What's the difference between cute and discerning?

Cute


Definition:

  • (a.) Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "In a sea of bubblegum-cute popsters, Sistar stand out for their cool and sexy image," says Scobie.
  • (2) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
  • (3) You can use absolutely anything - an unwanted T-shirt, some old curtains, something you picked up in a charity shop ... Garish 70s-style prints you probably wouldn't dream of wearing work surprisingly well in soft toys: they are cute, they can pull it off.
  • (4) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
  • (5) When he smiles, he looks as cute and gummy as a newborn.
  • (6) And we didn’t want a bloody female one – at least the last guy was cute.
  • (7) You're so cute, look at you in your little jumper!"
  • (8) Our compilation of near misses on the road may be a little hair-raising but, as a bonus, we offer a lucky cyclist who is hit by a car but lands on a mattress There is no shortage of cute pets this week, with a cat who is into escapology and a dog who loves rolling on the bed when he thinks his owner isn't around .
  • (9) Does appreciation for cuteness come naturally, or does it reveal something about our society?
  • (10) Another great feature of the panda, at least as far as Chairman Mao Zedong and his followers were concerned, was that the rest of the world, particularly the west, had become obsessed by its excruciatingly cute looks and behaviour.
  • (11) Laurinda runs Casa do Norte (from £30 a night) – a cute, romantic cottage to kick back in – and manages a handful of other turismos rurales.
  • (12) Lorenz’s paper is the blueprint of cute studies, but it did not produce a positive reaction among the scientific community.
  • (13) Despite their cute appearance, the animals have been known to bite the fingers off of tourists who have gone into the cages .
  • (14) This is Iron Man as Conan: he may be a genius on Earth but when he meets advanced alien civilisations, they just see him as a cute little barbarian."
  • (15) Snap – they're my photos 8 Extreme Mountain Unicycling This is wheely dangerous, said a spokesman … 9 How to win Chess in 4 moves Pawn movie 10 Dog Jumps Over A River Cute – you'll want to stream this video Source: Viral Video Chart .
  • (16) The beach is half a block a way, and you even get a cute, hand-drawn map to guide you around the sand-street town.
  • (17) People genuinely like them because they're funny, interesting, cute or just generally interesting.
  • (18) We're in a time where it is cute to be provocative and alternative and distinct.
  • (19) But it's obvious from the start that there are no deferential nods to Egyptian, classical, modernist or postmodernist modes, no reassuring "quotes" like the over-cute pilasters that adorn the extension to London's National Gallery by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
  • (20) For Kaori Kitakata, a devotee since she was introduced to the genre by Korean friends, K-pop is a change from the overtly cute mien cultivated by popular Japanese girlbands such as Morning Musume .

Discerning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discern
  • (a.) Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, no evidence could be discerned to support its validity as a measure of a patient's treatment outcome.
  • (2) Of 55 new open reading frames analysed by gene disruption, three are essential genes; of 42 non-essential genes that were tested, 14 show some discernible effect on phenotype and the remaining 28 have no overt function.
  • (3) This was apparent by standard flux techniques only in low (65 mM) Na solutions, but was readily discernible in normal Na (125 mM) with the "lanthanum-residual" technique.
  • (4) By this method two types of granules have been discerned according to their different contrasts.
  • (5) Several stages in its histogenesis may be discerned: I. focal necroses of hepatic cells associated with their invasion with lister Listeria; 2. appearance of cellular elements around the foci of necroses with subsequent formation of granulemas consisting mainly of leucocytes and lymphoid cells; 3. development of necrobiotic changes in the central areas of granulemas with concomitance of exudative processes; 4. organization of necrotic foci with subsequent scarring.
  • (6) Significant increment in lipid peroxidation was discernible in brain, liver and muscle.
  • (7) While there's no discernible forró influence in the dreamy 80s indie-guitar music of Fortaleza's Cidadão Instigado, they do take influence from popular local style brega, a 1970s and 80s Brazilian romantic pop music.
  • (8) Furthermore, individual AgNOR dots were much more readily discerned in cell imprints than in sections, and this appears to be the method of choice if pathologists wish to at least approach absolute rather than relative AgNOR counts.
  • (9) In order to assess the sensitivity of these techniques, and to discern minimal criteria for their conduct, a survey of 113 human lymphocyte cytogenetic surveillance studies conducted between 1965 and 1984 has been undertaken.
  • (10) Changes in the secretory process were discernible as of day 1 in all three tumors, with a dramatic reduction of exocytosis and intracellular accumulation of PRL-immunoreactive granules.
  • (11) The advent of cyclosporine A provides the dermatologist with a new therapeutic strategem in the management of psoriasis, although the long-term safety of such interventional therapy remains to be discerned.
  • (12) Histologically, no discernible changes in the hair cells or sensory hairs were found with a scanning electron microscope at about 6 hours after 10 krad irradiation, while with a transmission electron microscope, the outer hair cells in the basal coil of the cochlea were found to be mostly destroyed.
  • (13) However, by phase microscopy, no changes are discernible within the first 12-18 h. Since the primary NGF receptor appears to be a membrane receptor, it seemed likely that some of the initial responses to the factor may be surface related.
  • (14) Whereas no discernible differences on survival were documented on a long-term basis, when patient who ultimately recurred in each group were compared, a substantial and statistically significant prolongation of the free-of-disease interval from surgery to recurrence and of survival from recurrence to death are revealed.
  • (15) The results suggest that TGF-beta 1 has powerful anti-inflammatory effects, mimicking in some respects the beneficial effects of immunosuppressive drugs in these experimental models of autoimmune disease, but without discernable adverse effects.
  • (16) Temporal differences in the expression of sugar-binding proteins and different patterns of staining of the component cell types of human placenta were discerned, especially pronounced for alpha-fucoside-specific binding in the trophoblast and alpha-glucoside-specific binding in fetal and maternal macrophages.
  • (17) They’re all basically the same, but the tiny, barely discernible differences between them consume vast amounts of energy and generate heartache for everyone involved.
  • (18) Judged radiographically, partial obliteration (pulp chamber not discernible, root canal markedly narrowed but clearly visible) had occurred in 44 teeth (36%).
  • (19) Starch ingestion had no discernible effect on postprandial lipemia.
  • (20) We conclude that long-term prophylaxis with TMP-SMZ does not produce discernable hematologic, renal, or hepatic toxicity in renal transplant recipients nor does it augment nephrotoxicity with cyclosporine or increase the risk of rejection.