Word Finder - discovered

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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 never discovered the name of the town.

Alex was away on a call when she discovered Princess in labor.

He discovered the nucleus of the cell.

If the body were there, someone would have discovered it.

She looked down at her plate before they discovered they had been observed.

She discovered the toaster this afternoon.

It's not that easy, as I discovered.

On my first surgery, I discovered what exactly was in your head.

I guarded both doll and cradle with the most jealous care; but once I discovered my little sister sleeping peacefully in the cradle.

She's the mother of the girl who discovered the bones.

That supports the suspicion that Billy and some of his friends were the ones who broke into the mine and first discovered the bones.

But how shall I speak of the glories I have since discovered in the Bible?

The number of imaginal disks in an individual is large, upwards of sixty having been discovered to take part in the formation of the outer body of a fly.

Returning to their vehicle, they cautiously left the roadway on the newly discovered track.

We assumed the skeleton would have been discovered if there was activity in there.

Later she discovered that Alice had made the call when she went to investigate why Lori's car was there.

Lana went, troubled that someone had discovered her and endangered the lives of those in the town.

She and Josh had discovered a different route.

Think of all I've discovered since I arrived.

Hughes, while engaged in experiments upon a Bell telephone in an electric circuit, discovered that a peculiar noise was produced whenever two hard electrodes, such as two wires, were - drawn across each other, or were made to touch each other with a variable degree of firmness.

A number of tombs belonging to the Roman necropolis were discovered in 1883.

This, however, is not all, for Mr Osgood points out that a skull discovered many years ago in the vicinity of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, and then named Ovibos or Bootherium cavifrons, evidently belongs to the same genus.

The objects discovered are in the Museo di Papa Giulio at Rome.

She discovered a hole in her boot the other morning, and, after breakfast, she went to her father and spelled, "Helen new boot Simpson (her brother) buggy store man."

In the course of the summer I had discovered a raft of pitch pine logs with the bark on, pinned together by the Irish when the railroad was built.

Was he actually concerned about the fact that she might have been killed, or that his hideout might have been discovered in a search for her body?

Have you discovered anything more about him yet?

Land (1891-1893, for which a recently discovered MS. was consulted); see also the same editor's Arnold Geulincx and seine Philosophie (1895), and article (translated) in Mind, xvi.

According to Japanese annals they were discovered towards the close of the 16th century, and added to the fief of a Daimyo, Ogasawa Sadayori, whence the name Ogasawarajima.

In the middle ages Plautus was little regarded, and twelve of his plays (Bacchides - Truculentus) disappeared from view until they were discovered (in the MS. called D) by Nicholas of Troves in the year 1429.

A complete life, founded on the lately discovered process of 1626 and the new letters, was being prepared by the author of the present article at the time of his death.

Orchestral wind-parts have been discovered belonging to Haydn's string-quartet Op. r, No.

The males have only recently been discovered.

Ten years later Manson discovered a second species, Filaria perstans, whose larvae live in the blood.

If the adopted child discovered his true parents and wanted to return to them, his eye or tongue was torn out.

The insulation is again tested, and if no fault is discovered the served core is passed through the sheathing machine, and the iron sheath and the outer covering are laid on.

She started from Valentia at the end of July, but fault after fault was discovered in the cable and the final misfortune was that on the 2nd of August, when nearly 1200 m.

The ancient town is chiefly celebrated for the famous Iguvine (less correctly Eugubine) Tables, which were discovered there in 1444, bought by the municipality in 1456, and are still preserved in the town hall.

Simultaneously Hermann, a German chemical manufacturer, discovered the new metal in a specimen of zinc oxide which had been thought to contain arsenic, since it gave a yellow precipitate, in acid solution, on the addition of sulphuretted hydrogen.

Anopheles clavigerwas discovered.

The mission of Gaetano Castiglia and Marquis Giorgio Pallavicini to Turin, where they had interviewed Charles Albert, although without any definite resultfor Confalonieri had warned the prince that Lombardy was not ready to risewas accidentally discovered, and Confalonieri was himself arrested.

Though kept in the dark as to the Skierniewice arrangement, the Italian government soon discovered from the course of events that the triple alliance had practically lost its object, European peace having been assured without Italian co-operation.

The Hertwigs when they discovered the endoderm-lamella showed on morphological grounds that polyp and medusa are independent types, each produced by modification in different directions of a more primitive type represented in development by the actinulastage.

Limnocodium sowerbyi was first discovered in the Victoria regia tank in the Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park, London.

Limnocnida tanganyicae was discovered first in Lake Tanganyika, but has since been discovered also in Lake Victoria and in the river Niger.

The most famous of the relics preserved in the cathedral is the "Holy Coat of Trier," believed by the devout to be the seamless robe of the Saviour, and said to have been discovered and presented to the city by the empress Helena.

He was a foundling, having been exposed near the church of St Jean le Rond, Paris, where he was discovered on the 17th of November.

Those of the later Lacustrine period, on the contrary, are so numerous that there is scarcely one lacustrine basin in the regions of the Oka, the Kama, the Dnieper, not to speak of the lake-region itself, and even the White Sea coasts, where remains of Neolithic man have not been discovered.

In restoring this church curious mural paintings were discovered.

One of the most learned men of his day, he devoted his spare time to history, and discovered that many of the oldest and most cherished Scandinavian MSS.