4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discover \Dis*cov"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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
discover
v 1: 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}, {notice}]
2: make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered
X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary
particle" [syn: {find}]
3: 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}, {see}]
4: make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The
story is false, so far as I can discover" [syn: {find}]
5: 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}]
6: 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" [syn: {disclose}, {let on}, {bring out}, {reveal},
{expose}, {divulge}, {impart}, {break}, {give away}, {let
out}]
7: see for the first time; make a discovery; "Who discovered
the North Pole?"
8: identify as in botany or biology, for example [syn: {identify},
{key}, {key out}, {distinguish}, {describe}, {name}]
From eng-fra [engfra]:
discover
[diskʌvər]
découvrir, dépouiller