discover

[ dih-skuhv-er ]

/ dɪˈskʌv ər /

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verb (used with object)

to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America;to discover electricity.

to notice or realize: I discovered I didn't have my credit card with me when I went to pay my bill.

Archaic. to make known; reveal; disclose.

OTHER WORDS FOR discover

1 detect, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.

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Origin of discover

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English discouere(n), descuvere(n), from Anglo-French discoverir, descovrir, from Old French descovrir, descuvrir, from Late Latin discooperīre “to disclose, expose”; see origin at dis-¹, cover

synonym study for discover

1. Discover, invent, originate suggest bringing to light something previously unknown. To discover may be to find something that had previously existed but had hitherto been unknown: to discover a new electricity; it may also refer to devising a new use for something already known: to discover how to make synthetic rubber. To invent is to make or create something new, especially something ingeniously devised to perform mechanical operations: to invent a device for detecting radioactivity. To originate is to begin something new, especially new ideas, methods, etc.: to originate a political movement, the use of assembly-line techniques.

OTHER WORDS FROM discover

dis·cov·er·a·ble, adjectivedis·cov·er·a·bly, adverbnon·dis·cov·er·a·ble, adjectivepre·dis·cov·er, verb (used with object)

re·dis·cov·er, verb (used with object)un·dis·cov·er·a·ble, adjectiveun·dis·cov·ered, adjective

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How to use discover in a sentence

Pfizer and Moderna have discovered effective vaccines, but some of us will get the shot before others.
Who should get the Covid-19 vaccine first? Ethicists are fiercely debating how to vaccinate billions of people.|Sigal Samuel|November 20, 2020|Vox
Voisey has a distinctly stronger creator feel to it, and there has even been at least one singer discovered on the platform.
Snap acquired Voisey, an app to create music tracks overlaying your own vocals|Ingrid Lunden|November 20, 2020|TechCrunch
Miard and colleagues discovered ultrasound calls from colugos, reporting the finding in 2019 in Bioacoustics.
On a cool night in Malaysia, scientists track mysterious colugos across the treetops|Yao-Hua Law|November 20, 2020|Science News
In recent years, though, scientists have discovered lead, “bomb carbon” from nuclear weapons testing, chemicals banned in the 1970s, and plastic near the bottom of the ocean.
Researchers found signs of human pollution in animals living six miles beneath the sea|Kate Baggaley|November 19, 2020|Popular-Science

That’s what Reichelt and her team discovered in their studies of “teenage” mice.
Warning! Junk foods can harm a teen’s brain|Sharon Oosthoek|November 19, 2020|Science News For Students
Discoverable by clicking around or typing commands, these hidden features included entire new cartoons, or even simple gimmicks.
Homestar Runner, Trogdor the Burninator, and the Birth of the Internet|Rich Goldstein|April 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Of Field, on the other hand, traces are discoverable, and even more distinct ones of Hummel.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician|Frederick Niecks
In the part we are able to penetrate, sculpture and hieroglyphics are discoverable, as in the upper story.
The Book of Curiosities|I. Platts
He felt satisfied; he had discovered all that was discoverable, so far as Cornbridge was concerned.
The Imaginary Marriage|Henry St. John Cooper
The facts stand and are discoverable whenever we care to pay enough attention to them to ascertain their true meaning.
Our Lady Saint Mary|J. G. H. Barry
It does not therefore follow, because these primordia semina rerum are not discoverable, that therefore they may not exist.
An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. III (of 4)|William Kirby

British Dictionary definitions for discover

discover

/ (dɪˈskʌvə) /

verb (tr; may take a clause as object)

to be the first to find or find out aboutFleming discovered penicillin

to learn about or encounter for the first time; realizeshe discovered the pleasures of wine

to find after study or searchI discovered a leak in the tank

to reveal or make known

Derived forms of discover

discoverable, adjectivediscoverer, noun

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