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English Dictionary: discover	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
discover v 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" Synonym(s): detect, observe, find, discover, notice 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" Synonym(s): learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" Synonym(s): discover, find make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" Synonym(s): discover, find find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake" Synonym(s): fall upon, strike, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain, discover 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" Synonym(s): unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out see for the first time; make a discovery; "Who discovered the North Pole?" identify as in botany or biology, for example Synonym(s): identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discover \Discov"er\, v. i. To discover* or show one's self. [Obs.] This done, they discover. --Decker. Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discover \Discov"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discovered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discovering}.] [OE. discoveren, discuren, descuren, OF. descovrir, descouvrir, F. d[82]couvrir; 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.