Discover vs Evidence - What's the difference?
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(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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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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.
Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=
, volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(w)
, title= (legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=April 15, work=The Scotsman
, title= One who bears witness.
* Sir (Walter Scott)
To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
Discover is a related term of evidence.
As a proper noun discover
is (us) , a brand of credit card.As a noun evidence is
obviousness, clearness.discover
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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.}}
Synonyms
* (expose something previously covered) expose, reveal, uncover * (find something for the first time) come across, findAntonyms
* (expose something previously covered) conceal, cover, cover up, hideDerived terms
* discovery * discovered attack * discovered checkSee also
* invent * detect * find * stumble uponAnagrams
* * 1000 English basic wordsevidence
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(wikipedia evidence)Noun
(en-noun)Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence , for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer, passage=For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year. }}
- infamous and perjured evidences
Derived terms
* anecdotal evidence * circumstantial evidence * evidence-based medicine * hearsay evidenceDerived terms
* after-discovered evidence * clear and convincing evidence * demurrer to evidence * preponderance of evidence, preponderance of the evidence * self-evidenceVerb
(evidenc)- She was furious, as evidenced by her slamming the door.