitive to crossdressers and transgendered individuals. Or he lives in a Japanese video game anime verse where such questions are necessary due to the profusion of gender ambiguous characters.
