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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- discovre (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English discoveren, from Old French descovrir, from Late Latin discoperīre < discooperiō, discooperīre, from Latin dis- + cooperiō.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪsˈkʌvə/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /dɪsˈkʊvə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dɪsˈkʌvɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌvə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: dis‧cov‧er
Verb[edit]
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.
- Turning the corner, I discovered a lovely little shop. I discovered that they sold widgets.
- 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.
- (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
- (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
- The gust of wind discovered a bone in the sand.
- (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
- This move discovers an attack on a vital pawn.
- (law, transitive) To question (a person) as part of discovery in a lawsuit.
- 2019 July 2, Ward K. Branch, J., “Gordon v. Canada, 2017 FC 454”, in CanLII[1], retrieved 13 April 2021:
- Indeed, the plaintiffs suggest that they may not need to call Ms. Samji at all if they are allowed to discover the defendant on the new documents before any new trial takes place.
- (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
- I discovered my plans to the rest of the team.
- c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vii]:
- Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover / The several caskets to this noble prince.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Adversity
- Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
- (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
- a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:
- they seyde the same, and were aggreed that Sir Clegis, Sir Claryon, and Sir Clement the noble, that they sholde dyscover the woodys, bothe the dalys and the downys.
- (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.
- 1871', Charles John Smith}}, Synonyms Discriminated
- The youth discovered a taste for sculpture.
- 1806, Alexander Hunter, Culina Famulatrix Medicinæ, page 125:
- The English Cooks keep all their Spices in separate boxes, but the French Cooks make a spicey mixture that does not discover a predominancy of any one of the spices over the others.
- 1871', Charles John Smith}}, Synonyms Discriminated
Synonyms[edit]
- (expose something previously covered): expose, reveal, uncover
- (find something for the first time): come across, find
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Translations[edit]
expose something previously covered
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find something for the first time
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