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dis⋅cov⋅er

  [di-skuhv-er]
Use discovered in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. 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.
2. to notice or realize: I discovered I didn't have my credit card with me when I went to pay my bill.
3. Archaic. to make known; reveal; disclose.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME < AF discoverir, descovrir, OF descovrir < LL discooperīre. See dis- 1 , cover

Related forms:
dis⋅cov⋅er⋅a⋅ble, adjective
dis⋅cov⋅er⋅a⋅bly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice. 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, esp. something ingeniously devised to perform mechanical operations: to invent a device for detecting radioactivity. To originate is to begin something new, esp. new ideas, methods, etc.: to originate a political movement, the use of assembly-line techniques. See also learn.
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dis·cov·er   (dĭ-skŭv'ər)   
tr.v.   dis·cov·ered, dis·cov·er·ing, dis·cov·ers
  1. To notice or learn, especially by making an effort: got home and discovered that the furnace wasn't working.
    1. To be the first, or the first of one's group or kind, to find, learn of, or observe.
    2. To learn about for the first time in one's experience: discovered a new restaurant on the west side.
  3. To learn something about: discovered him to be an impostor; discovered the brake to be defective.
  4. To identify (a person) as a potentially prominent performer: a movie star who was discovered in a drugstore by a producer.
  5. Archaic To reveal or expose.

[Middle English discoveren, to reveal, from Old French descovrir, from Late Latin discooperīre : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin cooperīre, to cover; see cover.]
dis·cov'er·a·ble adj., dis·cov'er·er n.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to gain knowledge or awareness of something not known before: discovered a star in a distant galaxy; ascertaining the facts; tried to determine the origins of the problem; learned the sad news from the radio.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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