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What's The Definition Of Discover?
[v] get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"
[v] identify as in botany or biology, for example [v] make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" [v] make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her" [v] make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" [v] see for the first time; make a discovery; "Who discovered the North Pole?" [v] discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint" [v] find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake" Synonyms | Synonyms for Discover: attain | break | bring out | chance on | chance upon | come across | come upon | describe | detect | disclose | distinguish | divulge | expose | fall upon | find | find | find out | get a line | get wind | get word | give away | happen upon | hear | identify | impart | key | key out | learn | let on | let out | light upon | name | notice | observe | pick up | reveal | see | strike Related Terms | Find terms related to Discover: advertise | ascertain | bare | be informed | become acquainted with | beget | behold | betray | break the seal | breed | bring forth | bring into being | bring to light | broaden the mind | call into being | catch on | catch sight of | clap eyes on | coin | conceive | concoct | contrive | cook up | cram the mind | debunk | descry | design | detect | determine | develop | devise | dig up | discern | disclose | dismask | distinguish | divulge | draw the veil | dream up | encounter | engender | espy | evolve | expose | fabricate | ferret out | find | find out | find out about | frame | gain knowledge | generate | get | get hold of | get wise to | give away | give being to | give rise to | glimpse | hatch | have in sight | hear | hit | hunt down | identify | impart | improvise | innovate | introduce | introduce new blood | invent | ken | lay bare | lay eyes on | lay open | learn | learn about | let daylight in | let out | load the mind | locate | look on | look upon | make do with | make innovations | make out | make up | manifest | mature | meet with | mint | mouth | neologize | note | notice | observe | open | open up | originate | perceive | pick out | pick up information | pioneer | plan | proclaim | procreate | publish | raise the curtain | recognize | rediscover | reveal | revolutionize | root out | run down | run to earth | search out | see | show | show up | sight | smoke out | spawn | spill | spot | spy | strike | strike out | strip bare | take in | tell | think out | think up | trace | trace down | track down | tumble | turn up | twig | uncloak | uncover | undrape | undress | unearth | unfold | unfurl | unkennel | unmask | unpack | unroll | unscreen | unsheathe | unshroud | unveil | unwrap | view | witness See Also | ascertain | assort | babble | babble out | betray | bewray | blab | blab out | blackwash | blow | catch | catch out | class | classify | come out | come out of the closet | comprehend | conceive | conceptualise | conceptualize | confide | discover | ferret | ferret out | find | find | find out | gestate | get around | get out | instantiate | leak | muckrake | out | peach | perceive | rake up | rediscover | regain | see | sense | separate | sight | sing | sort | sort out | spring | talk | tattle | tell | trace | trip up | wise up Discover In Webster's Dictionary \Dis*cov"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discovered}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Discovering}.] [OE. discoveren, discuren, descuren,
OF. descovrir, descouvrir, F. d['e]couvrir; des- (L. dis-) +
couvrir to cover. See {Cover}.]
1. To uncover. [Obs.]
Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any
church. --Abp.
Grindal.
2. To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to
reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret,
unseen, or unknown).
Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover The
several caskets to this noble prince. --Shak.
Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity
doth best discover virtue. --Bacon.
We will discover ourselves unto them. --1 Sam. xiv.
8.
Discover not a secret to another. --Prov. xxv.
9.
3. To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of
a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to
find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect.
Some to discover islands far away. --Shak.
4. To manifest without design; to show.
The youth discovered a taste for sculpture. --C. J.
Smith.
5. To explore; to examine. [Obs.]
Syn: To disclose; bring out; exhibit; show; manifest; reveal;
communicate; impart; tell; espy; find; out; detect. --
To {Discover}, {Invent}. We discover what existed
before, but remained unknown; we invent by forming
combinations which are either entirely new, or which
attain their end by means unknown before. Columbus
discovered America; Newton discovered the law of
gravitation; Whitney invented the cotton gin; Galileo
invented the telescope.
\Dis*cov"er\, v. i. To discover or show one's self. [Obs.] This done, they discover. --Decker. Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world. --Milton. |
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