to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity.
to notice or realize: I discovered I didn't have my credit card with me when I went to pay my bill.
Archaic. to make known; reveal; disclose.
Origin of discover
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English discouere(n), descuvere(n), from Anglo-French discoverir, descovrir, from Old French descovrir, descuvrir, from Late Latin discooperīre “to disclose, expose”; see origin at dis-1, cover
1. Discover,invent,originate suggest bringing to light something previously unknown. To discover may be to find something that had previously existed but had hitherto been unknown: to discover a new electricity; it may also refer to devising a new use for something already known: to discover how to make synthetic rubber. To invent is to make or create something new, especially something ingeniously devised to perform mechanical operations: to invent a device for detecting radioactivity. To originate is to begin something new, especially new ideas, methods, etc.: to originate a political movement, the use of assembly-line techniques. See also learn.
OTHER WORDS FROM discover
dis·cov·er·a·ble,adjectivedis·cov·er·a·bly,adverbnon·dis·cov·er·a·ble,adjectivepre·dis·cov·er,verb (used with object)
re·dis·cov·er,verb (used with object)un·dis·cov·er·a·ble,adjectiveun·dis·cov·ered,adjective
Anderson was working at the New York Botanical Garden in 1901 studying the water content of nuclei in starch crystals when, as the story goes, he “discovered” steam-puffed rice.
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Footprints discovered at what was once a rain-fed lake in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert suggest that humans on the move made a pit stop there more than 100,000 years ago.
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Also useful would be some sort of way to discover popular routines directly within the Alexa app.
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Researchers studying magnetization discovered that renormalization wasn’t about infinities at all.
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Curiously, as I did my research for this article, I randomly discovered Google used to guarantee some sort of Impression-based reporting in an old version of the T&C housed here.
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Will we discover whether or not Krieger is a clone this season, and will that be an ongoing plotline?
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Capaldi said it was remarkable to discover the human frailties at the center of such a mind.
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Their night takes an unexpected twist when they break into a home and discover a young girl is being held captive inside.
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But when the ship arrives at the planet, they discover Dr. Mann—played by none other than Matt Damon.