Discover vs Acknowledge - What's the difference?
discover | acknowledge |
(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.
To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a god.
:* I acknowledge my transgressions. - ''Psalm 51:3 .
:* ''For ends generally acknowledged to be good. -
To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.
:* In all thy ways acknowledge Him. - ''Proverbs 3:6
:* By my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee. - , III-v
To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor.
:* ''They his gifts acknowledged none. -
To notify receipt, as of a letter.
To own as genuine or valid; to assent to, as a legal instrument, to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form; as, to acknowledge a deed.
As verbs the difference between discover and acknowledge
is that discover is to remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.) while acknowledge is to admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a god.As a proper noun Discover
is Discover Card, a brand of credit card.discover
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Alternative forms
* discovre (obsolete)Verb
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