Crossword clues for discovered
discovered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discover \Dis*cov"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discovered; p. pr. & vb. n. Discovering.] [OE. discoveren, discuren, descuren, OF. descovrir, descouvrir, F. d['e]couvrir; des- (L. dis-) + couvrir to cover. See Cover.]
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To uncover. [Obs.]
Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church.
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To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown). [Archaic]
Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover The several caskets to this noble prince.
--Shak.Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
--Bacon.We will discover ourselves unto them.
--1 Sam. xiv. 8.Discover not a secret to another.
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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. [WordNet sense 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
Some to discover islands far away.
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To manifest without design; to show.
The youth discovered a taste for sculpture.
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To explore; to examine. [Obs.]
Syn: To disclose; bring out; exhibit; show; manifest; reveal; communicate; impart; tell; espy; find; out; detect. -- To Discover, Invent. We discover what existed before, but remained unknown; we invent by forming combinations which are either entirely new, or which attain their end by means unknown before. Columbus discovered America; Newton discovered the law of gravitation; Whitney invented the cotton gin; Galileo invented the telescope.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: discover)
WordNet
adj. no longer concealed; uncovered as by opening a curtain; `discovered' is archaic and primarily a theater term; "the scene disclosed was of a moonlit forest" [syn: disclosed, revealed]
discovered or determined by scientific observation; "variation in the ascertained flux depends on a number of factors"; "the discovered behavior norms"; "discovered differences in achievement"; "no explanation for the observed phenomena" [syn: ascertained, observed]
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Usage examples of "discovered".
If you remember, I told Jokan and the two Councilmen that we had discovered undamaged star maps from which we could retrace the routes of the Mil.
Had you not suspected and been able to effect Harlan's release, we might have discovered all too late the perfidy planned against the entire Alliance.
If just one, just one of those casualties had been capable of speech, we would have discovered this obscene plot.
They discovered, by what freak chance I don't remember, that the Mil cannot stand electrical currents or sonic vibrations.
Monsorlit's team discovered her and assumed she was a Tane civilian casualty, she was processed along with the others through the Clinic and ended, so fortuitously as far as Lothar is concerned, as Harlan's attendant.
And never, since the mass suicide of the gentle Siwannese, had a colony been set up where another intelligent species had been discovered by Spacedep.
You know how often your Scouts have discovered traces of other space explorations.
It never seemed intentional at that time but, in retrospect, Reeve wasn't so sure that the Hrrubans hadn't discovered an exceptionally deft evasive trick.
He inserted his fingers as he imagined Ben had done and discovered that her hard teeth could also hurt him.
No habitation had shown up in any of Landreau's scans, but the village was discovered very much an inhabited site.
Their bigotry was generally discovered soon enough to do no lasting harm and they were sent off Doona, either to Earth or to see if they would fit into a totally Human colony.
When he discovered how many colonial worlds bred horses, with vast herds far too large to be individually marked, Todd decided he'd leave that option till last.
When Ken had discovered the Hrruban village, they had been ready to leave in obedience to the prohibitions which had been hammered into their heads almost from birth: cohabitation with another species could only result in the destruction of the other species.
It's also very odd that a man who faced a life sentence should be paroled, at just about the time we have now discovered a conspiracy was evolved to discredit my friends.
He actually winked at her and she wondered if he had discovered her real identity but thought better about asking.