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Discover   /dɪskˈəvər/   Listen
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Discover  v. t.  (past & past part. discovered; pres. part. discovering)  
1.
To uncover. (Obs.) "Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church."
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). (Archaic) "Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover The several caskets to this noble prince." "Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue." "We will discover ourselves unto them." "Discover not a secret to another."
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."
4.
To manifest without design; to show. "The youth discovered a taste for sculpture."
5.
To explore; to examine. (Obs.)
Synonyms: 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.


Discover  v. i.  To discover or show one's self. (Obs.) "This done, they discover." "Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world."





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... 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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