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Meaning 1
Discover Card, a brand of credit card.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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Discover Card, a brand of credit card.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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name
Discover magazine, a general audience science magazine launched in 1980.
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verb
To find or learn something for the first time.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To expose, uncover.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: board-games, chess, games
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verb
To question (a person) as part of discovery in a lawsuit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: law
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verb
To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, see
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Narrower terms: get the goods, wise up, trip up, catch, ascertain, discover, find
verb
identify as in botany or biology, for example
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: identify, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name
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verb
make a discovery
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: find
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Broader terms: learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see
Narrower terms: rake up, ferret out, ferret
verb
make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tell
Narrower terms: blackwash, muckrake, blow, out, come out of the closet, come out, spring, betray, bewray, confide, leak, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out, reveal
verb
make a discovery, make a new finding
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: find
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Broader terms: gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
verb
see for the first time; make a discovery
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Narrower terms: rediscover
verb
discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: detect, observe, find, notice
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Broader terms: spy, sight
Narrower terms: find out, catch out, sense, instantiate, trace, see
verb
find unexpectedly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fall upon, strike, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain
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Broader terms: find, regain
History
Trade name, from discover; introduced by Sears in 1985.
From Middle English discoveren, from Old French descovrir, from Late Latin discoperīre < discooperiō, discooperīre, from Latin dis- + cooperiō. Displaced native Old English onfindan.
Across languages
256 source translations are retained for this English entry.