Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 62
Discontinuance (n.) (Law) 中止；廢止；撤銷（訴訟） That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered. -- Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.
Syn: Cessation; intermission; discontinuation; separation; disunion; disjunction; disruption; break.
Discontinuance (n.) The act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) [syn: discontinuance, discontinuation] [ant: continuance, continuation].
Discontinuance, () pleading. A chasm or interruption in the pleading.
Discontinuance, () It is a rule, that every pleading, must be an answer to the whole of what is adversely alleged. Com. Dig. Pleader, E 1, ri 4; 1 Saund. 28, n. 3; 4
Rep. 62, a. If, therefore, in an action of trespass for breaking a close, and cutting three hundred trees, the defendant pleads as to cutting all but two hundred trees, some matter of justification or title, and as to the two hundred trees says nothing, the plaintiff is entitled to sign judgment, as by nil dicit against him, in respect of the two hundred trees, and to demur, or reply to the plea, as to the remainder of the trespasses. On the other hand, if he demurs or replies to the plea, without signing, judgment for the part not answered, the whole action is said to be discontinued. For the plea, if taken by the plaintiff as an answer to the, whole action, it being, in fact, a partial answer only, is, in contemplation of law, a mere nullity, and a discontinuance takes place. And such discontinuance will amount to error on the record; such error is cured, however, after verdict, by the statute of Jeo fails, 32 H. VIII. c. 80; and after judgment by nil dicit, confession, or non sum informatus, by stat. 4 Ann. c. 16. It is to be observed, that as to the plaintiff's course of proceeding, there is a distinction between a case like this, where the defendant does not profess to answer the whole, and a case where, by the commencement of his plea, he professes to do so, but, in fact, gives a defective and partial answer, applying to part only. The latter case amounts merely to insufficient pleading, and the plaintiff's course, therefore, is not to sign judgment for the part defectively answered, but to demur to the whole plea. 1 Saund. 28, n.
Discontinuance, () It is to be observed, also, that where the part of pleading to which no answer is given, is immaterial, or such as requires no separate or specific answer for example, if it be mere matter of allegation, the rule does not in that case apply. Id. See Com. Dig. Pleader, W; Bac. Abr. Pleas, P.
Discontinuance, () estates. An alienation made or suffered by the tenant in tail, or other tenant seised in autre droit, by which the issue in, tail, or heir or successor, or those in reversion or remainder, are driven to their action, and cannot enter.
Discontinuance, () The term discontinuance is used to distinguish those cases where the party whose freehold is ousted, can restore it only by action, from those in which he ma restore it by entry. Co. Litt. 325 a 3 Bl. Com. 171; Ad. Ej. 35 to 41; Com. Dig. h.t.; Bac. Ab. h.t.; Vin. Ab. h.t.; Cruise's Dig. Index, b.. t..5 2 Saund. Index, h.t.
Discontinuance, () practice. This takes place when a plaintiff leaves a chasm in the proceedings of his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day, and time to time, as he ought. 3 Bl. Com. 296. See Continuance. A discontinuance, also, is an entry upon the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action.
Discontinuance, () The plaintiff cannot discontinue his action after a demurrer joined and entered, or after a verdict or a writ of inquiry without leave of court. Cro. Jac. 35 1, Lilly's Abr. 473; 6 Watts & Serg. 1417. The plaintiff is, on discontinuance, generally liable for costs. But in some cases, he is not so liable. See 3 Johns. R. 249; 1 Caines' R. 116; 1 Johns. R. 143; 6 Johns. R. 333; 18 Johns. R. 252; 2 Caines' Rep. 380; Com. Dig. Pleader, W 5; Bac. Abr. Pleas' P.
Discontinuation (n.) Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.
Upon any discontinuation of parts, made either by bubbles or by shaking the glass, the whole mercury falls. -- Sir I. Newton.
Discontinuation (n.) The act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) [syn: discontinuance, discontinuation] [ant: continuance, continuation].
Discontinued (imp. & p. p.) of Discontinue.
Discontinuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discontinue.
Discontinue (v. t.) 停止，中斷；【律】中止（訴訟程序） To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
Discontinue (v. i.) 停止，中斷To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
Discontinue (v. i.) To be separated or severed; to part.
Discontinuee (n.) (Law) One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.
Discontinuer (n.) One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee.
He was no gadder abroad, not discontinuer from his convent for a long time. -- Fuller.
Discontinuity (n.) 斷絕；中斷；裂痕 Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts.
Discontinuor (n.) One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.
Discontinuous (a.) 間斷的，斷續的 Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.
A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. -- De Quincey.
Discontinuous (a.) Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping. "Discontinuous wound." -- Milton.
Discontinuous function (Math.), A function which for certain values or between certain values of the variable does not vary continuously as the variable increases. The discontinuity may, for example, consist of an abrupt change in the value of the function, or an abrupt change in its law of variation, or the function may become imaginary.
Discontinuous (a.) Of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities [ant: continuous].
Discontinuous (a.) Not continuing without interruption in time or space; "discontinuous applause"; "the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas"; "he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling" [syn: discontinuous, noncontinuous] [ant: continuous, uninterrupted].
Disconvenience (n.) Unsuitableness; incongruity. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Disconvenient (a.) Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted. -- Bp. Reynolds.
Discophile (n.) 唱片收集（研究）家 One who studies and collects phonograph records or CDs.
Discophora (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species. -- Dis*coph"o*rous, a.
Discord (n.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. -- Prov. vi. 19.
Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire. -- Burke.
Discord (n.) (Mus.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.
For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds meeting. -- Bacon.
Apple of discord. See under Apple.
Syn: Variance; difference; opposition; contrariety; clashing; dissension; contention; strife; disagreement; dissonance.
Discord (v. i.) To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit. [Obs.]
The one discording with the other. -- Bacon.
Discord (n.) Lack of agreement or harmony [syn: discord, strife].
Discord (n.) Disagreement among those expected to cooperate [syn: discord, dissension].
Discord (n.) A harsh mixture of sounds [syn: discordance, discord].
Discord (n.) Strife resulting from a lack of agreement [syn: discord, discordance].
Discord (v.) Be different from one another [syn: disagree, disaccord, discord] [ant: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally].
Discord (n.) (Disagreement) [ U ] (Formal) 看法不一致，缺乏共識 The state of not agreeing or sharing opinions.
// Marital discord.
// A note of discord has crept into relations between the two countries.
Compare : Concord
Concord (n.) [ U ] (Formal) 協調；和諧；和睦 Agreement and peace between countries and people.
// Nations living in concord.
Concord (n.) [ U ] (Specialized) (Language) （文法中單複數等的）一致，一致關係 The situation in which the words in a sentence match each other according to the rules of grammar, for example when the verb is plural because the subject of the sentence is plural.
Discord (n.) (Sound) [ C or U ] (Specialized) (Music) 不和諧音 A group of musical notes that give an unpleasant sound when played together.
Discordable (a.) That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. [R.] -- Halliwell. Discordance
Discordance (n.) Alt. of Discordancy
Discordancy (n.) State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency.
There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. -- I. Taylor.
Discordance (n.) A harsh mixture of sounds [syn: discordance, discord].
Discordance (n.) Strife resulting from a lack of agreement [syn: discord, discordance].
Discordant (n.) Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce. -- Motley.
Discordant (n.) [See Discord, n.,]
Discordant (n.) (Mus.) Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.
For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart. -- Longfellow.
Discordant (n.) (Geol.) Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.
Syn: Disagreeing; incongruous; contradictory; repugnant; opposite; contrary; inconsistent; dissonant; harsh; jarring; irreconcilable. -- Dis*cord"ant*ly, adv. -- Dis*cord"ant*ness, n. [R.]
Discordant (a.) Not in agreement or harmony; "views discordant with present-day ideas" [ant: accordant].
Discordant (a.) Lacking in harmony [syn: discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonic].
Discordful (a.) Full of discord; contentious. [Obs.] "His discordful dame." -- Spenser.
Discordous (a.) Full of discord. [Obs.]
Discorporate (a.) Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate. [Obs.] -- Jas. II.
Discorporate (a.) Not having a material body; "bodiless ghosts" [syn: discorporate, unembodied, bodiless, unbodied, disembodied].
Discorrespondent (a.) Incongruous. -- W. Montagu.
Discost (v. i.) Same as Discoast. [Obs.]
Discounsel (v. t.) To dissuade. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Discount (v. i.) To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
Discount (n.) A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted.
Discount (n.) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
Discount (n.) The rate of interest charged in discounting.
At a discount, below par, or below the nominal value; hence, colloquially, out of favor; poorly esteemed; depreciated.
Bank discount, A sum equal to the interest at a given rate on the principal (face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it become due.
Discount broker, One who makes a business of discounting commercial paper; a bill broker.
Discount day, A particular day of the week when a bank discounts bills.
True discount, The interest which, added to a principal, will equal the face of a note when it becomes due. The principal yielding this interest is the present value of the note.
Discounted (imp. & p. p.) of Discount.
Discounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discount.
Discount (v. t.) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
Discount (v. t.) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
Discount only unexceptionable paper. -- Walsh.
Discount (v. t.) To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
Discount (v. t.) To leave out of account; to take no notice of. [R.]
Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's). -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Discount (n.) The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise [syn: discount, price reduction, deduction].
Discount (n.) Interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan [syn: discount rate, discount, bank discount].
Discount (n.) A refund of some fraction of the amount paid [syn: rebate, discount].
Discount (n.) An amount or percentage deducted [syn: deduction, discount].
Discount (v.) Bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances" [syn: dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore].
Discount (v.) Give a reduction in price on; "I never discount these books -- they sell like hot cakes."
Discount, () practice. A set off, or defalcation in an action. Vin. Ab. h.t.
Discount, () contracts. An allowance made upon prompt payment in the purchase of goods; it is also the interest allowed in advancing money upon bills of exchange, or other negotiable securities due at a future time And to discount, signifies the act of buying a bill of exchange, or promissory note for a less sum than that which upon its face, is payable.
Discount, () Among merchants, the term used when a bill of exchange is transferred, is, that the bill is sold, and not that it is discounted. See Poth. De l'Usure, n. 128 3 Pet. R. 40.
Discountable (a.) 不可全信的；【商】可打折扣的；可貼現的 Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.
Discountenance (n.) 不贊成，反對 Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.
He thought a little discountenance on those persons would suppress that spirit. -- Clarendon.
Discountenanced (imp. & p. p.) of Discountenance.
Discountenancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discountenance.
Discountenance (v. t.) 使丟臉；不贊成 To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash.
How would one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised! -- Milton.
The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. -- Sir W. Scott.
Discountenance (v. t.) To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage.
A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot. -- Bancroft.
Discountenance (v.) Look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends."
Discountenance (v.) Show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced."
Discountenancer (n.) One who discountenances; one who disfavors.
Discounter (n.) 廉價商店，折扣商店 [C] One who discounts; a discount broker. -- Burke.
Discounter (n.) A sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price [syn: discount house, discount store, discounter, wholesale house].
Discourage (n.) Lack of courage; cowardliness.
Discouraged (imp. & p. p.) of Discourage.
Discouraging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discourage.
Discourage (v. t.) 使洩氣，使沮喪；勸阻；打消 [（+from）]；阻擋，防止 [（+from）]；不允許 To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. -- Col. iii. 21.
Discourage (v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade; disfavor.
Discourage (v.) Try to prevent; show opposition to; "We should discourage
this practice among our youth" [syn: deter, discourage].
Discourage (v.) Deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged [ant: encourage].
Discourage (v.) Admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior; "I warned him not to go too far"; "I warn you against false assumptions"; "She warned him to be quiet" [syn: warn, discourage, admonish, monish].
Discourageable (a.) Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. -- Bp. Hall.
Discouragement (n.) 沮喪，氣餒，洩氣 [U]；使人洩氣的事物 [C]；阻止；勸阻 [U] The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.
Discouragement (n.) That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement. "Discouragements from vice." -- Swift.
Discouragement (n.) The feeling of despair in the face of obstacles [syn: discouragement, disheartenment, dismay].
Discouragement (n.) The expression of opposition and disapproval [ant: encouragement].
Discouragement (n.) The act of discouraging; "the discouragement of petty theft."
Discourager (n.) One who discourages.
The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. -- Sir G. C. Lewis.
Discouraging (a.) 令人沮喪的，使人洩氣的；阻止的；discourage 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞
Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
Discouraging (a.) Depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action; "where never is heard a discouraging word" [ant: encouraging].
Discouraging (a.) Expressing disapproval.
Discoure (v. t.) To discover.
[Obs.]
That none might her discoure. -- Spenser.
Discourse (n.) 演講；講道 [C]；談話，交談，會話 [U]；論文 [C]；【文】語段 [C] The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
Discourse (n.) Conversation; talk.
Discourse (n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
Discourse (n.) Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
Discourse (n.) Dealing; transaction.
Discoursed (imp. & p. p.) of Discourse.
Discoursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discourse.
Discourse (v. i.) 講述，論述To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
Discourse (v. i.) To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
Discourse (v. i.) To relate something; to tell.
Discourse (v. i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.
Discourse (v. t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
Discourse (v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
Discourse (v. t.) To talk to; to confer with.
Discourse (n.) (Formal) [ U ] 對話；交流 Communication in speech or writing.
Discourse (n.) (Formal) [ C ] 演講，演說；論文，文章 A speech or piece of writing about a particular, usually serious, subject.
// A discourse on/ upon the nature of life after death.
Discourser (n.) One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.
In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. -- Milward.
Compare: Discourse
Discourse (n.) (Formal) [ U ] 對話；交流 Communication in speech or writing.
Discourse (n.) (Formal) [ C ] 演講，演說；論文，文章 A speech or piece of writing about a particular, usually serious, subject.
// A discourse on/ upon the nature of life after death.
Compare: Narrator
Narrator (n.) [ C ] (C2) （書或電影中的）敘述者，講述者；旁白 The character who tells you what is happening in a book or film.
Compare: Speaker
Speaker (n.) [ C ] [ C ] (Formal talk) (B1) 發言者；演講者 A person who gives a speech at a public event.
// A good public speaker.
// Please join with me in thanking our guest speaker tonight.
// The Democrats have chosen the Texas state treasurer as the keynote (= most important) speaker at their convention.
Speaker (n.) [ C ] (Language) (B1) 說話者；演講人（說某一特定語言的人） Someone who speaks a particular language.
// A French speaker.
// A fluent Russian speaker.
// Non-English speakers.
Speaker (n.) [ C ] (Electrical) (A2) 揚聲器，喇叭 The part of a radio, television, or computer, or of a piece of electrical equipment for playing recorded sound, through which the sound is played. A speaker can be part of the radio, etc. or be separate from it.
// There's no sound coming out of the right-hand speaker.
Speaker (n.) [ C ] （議會等立法機構的）議長 The person who controls the way in which business is done in an organization which makes laws.
// He served for eight years as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
// [ As form of address ] Mr Speaker, my honourable friend has failed to consider the consequences of his proposal.
Compare: Harangue
Harangue (v.) [ T ] (Disapproving) 長篇大論地演說；斥責 To speak to someone or a group of people, often for a long time, in a forceful and sometimes angry way, especially to persuade them.
// A drunk in the station was haranguing passers-by.
Compare: Haranguer
Haranguer (n.) One who harangues.
Haranguer (n.) A public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech.
Discourser (n.) The writer of a treatise or dissertation.
Philologers and critical discoursers. -- Sir T. Browne.
Compare: Treatise
Treatise (n.) [ C ] 專題論文；專著 A formal piece of writing that considers and examines a particular subject.
// A six-volume treatise on trademark law.
Compare: Dissertation
Dissertation (n.) [ C ] (C1) 專題論文；學位論文 A long piece of writing on a particular subject, especially one that is done in order to receive a degree at college or university.
// Ann did her dissertation on Baudelaire.
Discoursive (a.) Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. -- Milton.
Discoursive (a.) Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.
The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. -- Dryden.
Discoursive (a.) Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man. [R.]
Discoursive (n.) The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason. [R.] --Feltham.
Discoursive (a.) An obsolete word for discursive.
Discursive (a.) Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." -- De Quincey.
The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. -- Hazlitt.
A man rather tacit than discursive. -- Carlyle.
Discursive (a.) Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in
reasoning; argumentative.
Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. -- Milton. -- Dis*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Dis*cur"sive*ness, n.
Discursive (a.) Proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition [syn: dianoetic, discursive].
Discursive (a.) (of e.g. speech and writing) Tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that" [syn: digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling].
Discursive (a.) 散漫的；不得要領的；【哲】推論的 Covering a wide field of subjects; rambling.
Discursive (a.) Proceeding to a conclusion through reason rather than intuition.
Discursive (a.) 涉及討論的 Involving discussion.
// A discursive essay.
Discursive (a.) (Formal) 東拉西扯的，不著邊際的 Talking about or dealing with subjects that are only slightly connected with the main subject for longer than necessary.
// A discursive writer/ speech.
Discourteous (a.) 失禮的，無禮貌的 Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ness, n.
Discourteous (a.) Showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young" [ant: courteous].
Discourteous (a.) Lacking social graces [syn: discourteous, ungracious]
Discourtesy (n.) 無禮，無禮貌，粗鹵的言行 Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.
Be calm
in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth
discourtesy. -- Herbert.
Discourtesy (n.) An expression of lack of respect [syn:
disrespect, discourtesy].
Discourtesy (n.) A manner that is rude and insulting [syn: discourtesy, rudeness] [ant: courtesy, good manners].
Discourtesy (n.) A lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others [syn: discourtesy, offense, offence, offensive activity].
Discourtship (n.) Want of courtesy. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Discous (a.) Disklike; discoid.
Discovenant (v. t.) To dissolve covenant with.
Discovered (imp. & p. p.) of Discover.
Discovering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discover.
Discover
(v. t.) 發現；發覺；找到To uncover. [Obs.]
Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church.
-- Abp. Grindal.
Discover (v. t.) To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown). [Archaic]
Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover The several caskets to this noble prince. -- Shak.
Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. -- Bacon.
We will discover ourselves unto them. -- 1 Sam. xiv. 8.
Discover not a secret to another. -- Prov. xxv. 9.
Discover (v. t.) To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect.
Some to discover islands far away. -- Shak.
Discover (v. t.) To manifest without design; to show.
The youth discovered a taste for sculpture. -- C. J. Smith.
Discover (v. t.) To explore; to examine. [Obs.]
Syn: To disclose; bring out; exhibit; show; manifest; reveal; communicate; impart; tell; espy; find; out; detect. -- To Discover, Invent. We discover what existed before, but remained unknown; we invent by forming combinations which are either entirely new, or which attain their end by means unknown before. Columbus discovered America; Newton discovered the law of gravitation; Whitney invented the cotton gin; Galileo invented the telescope.
Discover (v. i.) To discover or show one's self. [Obs.]
This done, they discover. -- Decker.
Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world. -- Milton.
Discover (v.) 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].
Discover (v.) 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].
Discover (v.) Make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" [syn: discover, find].
Discover (v.) Make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" [syn: discover, find].
Discover (v.) 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].
Discover (v.) 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].
Discover (v.) See for the first time; make a discovery; "Who discovered the North Pole?"
Discover (v.) Identify as in botany or biology, for example [syn: identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name].
Discoverability (n.) The quality of being discoverable. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Discoverable (a.) 發現的；洩露的；顯露的 Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
Discoverable (a.) Capable of being ascertained or found out; "ascertainable facts" [syn: ascertainable, discoverable].
Discoverer (n.) 發現者 [C] One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.
The discoverers and searchers of the land. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Discoverer (n.) A scout; an explorer. -- Shak.
Discoverer (n.) Someone who is the first to think of or make something [syn: inventor, discoverer, artificer].
Discoverer (n.) Someone who is the first to observe something [syn: finder, discoverer, spotter].
Discoverment (n.) 發現 [U] [C] [（+of）] [+that]；被發現的事物 [C] Discovery. [Obs.]
Discovert (a.) 【律】無丈夫的 Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
Discovert (n.) An uncovered place or part. [Obs.]
At
discovert, uncovered. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Discovert. () Not covert, unmarried. The term is applied to a woman
unmarried,
or widow; one not within the bonds of matrimony.