discover
1. discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of (Freq. 21)
- She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water
- We found traces of lead in the paint
• Syn:
detect, observe, find, notice
• Derivationally related forms:
notice (for: notice), discoverer, discovery, find (for: find), finder (for: find), finding (for: find), observable (for: observe), observant (for: observe), observer (for: observe), observation (for: observe), observance (for: observe), detection (for: detect), detector (for: detect), detecting (for: detect)
• Hypernyms:
spy, sight
• Hyponyms:
find out, catch out, sense, instantiate, trace, see
• Verb Group:
find
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
2. get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally (Freq. 21)
- I learned that she has two grown-up children
- I see that you have been promoted
• Syn:
learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up,
find out, get a line, see
• Derivationally related forms:
discovery
• Hyponyms:
get the goods, wise up, trip up, catch, ascertain, find
• Verb Group:
witness, find, see
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE (for: see)
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- Somebody ----s PP (for: get a line)
- Somebody ----s PP (for: get wind)
- Somebody ----s (for: get word)
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE (for: hear)
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE (for: learn)
- They discover that there was a traffic accident
3. make a discovery, make a new finding (Freq. 18)
- Roentgen discovered X-rays
- Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle
• Syn:
find
• Derivationally related forms:
find (for: find), finding (for: find), discoverer, discovery
• Hypernyms:
gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
• Verb Group:
find, determine, find out, ascertain, detect,
observe, notice
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
4. make a discovery (Freq. 16)
- She found that he had lied to her
- The story is false, so far as I can discover
• Syn:
find
• See Also:
find out (for: find)
• Derivationally related forms:
find (for: find), discovery
• Hypernyms:
learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up,
find out, get a line, see
• Hyponyms:
rake up, ferret out, ferret
• Verb Group:
find
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
5. find unexpectedly (Freq. 6)
- the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb
- she struck a goldmine
- The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake
• Syn:
fall upon, strike, come upon, light upon, chance upon,
come across, chance on, happen upon, attain
• Derivationally related forms:
discovery
• Hypernyms:
find, regain
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
6. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret (Freq. 4)
- The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold
- The actress won't reveal how old she is
- bring out the truth
- he broke the news to her
- unwrap the evidence in the murder case
• Syn:
unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal,
expose, divulge, break, give away, let out
• Derivationally related forms:
giveaway (for: give away), divulgement (for: divulge), divulgence (for: divulge), exposure (for: expose), expose (for: expose), discovery, revelation (for: reveal), revealing (for: reveal), disclosure (for: disclose)
• Hypernyms:
tell
• Hyponyms:
blackwash, muckrake, blow, out, come out of the closet,
come out, spring, betray, bewray, confide, leak,
spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach,
babble, sing, babble out, blab out, reveal
• Verb Group:
break, get out, get around
• Cause:
break, get out, get around
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
7. see for the first time;
make a discovery (Freq. 1)
- Who discovered the North Pole?
• Derivationally related forms:
discovery
• Hyponyms:
rediscover
• Entailment:
perceive, comprehend
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
8. identify as in botany or biology, for example
• Syn:
identify, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name
• Derivationally related forms:
name (for: name), naming (for: name), identifiable (for: identify), identification (for: identify), identity (for: identify)
• Entailment:
classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
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