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Meaning of discover

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  discover
      v 1: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of;
           "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water";
           "We found traces of lead in the paint" [syn: {detect},
           {observe}, {find}, {discover}, {notice}]
      2: get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "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}, {discover},
         {see}]
      3: make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered
         X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary
         particle" [syn: {discover}, {find}]
      4: make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The
         story is false, so far as I can discover" [syn: {discover},
         {find}]
      5: find unexpectedly; "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}, {discover}]
      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; "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},
         {discover}, {expose}, {divulge}, {break}, {give away}, {let
         out}]
      7: see for the first time; make a discovery; "Who discovered the
         North Pole?"
      8: identify as in botany or biology, for example [syn:
         {identify}, {discover}, {key}, {key out}, {distinguish},
         {describe}, {name}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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