discover
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.
Origin of discover
1synonym study For discover
Other words for discover
Other words from discover
- dis·cov·er·a·ble, adjective
- dis·cov·er·a·bly, adverb
- non·dis·cov·er·a·ble, adjective
- pre·dis·cov·er, verb (used with object)
- re·dis·cov·er, verb (used with object)
- un·dis·cov·er·a·ble, adjective
- un·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 | VoxVoisey 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 | TechCrunchMiard 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 NewsIn 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-ScienceThat’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 | THE DAILY BEASTOf Field, on the other hand, traces are discoverable, and even more distinct ones of Hummel.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksIn the part we are able to penetrate, sculpture and hieroglyphics are discoverable, as in the upper story.
The Book of Curiosities | I. PlattsHe felt satisfied; he had discovered all that was discoverable, so far as Cornbridge was concerned.
The Imaginary Marriage | Henry St. John CooperThe 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. BarryIt 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
/ (dɪˈskʌvə) /
to be the first to find or find out about: Fleming discovered penicillin
to learn about or encounter for the first time; realize: she discovered the pleasures of wine
to find after study or search: I discovered a leak in the tank
to reveal or make known
Derived forms of discover
- discoverable, adjective
- discoverer, noun
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