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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
discovery
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ All these colonies belonged to powers whose empire-building had begun in the age of the great discoveries.
▪ No great discoveries, but at least he knew the score.
▪ He did exactly that, little knowing that he was about to stumble upon one of the greatest discoveries of this century.
▪ I had read somewhere that all the greatest discoveries had been made in the blink of an eye.
▪ He was frozen there with an appalled sense of waste, that his cohort had denied him his greatest discovery.
▪ Had I made a great discovery?
▪ Thus were born the azo dyestuffs, perhaps the greatest single discovery in the history of the dyestuffs industry.
▪ Although Fenton was active in research he made no great discoveries.
important
▪ At the same time, the public hears little about a surprising and important discovery - not an assumption - of psychometrics.
▪ However, several students educated at the Academy made important discoveries in mathematical science, both pure and applied.
▪ Two important oil discoveries in the Espinal block, Purificacion and Venganza, will be appraised in 1992.
▪ The Librarian would be glad to know of any important discoveries Mr Michell might make.
▪ Even earlier, a more important discovery was made.
▪ Glasgow Cathedral - the past revealed IMPORTANT discoveries have been made about the early history of Glasgow Cathedral during recent archaeological excavations.
late
▪ They react to the latest discoveries with blasé aplomb, remaining unruffled by theological controversy.
▪ In short, for every argument there was a counter argument, or a later discovery overturned the accepted wisdom.
▪ We collected them like rare orchids, gleefully sharing our latest acquisitions and discoveries.
▪ But this morning, she wasn't interested in my latest discoveries in skin care.
major
▪ The paper is often quoted as the original report of a major discovery, but it does not look like it.
▪ In those years, I believed I was on the verge of a major discovery.
▪ The cancer institute met the major costs of discovery, but Glaxo claims it is recovering costs.
▪ All the major gas discoveries were made between 1965 and 1967 using seismic data similar to that shown in Fig. 4.
new
▪ In regions where early civilizations had flourished new research and discoveries filled out the chronological sequences.
▪ The new discoveries are already stirring up more questions than answers.
▪ The first is to increase production through new discoveries - the second is to encourage alternative fuels.
▪ And so arrangements were made to brief the families first on any new discoveries.
▪ The new discovery, of weakness in welded joints, may delay plans to reopen the plant's two reactors.
▪ Few new scientific discoveries are completely beneficial.
▪ By then, time and sadness had dulled the need for any new discoveries about the past.
▪ Are not the journals full of new discoveries, some them important?
recent
▪ This interesting stance has been seen in more recent dinosaur fossil discoveries.
▪ Their preserved counterpart, the sun-dried cherry, is a fairly recent gourmet discovery, however.
▪ A recent discovery has shown that in kindred matters they followed a tradition current in Athens, at least in the fourth century.
▪ Our understanding of nature is now radically shifting, how-ever, because of recent discoveries in the new sciences.
▪ Synthesis of data arising from the recent discoveries of gold in south Devon suggests the presence of two phases of gold mineralisation.
▪ Laboulbeniales are a relatively recent discovery in the mycological scheme of things.
▪ The recent discovery of the persistence of vision, he insisted, has finally undermined the Neo-Classicists.
scientific
▪ Such, after all, is the pace of scientific discovery that today's knowledge is redundant tomorrow.
▪ All it needs is some degree of up-grading to keep in touch with scientific and technological discoveries.
▪ A delightfully frank account of its development shows some of the less scientific problems of discovery.
▪ No wonder the guy came up with the most revolutionary scientific discovery of a good 500-year period.
▪ In particular, pupils do not learn of the social and political implications of scientific discoveries.
▪ Few new scientific discoveries are completely beneficial.
▪ His scientific discoveries and his fight for religious and political freedom, form equally important parts of an exceptionally industrious life.
■ NOUN
gas
▪ Four significant gas discoveries and one significant oil discovery, all offshore, have been announced resulting from this activity.
▪ The government also considered the drop in drilling costs -- and rising output from the average gas discovery.
▪ Without major oil and gas discoveries, there will be a wide gap between demand and supply.
▪ Texaco is also focused on exploration, and has three deepwater gas discoveries in the Gulf.
▪ All the major gas discoveries were made between 1965 and 1967 using seismic data similar to that shown in Fig. 4.
oil
▪ Four significant gas discoveries and one significant oil discovery, all offshore, have been announced resulting from this activity.
▪ Indigenous oil discoveries proved disappointing and efforts have been directed towards hydro-electric power, nuclear and geothermal energy.
▪ Two important oil discoveries in the Espinal block, Purificacion and Venganza, will be appraised in 1992.
▪ The block is located in the Murzuk basin between proven oil discoveries and first drilling is expected in 1993.
▪ By applying the Pareto condition, we can not say that the oil discovery improves actual economic welfare.
▪ In addition, a new oil discovery was made in the Venganza prospect, to the east of Purificacion.
■ VERB
announce
▪ When Fawcett announced the discovery at a scientific meeting in Cambridge in 1935, it was ignored.
▪ Exploration is continuing in the area and RioFinex has announced the discovery of similar mineralisation at the Lack prospect west of Omagh.
follow
▪ It follows the discovery of a shortfall in the Anfield books which was spotted by the club accountant.
▪ In the 90 years following its discovery in 1875 only 5 t was recovered.
▪ It followed the discovery of a package that could have caused serious injury, writes Audrey Gillan.
▪ It followed the discovery that many old people metabolise the drug much more slowly than normal.
▪ Three widely-prescribed drugs have come under question following the discovery that they led to serious undesirable side effects.
▪ This followed the discovery of a large quantity of explosives under an apartment block in Ryazan shortly after the Moscow bombings.
lead
▪ It is hoped that it will lead to the discovery of a technique to combat diseases such as Parkinson's.
▪ None of the calls led to the discovery of explosives.
▪ Following food chains can lead to exciting discoveries.
▪ The magnetic field that led to its discovery had vanished at the moment of that radio shriek.
▪ There is always the feeling that, at any moment, something may happen that will lead to a new discovery.
▪ The microscope has led to several discoveries.
▪ Secondly, a research programme should lead to the discovery of novel phenomena at least occasionally.
▪ A swollen optic nerve found by her optometrist led to the discovery of the tumor.
make
▪ In several placed Donald Duck makes exciting discoveries by playing with a chemistry set.
▪ And along the crooked border where the landmasses once came together, the researchers made an extraordinary discovery.
▪ Henry Harlow and his colleagues made the discovery after analysing muscle biopsies from sedated bears at the start and end of hibernation.
▪ The two cleanly scrubbed grunts had made a final discovery: land mines last and last.
▪ One dreams of making miraculous discoveries ... but most of it is digging and hoping.
▪ Then in 1991, geomagnetist Brad Clement made a strange discovery.
▪ When, in 1609, Galileo constructed his first telescopes and trained them on the heavens, he made dramatic discoveries.
▪ As they venture forth from parents to explore their own worlds, children must make their own discoveries.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
voyage of discovery
▪ As the reader has seen, my six years of service was a voyage of discovery.
▪ Beside, we had come to get some-thing to eat, and not to make any voyage of discovery.
▪ Between 1768 and 1779, his own voyages of discovery filled in vast empty areas on the maps of his time.
▪ Captain James Cook, whose parents were local farmworkers, set out on his celebrated voyages of discovery from this estuary.
▪ Each expedition is a new adventure, a new voyage of discovery.
▪ In fact much of the Ancient Mariner came from the sea voyages of discovery.
▪ Marcel Proust once described voyages of discovery as seeking new landscapes and gaining new eyes.
▪ Your mission, therefore, is much more than a voyage of discovery.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Among the discoveries of the late nineteenth century were several new chemical elements, including radium.
▪ An investigation was ordered after the discovery that $89,000 was missing from the account.
▪ At first I did not realize the importance of my discovery.
▪ New archaeological discoveries prove the existence of an ancient civilization in the Indus Valley.
▪ The chance discovery of a blood-stained shirt led to the capture of the killer.
▪ The depletion of the ozone layer has been one of the most dramatic discoveries about our planet in recent years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All these were chance discoveries by scientists engaged in other pursuits.
▪ Dylan, his first independent discovery, later became, wonderfully, a friend.
▪ Had I made a great discovery?
▪ If you can get this right, the maturing of your relationship will be an interesting voyage of discovery.
▪ Photographs of the comet taken shortly after its discovery show a clear but faint tail.
▪ Their preserved counterpart, the sun-dried cherry, is a fairly recent gourmet discovery, however.
▪ Then in 1991, geomagnetist Brad Clement made a strange discovery.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discovery

Discovery \Dis*cov"er*y\, n.; pl. Discoveries.

  1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

  2. 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].
    --South.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Exploration; examination. [Obs.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
discovery

1550s, "fact of discovering;" see discover + -y (1). Earlier in this sense was discovering (mid-14c.). Meaning "that which is discovered" is from 1630s.

Wiktionary
discovery

n. 1 Something discovered. 2 (context uncountable English) The discovering of new things. 3 (context legal uncountable English) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered. 4 (context legal uncountable English) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.

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WordNet
discovery

  1. n. the act of discovering something [syn: find, uncovering]

  2. something that is discovered

  3. a productive insight [syn: breakthrough, find]

  4. (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case

Gazetteer
Discovery-Spring Garden, MD -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Maryland
Population (2000): 2152
Housing Units (2000): 731
Land area (2000): 0.952716 sq. miles (2.467522 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.952716 sq. miles (2.467522 sq. km)
FIPS code: 23005
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.463960 N, 77.360581 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Discovery (observation)

Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something "old" that had been unknown. With reference to sciences and academic disciplines, discovery is the observation of new phenomena, new actions, or new events and providing new reasoning to explain the knowledge gathered through such observations with previously acquired knowledge from abstract thought and everyday experiences. A discovery may sometimes be based on earlier discoveries, collaborations, or ideas. Some discoveries represent a radical breakthrough in knowledge or technology.

Discovery

Discovery may refer to:

  • Discovery (observation), observing or finding something unknown
  • Discovery (fiction), a character's learning something unknown
  • Discovery (law), a process in courts of law relating to evidence

Discovery, The Discovery or Discoveries may also refer to:

Discovery (Electric Light Orchestra album)

Discovery is the eighth studio album by British symphonic rock band, Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).

Discovery (law)

Discovery, in the law of the United States and other countries, is a pre-trial procedure in a lawsuit in which each party, through the law of civil procedure, can obtain evidence from the other party or parties by means of discovery devices such as a request for answers to interrogatories, request for production of documents, request for admissions and depositions. Discovery can be obtained from non-parties using subpoenas. When a discovery request is objected to, the requesting party may seek the assistance of the court by filing a motion to compel discovery.

Discovery (British TV programme)

Discovery was a documentary television series produced by Duncan Dallas, Yorkshire Television. It was first shown in England in 1974.

The first episode was about the post-encephalitic patients described by the neurologist Oliver Sacks (see Awakenings). The documentary won a Red ribbon at the 1978 American Film Festival and first prize at the 1978 International Rehabilitation Film Festival.

Category:ITV television programmes

Discovery (Mike Oldfield album)

Discovery or its alternative title Discovery & The Lake (as printed on the album rear and spine) is the ninth album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1984.

It was recorded at Oldfield's then-home in Villars-sur-Ollon in the Swiss Alps where he was living for tax reasons. Oldfield also wrote The Killing Fields, the soundtrack to the 1984 film of the same name there.

Discovery (horse)

Discovery (1931–1958) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse. In a racing career which lasted from 1933 to 1936 he ran sixty-three times and won twenty-seven races. One of the leading American three-year-olds of his generation in 1934, he became a dominant performer in the next two seasons. The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame said that he was: "...considered one of the greatest horses of the 20th century."

Discovery (Mr. Children album)

Discovery is the seventh original album by Mr. Children, released on February 3, 1999.

Discovery (apple)

'Discovery' is an early season dessert apple cultivar. One of its parents was the ' Worcester Pearmain', with the pollinator thought to possibly be ' Beauty of Bath'.

Discovery (Daft Punk album)

Discovery is the second studio album by the French house music duo Daft Punk, released on 26 February 2001 by Virgin Records. It marks a shift in the sound from Chicago house which they were previously known for to disco, post-disco, garage house, and synthpop-inspired house. The album later became the soundtrack of the anime film Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, a collaboration between Daft Punk, Leiji Matsumoto, and Toei Animation. All of the music videos for the tracks on the album are segments of the film, which follows a story of a kidnapped extraterrestrial band. Discovery is recognized as a concept album in reviews by New Musical Express and Spin magazines. Early versions of the album included a "Daft Club" membership card. The card included a code which granted access to an online music service, which featured tracks later released on the album of the same name and Alive 1997.

Discovery (Shanice album)

Discovery is the debut studio album by American R&B/pop singer Shanice, released October 21, 1987 by A&M Records. Shanice at the time was fourteen years old with a very mature singing voice. Singer Teena Marie originally produced the majority of the album, but A&M Records felt the songs were too mature for her age. Bryan Loren was then chosen by A&M Records to produce new tracks that were used for the album. The singles " (Baby Tell Me) Can You Dance," and "No 1/2 Steppin'" were top 10 R&B hits. "The Way You Love Me," and "I'll Bet She's Got A Boyfriend" were the final singles from the album.

Smooth jazz singer Will Downing covered the song "Just a Game" on his 1995 album Moods.

Discovery (Irish TV series)

Discovery was the first documentary television series to be broadcast on RTÉ. The series started on 7 January 1964 with a programme on Dublin Airport.

The series producer was Charlie Scott, and Brian Cleeve was the presenter and scriptwriter. Each half-hour edition focused on a specific subject, such as a commercial or state enterprise, an aspect of Irish culture, or some notable feature of the country's landscape.

In December 1964, Brian Cleeve received a Jacobs' Award for his contribution to the programme. However, in January 1966, it was announced that Cleeve was being dropped as the series' narrator because his voice was no longer felt to be suitable. Later that year, he left the programme completely to join the new 7 Days team.

Following Cleeve's departure, Discovery continued for another season using a number of alternative presenters, such as Paddy Gallagher, John Skehan, Michael Viney, and Terry Wogan.

In 2002, RTÉ screened digitally remastered versions of several of the original programmes. The topics covered included skydiving, mountaineering in the Wicklow mountains, and lighthouses off the Cork coast.

Discovery (music video)

Discovery is a music video album by the Electric Light Orchestra.

Recorded in 1979 shortly after the completion of the Discovery studio album. The track listing is identical to the studio LP; each of the album's songs has its own corresponding promotional video. It received TV airings on The Blue Jean Network in 1980 among others, with releases on VHS in 1979, then later on the "Out of the Blue Tour" Live at Wembley/Discovery 1998 DVD/VHS. The video album was produced because Jeff Lynne refused to go on tour to promote the album as was customary but instead presented it in the relatively new video format. This helped launch the nascent long-form music video market. The song's videos marked the last appearance for the band's cellists.

Discovery (synth)

Discovery is a software synthesizer VSTi and Audio Units plugin designed and distributed by discoDSP originally released on February 10, 2003. On September 4, 2008, discoDSP released a version for Linux marking the first commercial VSTi plugin available on Linux platform. Discovery is also available for Windows and Mac OS X.

By design Discovery is a subtractive synthesizer with 4 voices (2 oscillators each). It has built in arpeggiator, selection of filters including formant filters, monophonic and polyphonic operation. It is also comes bundled with extensive collection of presets and is able to import Clavia Nord Lead presets.

Works seamlessly in Synapse Audio Orion & Orion Platinum, Apple Logic Audio & GarageBand, Cockos Reaper, Renoise and Ableton Live virtual studio environments.

Discovery (band)

Discovery is the American indie rock, electronic recording project of Rostam Batmanglij, the keyboardist from Vampire Weekend, and Wesley Miles, the vocalist from Ra Ra Riot, friends who began recording together in the summer of 2005.

Discovery (Larry Carlton album)

Discovery is an album by Larry Carlton, released in 1987.It also features Kirk Whalum and his tenor saxophone solos on several tracks, with Terry Trotter on keyboards, John Peña on bass and Rick Marotta on drums.

Discovery (Mamoru Miyano song)

"Discovery" is Japanese voice actor Mamoru Miyano's second single, released on June 4, 2008. It had peaked at #24 on the Oricon charts. The title track was used as the ending for the PlayStation 2 game Fushigi Yugi Suzaku Ibun.

Discovery (Canadian TV series)

Discovery is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television from 1962 to 1963.

Discovery (Pink Floyd box set)

Pink Floyd: Discovery is a compilation box set by Pink Floyd released on 26 September 2011 to launch the Why Pink Floyd...? re-release campaign. The box set includes all of their standard studio albums, bar The Endless River, which would not be released for another three years. All albums were newly remastered by James Guthrie. In addition to the albums the set comes with a 60-page artwork booklet designed by Storm Thorgerson.

Discovery (1960s TV series)

Discovery was a television program geared towards children and teenagers, produced by ABC News. The program began in the fall of 1962 as a weekday series, and was later moved to Sunday mornings. The program was hosted by actor/announcer Frank Buxton and actress/vocalist Virginia Gibson. The show's original studio announcer was ABC staff announcer Bill Owen, who replaced Buxton as host in 1966, continuing through 1971. The shows hosted by Buxton were mostly studio productions, done in black-and-white; beginning with Owen, the shows were produced in color, and involved much travel to on-site locations. The actual on-air title of the series was named according to each year it was produced, beginning with Discovery '62 and ending with Discovery '71 (syndicated reruns only had the title Discovery).

The show's executive producer was Jules Power, the former co-producer of NBC's Mr. Wizard. The Discovery format originally had Buxton and Gibson (joined by a hound dog named Corpuscle) in studio, exploring various topics in science, culture, history and the arts, often with special in-studio guests. Later seasons of the show had Buxton and Gibson (and later Owen and Gibson, and sometimes Gibson alone) traveling on location (without the dog) to different destinations around the world in a documentary format. Discovery was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program several times, winning in 1964.

Discovery was replaced in 1971 by Make a Wish, which in turn was replaced by Animals, Animals, Animals in 1976 (and ended in the summer of 1981).

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Usage examples of "discovery".

What appears to have pleased Adams no less was the discovery during his parting call at Versailles that his French had so improved he could manage an extended conversation and speak as rapidly as he pleased.

Once, for no reason other than intellectual curiosity, Adams rode to Windsor to call on the famous English astronomer Sir William Herschel, whose crowning achievement had been the discovery of the planet Uranus.

Then came the discovery that adrenochrome, which is a product of the decomposition of adrenalin, can produce many of the symptoms observed in mescalin intoxication.

Best known to us of all the Indians are the Algonkins and Iroquois, who, at the time of the discovery, were the sole possessors of the region now embraced by Canada and the eastern United States north of the thirty-fifth parallel.

The group of women whom Amathera used to meet in secret were friends Andric despised, and the shocking discovery that she financed several smuggling craft led nowhere.

Sharpey, and others, have been in communication with Members of both Houses of Parliament to arrange terms of a Bill which would prevent any unnecessary cruelty or abuse in experiments made on living animals for purposes of scientific discovery.

It would seem to be generally believed, that by reason of experiments made within its walls upon the lower animals, discoveries of the utmost value to the human race are bing added to the resources of medical science.

In the discovery of anaesthesia, general and local, painful experiment on animals has played no indispensable part whatever.

Dinosaurs were unrecorded from Antarctica until 1987, when an ankylosaur was reported by a scientific party from Argentina, and in the winter of 1991 a prosauropod discovery made it onto the front pages of our newspapers.

These democrats of Appenzell have not yet made the American discovery that pulpits are profaned by any utterance of national sentiment, or any application of Christian doctrine to politics.

There is nothing your world can do to harm me, other than hinder my parameters and areas of exploration and scientific discovery.

SAS team could cope with anything except discovery, because that might very well mean death from an Arg helicopter gunship combing the area where someone had located them.

But, as both these claims of discovery present sufficient interest to the Australasian student, and are indirectly connected with our subject, we have not dismissed them entirely.

Delmar Morgan, two eminent writers on Australasian maritime discovery.

Hamy, himself a member of the French Institute in question, and one of the best informed scientists in matters relating to Australasian maritime discovery.