See secern on Wiktionary
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],
[
"separated",
"separated#Adjective"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"Of a person or thing: to become separated from others."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"literary"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"en:Physiology"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century. [Experiment Solitary Touching Pilosity and Plumage.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 680, page 166:",
"text": "[…] Birds bee commonly better Meat than Beaſts, becauſe their Fleſh doth aſſimilate more finely, and ſecerneth more ſubtilly.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To secrete a substance."
],
"links": [
[
"physiology",
"physiology"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"(physiology, rare) To secrete a substance."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"literary",
"rare"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"physiology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɪˈsɜːn/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sə-/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-AcpoKrane-secern.wav",
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},
{
"ipa": "/səˈsɝn/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)n"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a person or thing: to become separated from others",
"word": "erkaantua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a person or thing: to become separated from others",
"word": "erota"
}
],
"word": "secern"
}
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