The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discovery \Dis*cov"er*y\, n.; pl. Discoveries.
The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.
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A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets.
In the clear discoveries of the next [world].
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Finding out or ascertaining something previously unknown or unrecognized; as, Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood.
A brilliant career of discovery and conquest.
--Prescott.We speak of the ``invention'' of printing, the discovery of America.
--Trench. That which is discovered; a thing found out, or for the first time ascertained or recognized; as, the properties of the magnet were an important discovery.
Exploration; examination. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
n. (plural of discovery English)
Wikipedia
Discoveries may refer to:
- Discoveries, a work by William Butler Yeats, written in 1907
- Discoveries (film), a 1939 British film
- Discoveries (Robertson Davies), a 2002 book by Robertson Davies
- Discoveries (Cannonball Adderley album), 1955
- Discoveries (Josh Nelson album), 2011
- Discoveries (Northlane album), 2011
- Discoveries (TV series), a Canadian youth science television series which aired on CBC Television in 1957
- Portuguese discoveries, Intensive maritime exploration by the Portuguese during the 15th and 16th centuries
Discoveries is a compilation album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Savoy label featuring alternate takes of tracks from Adderley's recording debut originally released as Kenny Clarke's Bohemia After Dark (1955) and his first album Presenting Cannonball Adderley (1955) performed by a quintet with Nat Adderley, Hank Jones, Paul Chambers, and Kenny Clarke and a septet with Donald Byrd and Jerome Richardson added and Horace Silver replacing Jones.
Discoveries is a Canadian youth science television series which aired on CBC Television in 1957.
'Discoveries ' is a 1939 British, black-and-white, musical, directed by Redd Davis and starring Ronald Shiner as Jim Pike. It was produced by the British Grand National Pictures, which is not to be confused with the later, American Grand National Films Inc.
The film is notable for introducing the song " There'll Always Be an England", which is sung onscreen by the boy soprano Glyn Davies, and which after war broke out on 1 September gained an enormous success as sung by Vera Lynn.
Discoveries is the fifth studio album by the jazz pianist Josh Nelson. The album was released by Steel Bird Music on September 6, 2011.
Discoveries is the debut album from Australian metalcore band Northlane. It was released by We Are Unified on 11 November 2011. The cube featured on the album art is a "printed out, and origami folded, edited image from the [Hubble Space Telescope]".
Usage examples of "discoveries".
In a time like ours, when we are primarily concerned with the practical application of scientific discoveries, we are mostly accustomed to regard such flights of thought from a past age as nothing but the unessential accompaniment of youthful, immature science, and to smile at them accordingly as historical curiosities.
In the seventeenth century we have the discoveries of Tasman, and towards its close English adventurers reported having reached high latitudes in the South Atlantic.
On account of the great geographical discoveries, the important scientific results?
Apart from the discoveries and experiences of earlier explorers -- which, of course, were a necessary condition of success -- both the plan and its execution are the ripe fruit of Norwegian life and experience in ancient and modern times.
When in a year's time we have Captain Scott back safe and sound with all his discoveries and observations on the other route, Amundsen's results will greatly increase in value, since the conditions will then be illuminated from two sides.
The region investigated becomes so much greater, the discoveries so many more, and the importance of the observations is more than doubled, often multiplied many times.
Though he was accounted a buccaneer, we owe him honour for the geographical discoveries he made.
If Ross had not received this intelligence, it is quite possible that the epoch-making geographical discoveries associated with his name would have been delayed for many years.
A few minor geographical discoveries were made, but none of any great importance.
And here once more, as in the history of Galvani's discoveries, we encounter certain undercurrents of longing and expectation in the human soul which seemed to find an answer through this sudden, great advance in the knowledge of electricity - an advance which has again led to practical applications of the utmost significance for human society, though not at all in the way first hoped for.
What Crookes himself thought about these discoveries in the realm of the cathode rays we may judge from the title, 'Radiant Matter', or 'The Fourth State of Matter', which he gave to his first publication about them.
Kepler's discoveries were a proof that man's searching mind is given insight into great truths at any stage of its development, provided it keeps to the virtue of practising pure observation.
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Fred is a marvelous craftsman and the gentleman who built the dozen or more models of our shipwreck discoveries that I display in my office.
But as long as they are driven by insatiable curiosity, new discoveries will continue to surface.