Difference between Recognize and Discern

RECOGNIZE vs DISCERN: VERB

Exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate)
Perceive to be the same
Be fully aware or cognizant of
Grant credentials to
Accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
Express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for
Express greetings upon meeting someone
Detect with the senses
To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.
To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as worthy of consideration or valid.
To acknowledge or consider as something.
To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.
To give an award.
Show approval or appreciation of

Detect with the senses
To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate.
To perceive differences.

To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment
To exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate, for example).
To enter into a recognizance.
To admit the acquaintance of, as by salutation.
To show awareness of; approve of or appreciate.
To accept officially the national status of as a new government.
To permit to address a meeting.
To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.
To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like.
To show appreciation of.
To review; to reëxamine.
To reconnoiter.
To perceive or show acceptance of the validity or reality of.
To know to be something that has been perceived before.
To know or identify from past experience or knowledge.

To perceive with the eyes; detect or distinguish.
To recognize or understand as being distinct or different: : see.
To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.
To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize.

To indicate one's acquaintance with (a person) by a salute: as, to pass one without recognizing him.
To avow or admit a knowledge of, with approval or sanction; acknowledge or accept formally: as, to recognize one as ambassador; to recognize a government as an independent sovereignty or as a belligerent.
To know (the object) again; recall or recover the knowledge of; perceive the identity of with something formerly known or in the mind.
To cognize again.
To indicate appreciation of: as, to recognize merit.
To review; reëxamine; take cognizance of anew.
To acknowledge; admit or confess as an obligation or duty.
=Syn. 2–4. Recognize, Acknowledge. The essential difference between these words lies in the difference between letting in to one's own knowledge (recognize) and letting out to other people's knowledge (acknowledge). Hence the opposite of recognize is disown or some kindred word; that of acknowledge is conceal or deny. To recognize an obligation and to acknowledge an obligation differ precisely in this way. The preacher may be able to make a man recognize, even if he cannot make him acknowledge his need of moral improvement. See acknowledge.
In law, to enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal: as, A. B. recognized in the sum of twenty dollars. Also spelled recognise.

To distinguish; perceive the difference between(two or more things); discriminate.
To indicate or constitute the difference between; show the distinction between.
To see distinctly; separate mentally from the general mass of objects occupying the field of vision; perceive by the eye; descry.
To discover by the intellect; gain knowledge of; become aware of; distinguish.
Synonyms and To perceive, recognize, mark, note, espy, descry.
To see; penetrate by the eye.
To have judicial cognizance: with of.
To perceive a difference or distinction; make or establish a distinction; discriminate: as, to discern between truth and falsehood.

Identify, Recognition, Understand, Tell apart, Pick out, Agnize, Agnise, Make out, Greet, Accredit, Discern, Know, Distinguish, Realize, Acknowledge

Find, Disentangle, Detect, Differentiate, Identify, Define, Pinpoint, Understand, Determine, Ascertain, Tell apart, Pick out, Make out, Recognize, Distinguish

Reflect, Embrace, Emphasize, Accept, Appreciate, Identify, Recognition, Understand, Tell apart, Greet, Accredit, Discern, Know, Distinguish, Acknowledge

Trace, Assess, Find, Disentangle, Detect, Differentiate, Identify, Define, Pinpoint, Understand, Determine, Ascertain, Tell apart, Recognize, Distinguish

It is easy if you recognize the words.
Stream Saver will not recognize all video content.
Today, we recognize gender discrimination as a wrong.
Within this family, microbiologists recognize two distinct categories.
Recognize periods of timesuch as decades and centuries.
Recognize the German combined arms approach to warfare.
Will Wilson not recognize him and start shooting.
Honor societies recognize and encourage high academic scholarship.
Connecticut does not recognize degrees of negligence and, consequently, does not recognize the tort of gross negligence as a separate basis of liability.
By querying the Oracle data dictionary, applications can recognize RI constraints and therefore recognize the multidimensional data in the database.

Ability to discern subtle changes in radiographic density.
Look closely to discern a pattern or structure.
We discern no constitutional defect in the statute.
Such effects are difficult to discern and measure.
Histopathology should be considered to discern questionable lesions.
Christian to discern the divine message in history.
We can only perceive what we can discern, and what we can discern depends upon our means of perception.
When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.
Could it be the church has not only lost its ability to discern truth from error but also to discern wolves from sheep?
They also were responsible for debriefing POWs to discern relevant intelligence about MIAs and to discern the existence of war crimes committed against them.