'Discover' definitions:
Definition of 'discover'
(from WordNet)
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" [syn: detect, observe, find, discover, notice]
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" [syn: learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see]
verb
Make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" [syn: discover, find]
verb
Make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" [syn: discover, find]
verb
Find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake" [syn: fall upon, strike, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain, discover]
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" [syn: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out]
verb
See for the first time; make a discovery; "Who discovered the North Pole?"
verb
Definition of 'Discover'
From: GCIDE
- Discover \Dis*cov"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discovered; p. pr. & vb. n. Discovering.] [OE. discoveren, discuren, descuren, OF. descovrir, descouvrir, F. d['e]couvrir; des- (L. dis-) + couvrir to cover. See Cover.]
- 1. To uncover. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church. --Abp. Grindal. [1913 Webster]
- 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] [1913 Webster]
- Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover The several caskets to this noble prince. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- We will discover ourselves unto them. --1 Sam. xiv. 8. [1913 Webster]
- Discover not a secret to another. --Prov. xxv. 9. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [WordNet sense 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] [1913 Webster]
- Some to discover islands far away. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To manifest without design; to show. [1913 Webster]
- The youth discovered a taste for sculpture. --C. J. Smith. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Discover'
From: GCIDE
- Discover \Dis*cov"er\, v. i. To discover or show one's self. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- This done, they discover. --Decker. [1913 Webster]
- Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'discover'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advertise,
- ascertain,
- bare,
- be informed,
- become acquainted with,
- beget,
- behold,
- betray,
- break the seal,
- breed,
- bring forth,
- bring into being,
- bring to light,
- broaden the mind,
- call into being,
- catch on,
- catch sight of,
- clap eyes on,
- coin,
- conceive,
- concoct,
- contrive,
- cook up,
- cram the mind,
- debunk,
- descry,
- design,
- detect,
- determine,
- develop,
- devise,
- dig up,
- discern,
- disclose,
- dismask,
- distinguish,
- divulge,
- draw the veil,
- dream up,
- encounter,
- engender,
- espy,
- evolve,
- expose,
- fabricate,
- ferret out,
- find,
- find out,
- find out about,
- frame,
- gain knowledge,
- generate,
- get,
- get hold of,
- get wise to,
- give away,
- give being to,
- give rise to,
- glimpse,
- hatch,
- have in sight,
- hear,
- hit,
- hunt down,
- identify,
- impart,
- improvise,
- innovate,
- introduce,
- introduce new blood,
- invent,
- ken,
- lay bare,
- lay eyes on,
- lay open,
- learn,
- learn about,
- let daylight in,
- let out,
- load the mind,
- locate,
- look on,
- look upon,
- make do with,
- make innovations,
- make out,
- make up,
- manifest,
- mature,
- meet with,
- mint,
- mouth,
- neologize,
- note,
- notice,
- observe,
- open,
- open up,
- originate,
- perceive,
- pick out,
- pick up information,
- pioneer,
- plan,
- proclaim,
- procreate,
- publish,
- raise the curtain,
- recognize,
- rediscover,
- reveal,
- revolutionize,
- root out,
- run down,
- run to earth,
- search out,
- see,
- show,
- show up,
- sight,
- smoke out,
- spawn,
- spill,
- spot,
- spy,
- strike,
- strike out,
- strip bare,
- take in,
- tell,
- think out,
- think up,
- trace,
- trace down,
- track down,
- tumble,
- turn up,
- twig,
- uncloak,
- uncover,
- undrape,
- undress,
- unearth,
- unfold,
- unfurl,
- unkennel,
- unmask,
- unpack,
- unroll,
- unscreen,
- unsheathe,
- unshroud,
- unveil,
- unwrap,
- view,
- witness