Discover

What do we mean by discover?

To notice or learn, especially by making an effort. transitive verb

To be the first, or the first of one's group or kind, to find, learn of, or observe. transitive verb

To learn about for the first time in one's experience. transitive verb

To learn something about. transitive verb

To identify (a person) as a potentially prominent performer. transitive verb

To reveal or expose. transitive verb

. To uncover; lay open to view; disclose; make visible; hence, to show.

To exhibit; allow to be seen and known; act so as to manifest (unconsciously or unin-tentionally); betray: as, to discover a generous spirit; he discovered great confusion.

To make known by speech; tell; reveal.

To gain a sight of, especially for the first time or after a period of concealment; espy: as, land was discovered on the lee bow.

Hence To gain the first knowledgeof; find out, as something that was before entirely unknown, either to men in general, to the finder, or to persons concerned: as, Columbus discovered the new world; Newton discovered the law of gravitation; we often discover our mistakes when too late.

. To explore; bring to light by examination.

. To cause to cease to be a covering; make to be no longer a cover.

=Syn. 3.. To communicate, impart.

To descry, discern, behold.

Discover, invent, agree in signifying to find out; but we discover what already exists, though to us unknown; we invent what did not before exist: as, to discover the applicability of steam to the purposes of locomotion, and to invent, the machinery necessary to use steam for these ends. (See invention.) Some things are of so mixed a character that either word may be applied to them.

To uncover; unmask one's self.

To explore.

To discover or show one's self. intransitive verb

To find or learn something for the first time.

To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).

To expose, uncover.

To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.

To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.

To reconnoitre, explore (an area).

To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

Words that are spelled similarly to discover:
discover, discovery, dissever, disposer, discolor, discoverer, dissolver, rediscover, discloser, discovert, discoed, disponer, discovers, disrober, miscovet, disprover, discher, dig over, discuter, distomer, disolver, did over, discorder, dish cover, dissaver.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word discover:
secrets, corpse, truth, hidden, mysterious, alien, realize, secret, hiding, treasure, decide, pregnant, killer, murdered, alive, stolen, identity, strange, missing, happened, learn, true, actually, planet, find, why, dead, destroy.

Words that rhyme with discover:
cover, hover, recover, lover, plover, uncover, undercover, glover, hardcover, rediscover, cloud cover, ground cover, music lover, shover, wine lover, gover, dust cover, book lover, bed cover, manhole cover, mattress cover, record cover, lens cover, above her, le ver, love her, of her, shove her.

Adjectives that are often used to describe discover:
orchestral, invent, 805-822-4176, public.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective discover:
magazine, card, thousands, international, cards, article, the, method, activity, message, your, utility, magazines, death, answers, truth, ambitions, program, errors, image, purpose, phase, solitude.

Words that sound like discover:
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