discoveryn.
/dᵻˈskʌv(ə)ri/, U.S. /dᵻˈskəv(ə)ri/ 1. † b. Exploration, reconnaissance; an instance of this. See also Compounds 1. Obsolete.
a.
(a) The action of finding out or becoming aware of something for the first time; the action of being the first to find (a place); the action of bringing to light something (as a substance, scientific phenomenon, etc.) which was previously unknown.Quot. a1527 may instead show sense 1b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > [noun]
contrivingc1330
discoverya1527
inventiona1538
out-finding1554
boulting out1563
reperition1610
elicitation1655
ascertainment1821
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > [noun]
inventiona1350
discoverya1527
discovering1555
reperition1610
detection1623
a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. D2v I reason, that as some sicknesses are hereditarious,..so this inclination or desire of this discouerie I inherited of my father.
?a1554 H. Willoughby in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 265 The voyage intended for the discouerie of Cathay, and diuers other regions, dominions, Islands, and places vnknowen.
1590 J. Hester tr. J. Du Chesne Sclopotarie sig. A3v Others..bestow their whole endeuour in the discouery of such medicines, as to themselues..might any way seeme fittest.
1603 G. de Malynes Englands View 27 The treasure in Europe being generally increased since the discouerie of the West Indies.
1653 in J. S. Corbett Fighting Instr. (1905) 99 Upon the discovery of a fleet, receiving a sign from the general,..two frigates..are to make sail.
1711 W. Nicolson Diary 13 Feb. in London Diaries (1985) 546 Thence to the Archbishop who well pleased (tho' confined to his Bed) with the Discovery of Chalk stones in his sore Toe.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson (ed. 2) ii. x. 321 The discovery of [1748 (ed. 1) searching after] new countries and of new branches of commerce.
1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. ii. ii. 71 Morality..does not admit of discovery, properly so called.
1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xlviii. 590 The discovery that Mercury and Venus revolve round the sun.
1843 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 338 Shew me..a discoverer who has not suffered for his discovery..whether a Columbus or a Galileo.
1894 Whitaker's Almanack 594/2 Ferrier's discovery of cerebral localization.
1929 H. W. Haggard Devils, Drugs, & Doctors iii. 53 The credit for the discovery of the obstetrical forceps is not always given to the Chamberlens.
1970 Jrnl. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 81 15 The new comet..was of the 7th magnitude at the time of discovery.
1999 Chem. in Brit. Mar. 66/1 A reference book aimed at medicinal and pharmaceutical chemists engaged in drug discovery and development.
2007 New Scientist 8 Dec. 30/4 The software's potential to speed up discovery of imprinted genes.
(b) As a count noun: an instance of this.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > [noun] > an act or instance of finding
discovery?a1560
find1803
the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > invention, devising > [noun] > an invention, device
findalOE
device1529
invention1546
invent?1567
discovery1676
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) Pref. sig. A.ijv For a gentleman..that professe[t]h the warres, aswell for discoueries made by sea, as fortification, placing of Campes, & conducting of Armies on the lande, how necessarie it is to [etc.].
1578 T. Churchyard Prayse Master Forboishers Voy. sig. C.iii Columbo made a discouerie of the Indians, by a voyage he tooke in hande.
?1609 J. Healey tr. Bp. J. Hall Discouery New World iii. iii. 134 The Portugales may brag of their trauels and discoueries.
1676 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 126 Those discoveries and new inventions are not granted even to such men..unless [etc.].
1756 T. Nugent tr. E. B. de Condillac Ess. Origin Human Knowl. i. vii. 72 This analysis is the true secret for discoveries, because it makes us ascend to the original of things.
1800 Philos. Mag. 7 304 My first researches and discoveries on the subject of galvanism.
1885 Outing & Wheelman Feb. 370 ‘You fellows look a little petered,’ he said, with the air of one who has made a discovery.
1900 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 20 172 Of Dr. Halbherr's discoveries at Phaestos no particulars are yet to hand, except that he is excavating a large citadel.
1968 Times 28 Aug. 21/6 The South of England Electricity Board has had to take its newest..power station..out of commission because of a discovery..of hair-line cracks in welding.
2003 S. Greenfield Tomorrow's People (2004) i. 2 The public have been aware, ever since Hiroshima, of the need to try to understand the implications of new scientific discoveries.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > [noun] > reconnaissance
scouringc1471
scry1523
discovery?1574
reconnaissance1779
reconnoitre1781
reconnoissance1802
outwatch1852
exploitation1871
recco1917
recon1918
photoreconnaissance1920
recce1941
photo-recce1946
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > searching a place or country for discovery
discovery?1574
exploring1577
exploration1616
surveying1632
explorement1646
?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea vi. sig. H If it be true that the compasse doth varie by that proportion, then it were very good for them to practise that matter that shoulde make any discouery vnto the Northwardes.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxii. 57 The enemies in vew..Hard is the quesse of their great strength and forces By diligent discouery.
1669 N. Morton New-Englands Mem. 17 About thirty of them went out on this second Discovery..but upon the more exact discovery thereof, they found it to be no Harbour for Ships, but onely for Boats.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 115 I had a great Desire to make a more perfect Discovery of the Island.
1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. II. iii. 275 He was therefore commanded to make some further discoveries.
1893 B. J. Lossing Harpers' Pop. Cycl. I. 482/1 Sufficient seamen to stay and make a further discovery of the country.
c. The action or fact of detecting a person, esp. one seeking to remain concealed or disguised, or one engaged in criminal or illicit activity; the action or fact of bringing such activity to light.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > [noun] > detection > detection of a person
deprehension1527
espial?a1562
discovery1592
detecting1604
deprension1654
1592 R. Cosin Conspiracie for Pretended Reformation 77 His directing of Hacket, neither to subscribe nor endorse (but in that sorte as he prescribed) for feare of discouerie.
1608 T. Dekker Belman of London (new ed.) sig. Cv They holde these solemne meetings..in seuerall places to auoyde discouerie.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xx. 71 Attired after the Chinese fashion, for fear of discovery.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 9. ⁋3 Miss having heard enough, sneaks off for Fear of Discovery.
1793 European Mag. Mar. 230/2 He assumes.., to avoid discovery, the habit of Casper.
1864 M. E. Braddon Henry Dunbar II. xi. 212 The audacity to offer a measly hundred pounds or so for the discovery of a great crime!
1920 Munsey's Mag. June 125/2 We were almost beneath this man, and I held my breath for fear of discovery.
1990 M. Booth Triads i. 6 Like other similar societies it changed its name from time to time to avoid discovery or infiltration.
2003 C. Mendelson Daughters of Jerusalem 304 It is my, my duty, my obligation, as Senior Dean, on discovery of a crime within the college..to do two things.
d. U.S. Mining. The finding of a mineral deposit within a particular area, esp. on the first occasion when this occurs; the location of the mineral deposit found. See also Compounds 2, discovery claim n. at Compounds 4. Now rare and historical.
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1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana ii. vii. 147 What is called a discovery, by those engaged in working the mines, is, when any one happens upon an extensive body of ore.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 127 Discovery,..the first finding of the mineral deposit in place upon a mining claim. A discovery is necessary before the location can be held by a valid title. The opening in which it is made is called discovery-shaft, discovery-tunnel, etc.
1897 M. H. E. Hayne Pioneers of Klondyke 143 When we reached the Bonanza [creek], we found all claims below ‘discovery’ already staked out.
1922 B. D. Stewart Ann. Rep. to Governor of Alaska 116 There were 12 individuals or partnerships engaged in placer mining in the Kantishna district. They were:..Weisel and Ferraris at claim 10 above, and Peter Nelson at claim 13 above discovery on Eureka Creek; [etc.].
1981 W. Parker Deadwood i. 16 Williams's claim, Number Two below discovery, in three months [in 1876] yielded twenty-seven thousand dollars worth of placer gold. Williams then sold his claim and bought Number Fourteen above discovery.
2.
a. Chess. The action or fact of discovering a check or other attack (see discover v. 4b).
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1562 tr. Damiano da Odemira Pleasaunt Playe of Cheasts sig. Cv Thou shalte playe thy queenes Paune one steppe geuing him checke by discouery [Fr. luy donnant eschec au descouuert; It. di scacho in discoperta] of thy queenes Bishoppe.
1614 A. Saul Famous Game Chesse-play viii. sig. C3 A Mate by discouery, the most worthiest of all.
1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester v. 71 The neatest and most prejudicial trick you can put upon your adversary at Chess is a Check by discovery.
1761 E. Hoyle Ess. Game of Chess A4 Take care of a Fork or a Check by Discovery, or a Stale mat.
1841 G. Walker New Treat. Chess (ed. 3) 110 He should, perhaps, rather move Q. to K. Kt. fourth, notwithstanding the discovery of check upon her majesty.
1847 C. H. Stanley Amer. Chess Mag. 160 Threatening to win Queen by discovery of a masked attack.
1900 Morning Post 9 July 6/4 K—Q 7 has but one defence, K—B 4; the mate by discovery is excellent.
1910 Encycl. Brit. VI. 94/2 ‘Check by discovery’ is given when a player, by moving one of his pieces, checks with another of them.
1998 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 26 Mar. g9/1 The program then explains..the basic tactics of chess: forks, pins, skewers, removing the guard, discovery, double check and checkmate.
b. gen. The action of exposing or revealing something hidden or previously unseen or unknown; disclosure, revelation; exposition. Now rare.
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society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun]
discoveringa1375
nakeninga1382
bewrayingc1386
detection1471
discoverture?1473
revelationc1485
disclosinga1513
disclosurea1525
disclose1548
overture1548
patefaction1553
displaying1556
discovery1567
unripping1568
revealment1576
discoverment1578
retection1581
unmaskinga1586
unclasping?1592
denudation1593
untrussing1597
uncovering1598
detecting1604
divulging1604
divulgation1610
unvizardinga1628
exposinga1631
divulgement1632
unbowellinga1639
unfolding1646
revealinga1649
unrolling1648
pre-discovery1653
discoverance1664
unshelling1670
development1760
unveilinga1774
disclosal1786
displayment1801
divulgence1851
revelationism1854
unbosoming1910
uncovery1963
1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. vi. xxiii. 753 As wel for the discouerie of so greate vntruthe, as also for the better satisfaction of the Reader, I haue thought it good..to touche, [etc.].
1574 R. C. Blasinge of Bawdrie sig. A.vi (heading) The discouery or blasing of the common practises of beastly Bawdes.
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. P4v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) In the discouerie whereof, my minde is..to deliuer what in mine owne opinion, I haue coniectured.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 219 How significant is their discouerie of the beast vnto the hunter.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 285 Certain Dutch Merchants, cloath'd in Persian habits..they made no discovery of themselves.
1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iii. i. 24 Come, make a free discovery which of 'em your Poetry is to Charm.
1737 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) IV. 276 Resolved..to make a Discovery of the whole affair.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. ii. xxxi. 482 The bankrupt, upon this examination, is bound..to make a full discovery of all his estate and effects.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 25 She would then meet him, determined to make a full discovery of her sentiments.
1871 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Jan. 182/1 He must make a full discovery of the ruby mine or die a death of torture.
1902 A. Whyte Bible Char. xviii. 176 His discovery to me of the state of my own heart only the more entitles me..to take my heart to Him.
1995 R. Smith Handel's Oratorios iv. 116 Admiration for the scriptural account of Joseph's discovery of himself to his brothers was even voiced by Pope.
c. Law. Disclosure of relevant facts or documents by a party to an action, typically as compelled by another party.
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1591 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. ii. xv. 146 The iudge..may exact such necessarie oathes of the other partie, importing oftentimes discoverie of matters criminall and penall to himself.
1680 R. L'Estrange Compend. Hist. 68 Within two days after, he made a full discovery upon Oath, impeaching Fits-Girald, Kelly, Hill, Berry and Green.
1715 Act 2 Geo. I in London Gaz. (1716) No. 5455/2 The Person suing..shall be entitled..to demand a Discovery of all Incumbrances..any way affecting the same.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iii. xxvii. 437 From the..compulsive discovery upon oath, the courts of equity have acquired a jurisdiction over almost all matters of fraud.
1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon (at cited word) A bill of discovery, emphatically so called, is a bill for the discovery of facts resting in the knowledge of the defendant, or of deeds, or writings, or other things, in his custody or power.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. ii. iv. 405 In the superior courts of common law..either party to a cause has a right..to obtain discovery of documents in his opponent's possession relating to the matter in dispute.
1883 Law Times 20 Oct. 411/1 I obtained discovery, and the result was that an authority, signed by the defendant,..was disclosed.
1984 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 9 Feb. Such tactics may permit a target to litigate issues (and obtain discovery) that it would not be able to raise in a federal court.
2000 Harvard Law Rev. 113 1867 To protect from discovery documents related to settlement negotiations.
d. The denouement of a drama, novel, etc.; (also) a revelation or disclosure which brings this about. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot > unfolding or course of
shape1357
discovery1668
movement1838
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot > dénouement
untying1598
unravelling1606
discovery1668
unravelment1705
dénouement1752
resolution1846
pay-off1947
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 16 The Catastrophe, which..the French [call] le denouement, and we the discovery or unravelling of the Plot.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Discovery, in Dramatic Poetry, a Manner of Unravelling a Plot, or Fable..; wherein, by some unforeseen Accident, a Discovery is made of the Name, Fortune, Quality, and other Circumstances of a principal Person, before unknown.
1810 M. R. Mitford Let. 20 Sept. in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. iv. 108 The dénouement of ‘Marmion’ and that of ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ both turn on the same discovery.
1903 C. M. Gayley Representative Eng. Comedies I. Pref. p. lxxx The discovery and dénouement are naturally contrived.
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society > communication > manifestation > [noun]
uppingc950
showingOE
propositiona1382
evidencec1384
musterc1400
manifestation?a1425
demonstrationc1450
ostension1474
demonstrance1509
ostentationa1513
forthsetting1528
apparition1533
manifesting1536
outshow1547
objection1554
displaying1556
proclamation1567
discovery1576
remonstrance1583
appearance1587
explicature1592
ostent1600
object1609
showing forth1615
innotescencea1631
presentment1637
deplication1648
display1661
exertion1668
extraversion1675
exhibitiona1677
exertment1696
show-off1776
unfoldment1850
outcrop1854
outplay1859
eclosion1889
1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 57 That they..should not only in the discoverie of their skill make him glorious, but themselves also.
1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 42 It was then the Romans..made a discovery of their first Magnificence.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. xvi. 108 His companions..could make no discovery of their ignorance or surprise.
1865 A. B. Cochrane Historic Pictures I. 182 His eloquent appeal had led to a great reaction in his favour;..he had made so full a discovery of his great merit and abilities.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > catching sight of
discovery1587
espial1588
espiery1845
sighting1853
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > view or scenery
regardc1500
prospect1573
discovery1587
prospective1599
view1606
perspective1612
landscape?a1645
vista1657
coup d'œil1739
scape1773
survey1821
outlook1828
eyeshot1860
outscape1868
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 170/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II He drew so neere to the fort as he had the whole discouerie and sight of the fort and companie therein.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vii. xi. 592 In the first place presents it selfe to our Discoverie that Sea.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xix. 668 The hills which are commonly called the viewes or discoueries of parkes.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine v. ii. 145 He could not at that distance have taken a discovery of them.
1728 R. Erskine Saving Sight 21 The Soul may be brought to the Suburbs of Glory, and get such a Discovery of Christ, that he would be content the Valley of Vision were his Burial-place.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun]
discoveringa1375
stripping1398
unheling1398
uncovering1495
discovery1610
1610 J. Selden Duello xi. 42 Vppon his answer, and discouery of his face by remouing the visor of his head-peece, hee is admitted.
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 134 Seeds themselves in their rudimentall discoveries, appear in foliaceous surcles.
1771 Town & Country Mag. July 372/1 She also made a full discovery of her face, by the removal of her handkerchief.
1823 W. S. Rose tr. F. Berni Orlando Innamorato 269 Rogero..entreats her to take off her helmet; and, at the discovery of her face, remains transported with pleasure.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [noun] > evidence given, testimony
witnessc950
proof?c1225
witnessingc1330
evidencea1387
probacyc1460
probation?a1475
testimonial?a1475
testimony?a1475
testimonage1483
testamentc1485
conjecture1526
fact?1531
trial1532
teste1567
suffragy1571
attest1609
probate1610
testa1616
testate1619
discovery1622
constat1623
1622 J. Brinsley True Watch: Third Pt. ix. 111 How is it that they are not afraid to shew this openly..; and that after so many and so late and strange discoveries of their barbarous cruelties and Machivillian plots.
1648 O. Cromwell Let. 17 June in Writings & Speeches (1937) (modernized text) I. 615 We have plain discoveries that Sir Trevor Williams,..was very deep in the plot of betraying Chepstow.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 356 By this we may have some Discovery of Nossis's Age.
1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 273 Marks which were thought sufficient Discoveries of their being dictated by the same Spirit.
1793 Acct. Trial T. Muir for Sedition 55 If these papers..had afforded any weighty discoveries of my guilt, the Indictment should have so stated.
7. † b. In plural. Assets which have been disclosed. Obsolete.
a. Something which is discovered, revealed, or brought to light; a substance, phenomenon, etc., found for the first time.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > [noun] > a discovery
findingc1390
invention1613
discovery1632
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > [noun] > a find or discovery
findingc1390
discovery1632
find1827
1632 S. Marmion Hollands Leaguer v. v. sig. L4 I'll open but one leaf in all the booke, And you shall see the whole discouery.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 210 The Friers..brought back into Europe the discovery of Silk and Silk Worms.
1770 G. von Engeström & E. M. da Costa tr. A. F. Cronstedt Ess. Syst. Mineral. clxxix. 178 This metal is a recent discovery of our times.
1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 752 Then spread the rich discovery, and invite Mankind to share in the divine delight.
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 419/2 No indication that the mariner's compass was a recent discovery.
1894 Lancet 3 Nov. 1044 Serum therapy..is a discovery belonging to M. Behring.
1934 L. Charteris Boodle v. 115 The print was a discovery... ‘A fairly good specimen of a rather common plate,’ he said carelessly.
1951 Billboard 31 Mar. 68/1 (advt.) Fabulite is the rutilite discovery you read about in Time Magazine.
1989 S. J. Gould Wonderful Life (1991) 154 Simon chose a most unusual and truly lovely designation for his strangest discovery.
2004 Nature 26 Aug. 976/2 These molecules are fairly recent discoveries.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > action of placing to one's credit > sum placed to one's credit > assets
discoveries1648
assets1721
resources1825
net asset1863
wasting asset1930
1648 in Jrnls. House of Commons (1803) VI. 89/2 An Ordinance for some of the reduced Officers, for Advance Monies upon their Discoveries to be made.
1657 in Jrnls. House of Commons (1803) VII. 529/2 A Bill for settling of Worcester House..upon Margarett Countess of Worcester..and some Discoveries, in lieu of the Arrears of her Fifths.
1662 in Jrnls. House of Commons (1803) VIII. 345/2 As to Arrears and Discoveries of Monies received upon the Accompt.
c. A person whose talents or admirable qualities are recognized and made known for the first time. Cf. discover v. 6e.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > [noun] > a find or discovery > a person
find1850
discovery1876
1876 M. Oliphant Phœbe, Junior I. xiv. 284 He is not such a stranger after all... He knows some one. He will not be quite a discovery.
1930 Daily Tel. 1 Dec. 21/1 McRosty..was last year's ‘discovery’, obtaining his Blue at the first time of asking.
1986 Guardian 1 Feb. 13/8 Juliette Binoche was the discovery of the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
2011 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 21 Feb. 24 For a new model on the Manhattan block, Adelaide discovery MJ..is taking pretty impressive baby steps.
8. With capital initial. A variety of early-fruiting dessert apple, having a yellow skin flushed with crimson and flesh with a pinkish tinge.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
pippin?1435
pomewater?1435
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
sweeting1530
pomeroyal1534
renneta1568
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
russeting1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
reinette1582
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pomeroy1600
short-start1600
jenneting1601
pome-paradise1601
russet coat1602
John apple1604
honey apple1611
honeymeal1611
musk apple1611
short-shank1611
spice apple1611
French pippin1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
renneting1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
reinetting1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
white-wining1676
russet1686
calville1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
musk1708
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
wine apple1802
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
wine-sap1826
Jonathan1831
Sturmer Pippin1831
rusty-coat1843
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Cornish gilliflowerc1850
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
nutmeg pippin1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Melba apple1928
Melba1933
Mutsu1951
Newtown1953
discovery1964
1964 New Scientist 1 Oct. 29/3 Discovery, a new and brilliantly coloured desert [sic] apple which fruits in mid-August..was grown from a pip on an Essex farm.
1982 Times 15 Feb. 5/3 Long Ashton [Research Station] was..working to produce ‘more precocious’ strains of the Discovery apple.
2010 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Oct. (Weekend Suppl.) 90 While Discovery and Katy are tasty, the glut was unmanageable.
Compounds
C1. attributive. Designating a ship designed or intended to be used for exploration or reconnaissance. Now chiefly historical.
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1788 World 13 Oct. In 1785 the French King's Ships l'Astrolabe and Boussale [recte Boussole], were fitted out on discovery under the command of M. Peyrouse and De Langle.]
1804 Hull Packet 21 Feb. (heading) The discovery ships.
1816 Morning Post 7 Feb. A young Jew, lately a sailor on board a discovery vessel.
1824 Morning Chron. 28 July His Majesty's Discovery Sloop Griper.
1829 C. H. Barnard Narr. Sufferings & Adventures (1836) ii. 18 We hailed the discovery boat to come along side.
1851 Aberdeen Jrnl. 12 Nov. 1/2 (advt.) Sir John Ross's discovery schooner ‘Felix’, lately returned from the Arctic Seas.
1878 G. S. Nares Narr. Voy. Polar Sea I. i. 2 No one on board our two ships can ever forget the farewell given to the discovery vessels on that occasion.
1912 C. E. Bradt et al. Around World x. 189 Only one of the five discovery ships, and eighteen men..finally reached the harbor of their home-land of Spain.
2009 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 6 Aug. a14 HMS Investigator, an important discovery vessel from the great age of Arctic exploration.
C2. attributive. Originally U.S. Mining. Originally: designating the area or location where a discovery claim (see Compounds 4) is made (now historical). Later also in extended use: designating the well, borehole, etc., where oil is first found in a newly explored area.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > oil rig > [noun] > well
well1652
spouting well1776
petroleum well1801
rock well1830
oil well1859
spouter1865
gusher1876
test well1877
wild cat1877
wildcat well1883
roarera1885
oiler1890
discovery1900
edge well1904
wild well1915
offset well1922
stripper1930
offset1933
production well1934
outstep1947
step-out well1948
1866 Gen. Laws 5th Sess. Legislative Assembly Colorado 72 Each and every person..shall..be entitled to take..fourteen hundred (1400) feet..of such lode or vein, of which the discovery shaft shall be the center thereof.
1873 Ann. Rep. Commissioner General Land Office to Secretary of Interior (U.S.) 173 (table) Discovery location on the Tiger Lode mining claim.
1898 J. M. Price From Euston to Klondike 203 ‘Discovery claims’ are not allowed..on the tributary streams of the parent discovery creek.
1900 W. L. Watts Oil & Gas Yielding Formations Calif. iii. 114 There was a great rush to locate oil-claims, and every available piece of land adjacent to the discovery well was rapidly taken up.
1948 Time 19 Jan. 87/2 The discovery well was pouring out 55 barrels a day, the maximum under Texas regulations.
1984 Oil & Gas Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Oct. 108 After wireline logging and testing of the discovery borehole, the development and reservoir engineers plan for the orderly development and exploitation of the newly discovered reservoir.
2009 Independent 17 Feb. 30/1 I went offshore to test what turned out to be the discovery well for the Foinaven field west of Shetland.
2011 D. L. Hardesty in C. H. Spude et al. Eldorado! ii. 28 The discovery of the extensive bonanzas along the initial discovery creeks..opened up another microenvironment.
C3. attributive. Education (originally U.S.). With reference to a method of instruction in which students are encouraged to acquire knowledge actively by their own investigations, rather than passively by listening and reading; cf. heuristic adj. 2. Esp. in discovery learning, discovery method.
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1894 F. Durell New Life in Educ. ii. 49 Where, as in certain methods of studying geometry, the student works out all for himself, it is called the heuristic or self-discovery method.]
1896 F. H. Bailey Inductive Elem. Sci. (ed. 2) p. xxv The method is a discovery method in more than one sense; not only does the pupil ‘discover’ the principles of physical science, but the teacher discovers his pupils.
1936 Math. Gaz. 20 101 The first stage could be arrived at..by the ‘discovery’ method: asking the boy to discover for himself.
1959 High School Jrnl. 42 265 In ‘creative or discovery learning’ the student is stimulated to analyze the situation and to create his own generalizations instead of being told everything.
1962 Listener 5 Apr. 593/2 Today, it is the ‘discovery’ techniques which are making spectacular progress.
1995 Wired Mar. 32/2 The public-school establishment..has spent the last 40 years perusing various versions of open classrooms, discovery learning, and child-centered education.
2000 Jrnl. Hist. Res. in Music Educ. 21 137 Children learned by the discovery method, were encouraged to compose from the earliest stages, and were introduced to notation only to preserve their songs.
2007 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. Educ. 28 589 The figure of the ‘independent learner’ appears initially in educational discourse in the discovery methods of the child-centred movement of the 1960s.
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discovery claim n. U.S. Mining (now historical) the claim made by the discoverer of a mineral deposit to the portion of ground where the discovery was made (see sense 1d); the portion of ground thus claimed.
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1851 Alta Calif. 15 Oct. Said Fisher & Co. shall be entitled to 30 feet square as a discovery claim.
1867 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 5 Mar. Every man who discovers gold in a new creek, gulch, bar or hill, is entitled to a discovery claim.
1908 E. Higginson Alaska xliii. 473 They staked a ‘discovery’ claim, and one above and below it, as is the right of discoverers.
1958 P. Berton Klondike Fever i. 62 He had..discovered much better ground yielding thirty-five cents to the pan. Here he had staked a discovery claim.
1974 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 20 July 1/2 Bob Hufman..is in charge of the ceremony at the Pedro Monument, 17 miles out the Steese Highway near Pedro's discovery claim.
2007 J. G. Haigh Searching for Fannie Quigley ii. 29/1 George Carmack is said to have identified the discovery claim on Bonanza with a pencil-written note on a tree blaze.
discovery procedure n. (a) Law procedure for conducting the process of discovery (sense 2c); any of various procedures used for obtaining the disclosure of facts, such as requests, interrogatories, etc.; (b) Linguistics a procedure for constructing a grammar of a given language from a corpus, collection of sentences, etc. (now also used to analyse various other aspects of language).
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1891 Law Jrnl. 19 Dec. 784/1 The Master of the Rolls appears to have disliked this exclusion in connection with discovery procedure.
1933 N.Y. Times 26 Mar. (Book Review section) 19/3 The most vital contribution made by discovery procedure..is the part it plays in defining the issues and speeding elimination of untriable cases.
1957 N. Chomsky Syntactic Struct. vi. 59 Opposition to mixing levels..has its origin in the attempt to develop a discovery procedure for grammars.
1990 Studia Logica 49 452 The main goal of this paper was to exhibit new applications of unification in categorial grammar: discovery procedures.
1994 Law & Contemp. Probl. 57 No. 3. 93 Conducting formal discovery procedures, such as depositions or plant inspections..on foreign territory would violate this restriction.
2007 Lang. in Society 36 66 Interrogating the corpus first and then using the results of automated discovery procedures as clues to guide the qualitative analysis.
discovery scene n. a scene (in a play, etc.) in which a revelation or disclosure takes place, esp. one which leads to the denouement (cf. sense 2d).
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1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic iii. i. 80 What, gentlemen, do you mean to go at once to the discovery scene?
1825 Morning Chron. 30 July Miss Glover acquitted herself, in the discovery scene, with much pathos.
1939 H. D. F. Kitto Greek Trag. vii. 152 In the two great discovery scenes of the Tyrannus, the situation is not presented practically complete before our eyes.
1997 C. M. McLay in F. H. Londré Love's Labour's Lost: Crit. Ess. 217 It is not until the discovery scene of Act IV..that Berowne discovers that what men frequently call wisdom is, in reality, folly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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