- dis|cov´er|er
- dis|cov|er «dihs KUHV uhr», transitive verb.1. to see or learn of for the first time; find out: »
Until Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean most Europeans did not know it existed. No one has discovered a way to turn copper into gold.
2. to make known to the public; hail as a discovery: »Stutterin' Sam, who was 6 feet 3 inches tall, was “discovered” by Billy Rose, the showman (New York Times). One by one the famous old fishing villages of Cornwall have been noisily “discovered”—by a prominent painter, perhaps, or a best-selling novelist (John Malcolm Brinnin).
5. Obsolete. to uncover.╂[< Old French descovrir < Late Latin discooperīre < Latin dis- un- + cooperīre to cover]–dis|cov´er|er, noun.Synonym Study 1 Discover, invent mean to find something not known before. Discover means to find or find out something that already existed, but was not known about or had not been seen: »Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium.
Invent means to make or work out something that did not exist before: »Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.