DISCOVER

learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see

(verb) 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”

identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name

(verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example

discover, find

(verb) make a discovery; “She found that he had lied to her”; “The story is false, so far as I can discover”

unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out, uncover

(verb) 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”; “unwrap the evidence in the murder case”; “The newspaper uncovered the President’s illegal dealings”

discover, find

(verb) make a discovery, make a new finding; “Roentgen discovered X-rays”; “Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle”

discover

(verb) see for the first time; make a discovery; “Who discovered the North Pole?”

detect, observe, find, discover, notice

(verb) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Proper noun

Discover

(US) Discover Card, a brand of credit card.

Anagrams

• codrives, discovre, divorces, divorcés

Etymology

Verb

discover (third-person singular simple present discovers, present participle discovering, simple past and past participle discovered)

To find or learn something for the first time.

(transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).

(transitive, now, rare) To expose, uncover.

(transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.

(transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.

(transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).

(obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

Synonyms

• (expose something previously covered): expose, reveal, uncover

• (find something for the first time): come across, find

Antonyms

• (expose something previously covered): conceal, cover, cover up, hide

Anagrams

• codrives, discovre, divorces, divorcés

Source: Wiktionary

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Dis*cov"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discovered; p. pr. & vb. n. Discovering.] Etym: [OE. discoveren, discuren, descuren, OF. descovrir, descouvrir, F. découvrir; 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.

Definition: To discover or show one's self. [Obs.] This done, they discover. Decke Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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