0 past simple and past participle of discover --
1 to find information, a place, or an object, especially for the first time: --
Los Angeles is full of young actors working as waiters, hoping to be discovered by a movie agent.
[ + obj + -ing verb ] The boss discovered him stealing money from the cash register.
[ + to infinitive ] Following a routine check-up, Mrs Mason was discovered to have heart disease.
[ + (that) ] She discovered (that) her husband was having an affair.
[ + question word ] Scientists have discovered how to predict an earthquake.
We searched all morning for the missing papers and finally discovered them in a drawer.
Who discovered America?
Individual exceptions may be due not to some as yet unknown elements of usage which have not yet been discovered but rather to dialectal differences.
On his arrival he discovered the reports to be wildly exaggerated.
We quickly discovered that decisions in this regard were often variable and unstable.
If income remains significant, we either have not discovered the correct mechanism, or income may not be a simple indicator.
The problems discovered with this panel system are twofold.
A few amphoroid kraters have also been discovered in domestic contexts which do not indicate a high status.
In particular, our results further explain why the number of subtrees exhibits the phenomenon discovered by the latter authors.
It is he who discovered that the course of a projectile is not in a straight line but rather a curve.
