Discover vs Explorer - What's the difference?
discover | explorer |
(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.
One who explores something
A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
(computing, graphical user interface) A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.
* 2007 , Mark Minasi, John Paul Mueller, Mastering Windows Vista Business: Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise
As a verb discover
is to remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).As a proper noun Discover
is Discover Card, a brand of credit card.As a noun explorer is
one who explores something.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 wordsexplorer
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(wikipedia explorer)Noun
(en noun)- For example, Vista includes a document explorer that shows just the documents in a location without considering all of the other files that might appear there.