discover
IPA: dɪskˈʌvɝ
noun
- (US) Discover Card, a brand of credit card.
- Discover magazine, a general audience science magazine launched in 1980.
verb
- To find or learn something for the first time.
- (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
- (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
- (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
- (law, transitive) To question (a person) as part of discovery in a lawsuit.
- (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
- (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
- (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.
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Examples of "discover" in Sentences
- They discovered the dubiety.
- This lode is not discovered yet.
- Uranium was discovered in the region.
- The scientist discovered the scission.
- The pathway was discovered in the 1950s.
- Gold was discovered in Cornucopia in 1884.
- He discovered the periodicity of sunspots.
- It is the mathematician who discovered pi.
- I discovered the source of the misunderstanding.
- A fragment of the stone was discovered in the field.
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