transitive verb. To notice or learn, especially by making an effort.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To be the first, or the first of one's group or kind, to find, learn of, or observe.

transitive verb. To learn about for the first time in one's experience.

transitive verb. To learn something about.

transitive verb. To identify (a person) as a potentially prominent performer.

transitive verb. To reveal or expose.

. To uncover; lay open to view; disclose; make visible; hence, to show.

To exhibit; allow to be seen and known; act so as to manifest (unconsciously or unin-tentionally); betray: as, to discover a generous spirit; he discovered great confusion.

To make known by speech; tell; reveal.

To gain a sight of, especially for the first time or after a period of concealment; espy: as, land was discovered on the lee bow.

Hence To gain the first knowledgeof; find out, as something that was before entirely unknown, either to men in general, to the finder, or to persons concerned: as, Columbus discovered the new world; Newton discovered the law of gravitation; we often discover our mistakes when too late.

. To explore; bring to light by examination.

. To cause to cease to be a covering; make to be no longer a cover.

=Syn. 3.. To communicate, impart.

To descry, discern, behold.

Discover, invent, agree in signifying to find out; but we discover what already exists, though to us unknown; we invent what did not before exist: as, to discover the applicability of steam to the purposes of locomotion, and to invent, the machinery necessary to use steam for these ends. (See invention.) Some things are of so mixed a character that either word may be applied to them.

To uncover; unmask one's self.

To explore.

transitive verb. To uncover.

transitive verb. To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown).

transitive verb. To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect.

transitive verb. To manifest without design; to show.

transitive verb. To explore; to examine.

intransitive verb. To discover or show one's self.

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

verb. To expose, uncover.

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

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

verb. To reconnoitre, explore (an area).

verb. To find something for the first time.

verb. find unexpectedly

verb. make a discovery

verb. get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

verb. discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of

verb. identify as in botany or biology, for example

verb. see for the first time; make a discovery

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

verb. make a discovery, make a new finding

"GORDON: You had been out there for a long, long time making music and then people started to what I call discover Donnie McClurkin."

to discover check  uncover  

conceive  conceptualise  conceptualize  find  gestate  

ascertain  catch  find  get the goods  rediscover  

Glover  Shover  cover  glover  hover  

@tpb  GLBT  leasttwo  right-on  toidentify  

advertise  ascertain  ascertain  bare  be informed  

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