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Discover   /dɪskˈəvər/   Listen
Discover

verb
(past & past part. discovered; pres. part. discovering)
1.
Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.  Synonyms: detect, find, notice, observe.  "We found traces of lead in the paint"
2.
Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.  Synonyms: find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, see.  "I see that you have been promoted"
3.
Make a discovery, make a new finding.  Synonym: find.  "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
4.
Make a discovery.  Synonym: find.  "The story is false, so far as I can discover"
5.
Find unexpectedly.  Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strike.  "She struck a goldmine" , "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"
6.
Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret.  Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, unwrap.  "The actress won't reveal how old she is" , "Bring out the truth" , "He broke the news to her" , "Unwrap the evidence in the murder case"
7.
See for the first time; make a discovery.
8.
Identify as in botany or biology, for example.  Synonyms: describe, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name.



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"Discover" Quotes from Famous Books



... I was not sure, so drove up and down two or three times in front of my house, to see if I could discover any signs of Mary not being alone, and then I dismissed the cab. My prick had been standing on and off all day, I was in a fearful state of nervous erotic excitement. When I thought of her beautiful ...
— My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. - 1888 Edition • Anonymous
... and always present when least expected; they are at once everywhere and nowhere. There exists not a nook in Venice which our spies are not acquainted with, or have left unexamined, and yet has our police endeavoured in vain to discover the place ...
— The Bravo of Venice - A Romance • M. G. Lewis
... loss was Major Henderson, wounded in the shoulder and leg during the final advance. He went through the rest of the action, and returned with the party, but must now retire for a week or so to Intombi Camp, for the Roentgen rays to discover the ball in his leg. It is thought to be a buckshot, or, rather, the steel ball of a bicycle bearing, ...
— Ladysmith - The Diary of a Siege • H. W. Nevinson
... Ceaselessly forth, hemmed in by low walls for convenience of drawing. Hermann resolved that here he would halt, with his horses and carriage, Under the shade of the trees. He did so, and said to the others; "Here alight, my friends, and go your ways to discover Whether the maiden in truth be worthy the hand that I offer. That, she is so, I believe; naught new or strange will ye tell me. Had I to act for myself, I should go with speed to the village, Where a few words from the maiden's own lips should determine my fortune. Ye ...
— Hermann and Dorothea • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
... this bird carefully, Alex!" I says, "because he's the baby you're gonna pay off on! I claim you are now peerin' at the champion dub of the world. If you can make a winner outa him or discover what he has failed to develop that would make him one, I'll not only pay my end of our bet with a grin, but I'll throw in a weddin' chest of silver for ...
— Alex the Great • H. C. Witwer


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