Creation vs Discovered - What's the difference?
creation | discovered |
(countable) Something created such as an invention or artwork.
(uncountable) The act of creating something.
(uncountable) All which exists.
(discover)
(obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
To expose, uncover.
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(chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
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(archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
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*Shakespeare
*:Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover / The several caskets to this noble prince.
*Francis Bacon
*:Prosperity doth best discover' vice; but adversity doth best ' discover virtue.
(obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
*, Bk.V, ch.ix:
*:they seyde the same, and were aggreed that Sir Clegis, Sir Claryon, and Sir Clement the noble, that they sholde dyscover the woodys, bothe the dalys and the downys.
To find or learn something for the first time.
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, title= (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.
*C. J. Smith
*:The youth discovered a taste for sculpture.
*1806 , Alexander Hunter, Culina Famulatrix Medicinæ , p.125:
*:The English Cooks keep all their Spices in separate boxes, but the French Cooks make a spicey mixture that does not discover a predominancy of any one of the spices over the others.
As a noun creation
is creation.As a verb discovered is
(discover).creation
English
Noun
- I think the manufacturer was so ashamed of its creation that it didn't put its name on it!
- The restructure resulted in the creation of a number of shared services.
- Let us pray to Christ, the King of all creation .
Derived terms
* cocreation, co-creationAnagrams
* English words suffixed with -tiondiscovered
English
Verb
(head)discover
English
Alternative forms
* discovre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.}}