Word Finder - discover

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To find or learn something for the first time.

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Turning the corner, I discovered a lovely little shop. I discovered that they sold widgets.

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

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To expose, uncover.

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The gust of wind discovered a bone in the sand.

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

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This move discovers an attack on a vital pawn.

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

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I discovered my plans to the rest of the team.

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To reconnoitre, explore (an area).

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To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

I want to discover what I can do.

She woke in the morning to discover she was alone.

He is trying to discover something by looking at me!

She'd lost a family and a world, only to discover the other half of her soul in the man before her.

To discover and define those laws is the problem of history.

You might discover you bit off more than you could chew.

But on nearer approach we should discover our error.

Yet, look where she would, Dorothy could discover no bells at all in the great glass hall.

In some they are difficult to discover.

His thoughts represent a transitional movement, and it is difficult to discover in them anything like a systematic philosophy.

Robinson was unable to discover any certain traces of either name or ruins.

You'll soon discover just how easy it is to be green!

Pierre's insanity consisted in not waiting, as he used to do, to discover personal attributes which he termed "good qualities" in people before loving them; his heart was now overflowing with love, and by loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.

If we go to Mill to discover what it is, we find that " it is not pretended that the law of diminishing return was operative from the beginning of society; and though some political economists may have believed it to come into operation earlier than it does, it begins quite early enough to support the conclusions they founded on it."

Discover cards start with a prefix of 6011.

She lay in his arms, afraid to answer the desire pounding at the door of her heart — afraid he would discover she was no longer the woman he married.

It was worse than the morning after he slept with human-Deidre and awoke to discover whom he spent the night with.

His object in the Traite des verites premieres (1717), his best-known work, is to discover the ultimate principle of knowledge.

She chanced a look at his face only to discover that he was laughing.

In some cases the closest examination has failed to detect any distinction that may be called specific between the members of their avifauna; but in most it is possible to discover just sufficient difference to warrant a separation of the subjects.

To understand Wundt is to discover what a mess modern psychology has made to metaphysics.

At last his superiors seemed to discover his real difficulties.

Now, turning to the actual effects, we discover somewhat remarkable facts.

Variables of the Algol class are rendered difficult to discover by the incidental character of their fluctuations.

Mahomet himself, so far as we can discover, never wrote down anything.

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Carmen dressed in the nicest slacks that she owned and was relieved to discover that Alex and Katie were both dressed casually.

These four lines of inquiry have shown that the Crucifixion fell on Friday, Nisan 14 (rather than 15), in one of the six years 28-33 A.D.; and therefore, if it is possible to discover (i.) exactly which moon or month was reckoned each year as the moon or month of Nisan, and (ii.) exactly on what day that particular moon or month was reckoned as beginning, it will, of course, be possible to tell in which of these years Nisan 14 fell on a Friday.

Great fluency and ease of diction, considerable warmth of imagination and moral sentiment, and a sharp eye to discover any oddity of style or violation of the accepted canons of good taste, made his criticisms pungent and effective.

Through all history the spirit of God has breathed; everywhere we discover the traces of His revelation.

Alpheus Hyatt (1838-1902) was the first to discover (1866) that these changes in the form of the ammonite shell agreed closely with those which had been passed through in the ancestral history of the ammonites.

To understand noumenal idealism in Germany and the rise of metaphysical idealism in modern times is to discover that psychological is the origin of all metaphysical idealism.

In reply to Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, he published the Age of Revelation (1790); he also published a volume entitled A Star in the West, or a Humble Attempt to Discover the Long Lost Ten Tribes of Israel (1816), in which he endeavours to prove that the American Indians may be the ten lost tribes.

Viewing the contents of mind as matter of experience, he can discover among them only and im- one distinction, a distinction expressed by the terms. impressions and ideas.

I cannot discover any theory which gives me satisfaction on this head...

Notwithstanding the great development which he gave to his work and the almost unprecedented amount of discussion to which it gave rise, it remains a matter of some difficulty to discover what solid contribution he has made to our knowledge, nor is it easy to ascertain precisely what practical precepts, not already familiar, he founded on his theoretic principles.

During the dark ages, in the Byzantine East, as well as in the West, Hellenism had become little more than a dried and shrivelled tradition, although the closer study of Byzantine culture in latter years has seemed to discover more vitality than was once supposed.

It is not always easy to discover, putting together the trustworthy evidence of Justinian's own laws and the angry complaints of Procopius, what was the nature and justification of the changes made in the civil administration.

It fell to Cimon's lot in 469 B.C. to discover the hero's grave at Scyrus and bring back his bones to Athens.

This problem he had attacked in 1774, and in subsequent years he made various attempts to discover the acid which, under the influence of his oxygen theory, he expected would be formed.

One of the purposes of the expedition was to discover whether the rate of combustion of a candle varies with the density of the atmosphere in which it is burnt, a question which was answered in the negative.

It was left for modern research to discover rules of harmony which the Romans obeyed unconsciously.

How does the whole process from sense to inference discover the real truth of judgments, which are true so far as they signify things known by sense, memory, experience and inference?

Moreover, the study of analogical and inductive inference is necessary to that of the syllogism itself, because they discover the premises of syllogism.

It is clear then that a man's metaphysics and psychology must colour his logic. It is accordingly necessary to the logician to know beforehand the general distinctions and principles of things in metaphysics, and the mental operations of sense, conception, memory and experience in psychology, so as to discover the processes of inference from experience about things in logic.

But in induction the given particulars are the evidence by which we discover the universal,, e.g.

It is of moment, then, to discover from his emphasis, whether by iteration or by fulness of scale, what objects he had in mind in writing.

He attacked Sir Isaac Newton's chronological system with success; but he himself lost not only time but money in an endeavour to discover the longitude.

Thomsen, to decipher these inscriptions, and to discover that they belonged to the Turkish Iron Age.