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discovery

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English

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Alternative forms

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discoverie(obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkʌv(.ə).ɹi/
- Audio(US): (file)
- Audio(Canada): (file)
(Indic)IPA^(key): /ɖɪsˈkəʋ.ri/,/ˈɖɪs.kə.ʋə.ri/
Hyphenation:dis‧cov‧ery
Rhymes:-ʌvəɹi

Noun

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discovery (countable anduncountable,pluraldiscoveries)

Somethingdiscovered.
This latestdiscovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.
- 1972,Mortimer J. Adler,Charles Van Doren,How to Read a Book,→ISBN,→LCCN,page25:
  Indeed, thisdiscovery of meaning in symbols may be the most astounding intellectual feat that any human being ever performs—and most humans perform it before they are seven years old!
(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.
(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[…]
(law, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up duringdiscovery.
(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.
(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."

something discovered

Albanian:zbulim (sq) m
Arabic:اِكْتِشَاف (ar) m(iktišāf)
Armenian:հայտնագործություն (hy)(haytnagorcutʻyun)
Asturian:descubrimientu m
Azerbaijani:kəşf (az)
Belarusian:адкры́цце n(adkrýccje),адкры́цьце n(adkrýcʹcje)(Taraškievica),адкрыццё n(adkryccjó),адкрыцьцё n(adkrycʹcjó)(Taraškievica)
Bengali:আবিষ্কার (bn)(abiśkar)
Bulgarian:откри́тие (bg) n(otkrítie)
Catalan:descobriment (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese:發現 /发现(faat³ jin⁶)
Mandarin:發現 /发现 (zh)(fāxiàn)
Czech:objev (cs) m
Danish:opdagelse c
Dutch:ontdekking (nl) f,vinding (nl) f
Esperanto:malkovro
Estonian:avastus (et)
Finnish:löytö (fi),löydös (fi)
French:découverte (fr) f
Galician:descubrimento (gl) m
Georgian:აღმოჩენა(aɣmočena)
German:Entdeckung (de) f
Greek:ανακάλυψη (el) f(anakálypsi)
Ancient Greek:εὕρημα n(heúrēma)
Haitian Creole:dekouvèt
Hebrew:תַּגְלִית f(taglít)
Hindi:खोज (hi) f(khoj),आविष्कार (hi) m(āviṣkār)
Hungarian:felfedezés (hu)
Icelandic:uppgötvun f
Indonesian:penemuan (id)
Interlingua:discoperta
Irish:fionnachtain f
Italian:scoperta (it) f,scoprimento m
Japanese:発見 (ja)(はっけん, hakken)
Kazakh:ашу(aşu)
Korean:발견(發見) (ko)(balgyeon)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish:keşf (ku)
Kyrgyz:ачуу (ky)(acuu),ачылыш (ky)(acılış)
Lao:ການຄົ້ນພົບ(kān khon phop)
Latin:inventio (la) f,repertum n
Latvian:atklāšana f,atklājums m
Lithuanian:atradimas m,atskleidimas m
Macedonian:откри́тие n(otkrítie)
Malay:penemuan
Mongolian:
Cyrillic:нээлт (mn)(neelt)
Mongolian script:ᠨᠡᠭᠡᠭᠡᠯᠲᠡ(negegelte)
Norwegian:
Bokmål:oppdagelse m
Occitan:descobèrta (oc) f
Old English:onfundennes f
Pashto:کشف m(kašf),کشفونه f(kašfawǝna)
Persian:
Iranian Persian:کَشْف(kašf),اِکْتِشاف(ektešâf),یافْتِه(yâfte)
Polish:odkrycie (pl) n
Portuguese:descoberta (pt) f
Romanian:descoperire (ro) f
Russian:откры́тие (ru) n(otkrýtije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:откри́ће n
Latin:otkríće n
Slovak:objav m
Slovene:odkritje (sl) n
Spanish:descubrimiento (es) m,hallazgo (es) m
Swedish:upptäckt (sv) c,fynd (sv) n
Tajik:кашф(kašf),ихтироъ(ixtiro'),кашфиёт(kašfiyot),иктишоф(iktišof)
Tamil:கண்டுபிடிப்பு (ta)(kaṇṭupiṭippu)
Thai:การค้นพบ (th)(gaan-kón-póp)
Turkish:keşif (tr)
Ottoman Turkish:كشف(keşf, keşif)
Ukrainian:відкриття́ n(vidkryttjá)
Urdu:اِنْکِشاف m(inkiśāf),دَرْیافْت f(daryāft),اِکْتِشاف m(iktiśāf)
Uyghur:بايقاش(bayqash)
Uzbek:kashfiyot (uz),ixtiro (uz)
Vietnamese:khám phá (vi)

the discovering of new things

Arabic:اِكْتِشَاف (ar) m(iktišāf)
Asturian:descubrimientu m
Bulgarian:откри́тие (bg) n(otkrítie)
Catalan:descobriment (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin:發現 /发现 (zh)(fāxiàn)
Czech:objevování n,průzkum (cs) m
Danish:opdagelse c
Dutch:ontdekking (nl) f
Esperanto:trovo (eo)
Finnish:löytäminen (fi)
French:découverte (fr) f
Galician:descubrimento (gl) m
Georgian:აღმოჩენა(aɣmočena)
German:Entdeckung (de) f
Greek:ανακάλυψη (el) f(anakálypsi)
Ancient Greek:εὕρημα f(heúrēma)
Hebrew:גילוי m(gilúy)
Hungarian:felfedezés (hu)
Interlingua:discoperta
Italian:scoperta (it) f
Japanese:発見 (ja)(はっけん, hakken)
Kazakh:ашу(aşu)
Korean:발견(發見) (ko)(balgyeon)
Latin:inventio (la) f
Latvian:atklāšana f
Lithuanian:atradimas m
Māori:tūhuratanga
Occitan:descobèrta (oc) f
Old English:onfundennes f
Persian:
Iranian Persian:کَشْف(kašf),اِکْتِشاف(ektešâf)
Polish:odkrywanie (pl) n
Portuguese:descobrimento (pt) m,descoberta (pt) f
Russian:откры́тие (ru) n(otkrýtije),открыва́ние (ru) n(otkryvánije)
Slovak:hľadanie
Spanish:descubrimiento (es) m,hallazgo (es) m
Swedish:upptäckt (sv) c,fynd (sv) n
Tamil:கண்டுபிடிப்பு (ta)(kaṇṭupiṭippu)
Thai:การค้นหา (th)(gaan-kón-hǎa)
Turkish:keşif (tr)
Ottoman Turkish:كشف(keşf, keşif)

legal: pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered

legal: materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase

Finnish:näyttö (fi)
Tamil:please add this translation if you can

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