• discoverie(obsolete)

fromdiscover +‎-ery, on the pattern of the pairrecover,recovery. Displaced nativeOld Englishonfundennes.

• IPA^(key):/dɪsˈkʌ.və.ɹi/,/-ˈkʌv.ɹi/

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• Rhymes:-ʌvəɹi
• Hyphenation:dis‧cov‧ery

discovery (countable anduncountable,pluraldiscoveries)

1. Somethingdiscovered.

   This latestdiscovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.

2. (uncountable) Thediscovering of new things.

   The purpose of the voyage wasdiscovery.

   Automaticdiscovery of RSS feeds by a Web browser.

   • 1589,Richard Hakluyt, “Iohn Cabots Patent”, inThe Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London:[…] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies toChristopher Barker, […],→OCLC,page509:

     The letters patents of king Henry the ſeuenth granted vntoIohn Cabot and his three ſonnes, Lewis, Sebastian, and Sancius, for thediscouerie of new and vnknowen lands.

3. (countable,archaic) An act of uncovering or revealing something; arevelation.
   • 1822, Alain René Le Sage,The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane:

     Don Huberto actually fell in love with his kinswoman, and had presumption enough to declare his passion[…] The lady being a woman of discretion, instead of making adiscovery, which might have been attended with melancholy consequences, reprimanded her relation with gentleness[…]

4. (law,uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.

   The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up duringdiscovery.

5. (law,uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.

   The defense argued that the plaintiff'sdiscovery was inadequate.

6. (chess) Adiscovered attack.
   • 1999,Jeremy Silman,The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions Into Chess Mastery, 2nd edition, Los Angeles, C.A.: Siles Press,→ISBN,page189:

     1700: "If I play f4, he can check me with ...Qd4, but then he has to move his Queen because he can easily lose it to a Bishopdiscovery on b5. He could also check me on c5 when his Queen might be safer. I could just move out of the way, though, and continue my attack."