Discover vs Identifier - What's the difference?
discover | identifier |
(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.
Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.
* {{quote-book, year=2001, title=The Career Guide to the Horse Industry, author=Theodore A. Landers
, passage=The Identifier personally inspects each horse in each race by verifying the lip tattoo, body color, head and leg markings, scars, and chestnut (night eyes).
* {{quote-book, year=2004, title=Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track, author=John McEvoy
, passage=The foal papers are documents recording the horse's registration; no horse can start in any race unless his papers are in the hands of the track's identifier .
Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
* {{quote-book, year=2008, author=Ted Dunstone, Neil Yager, title=Biometric System and Data Analysis
, passage=Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as as 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric identifier .}}
A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
(programming, operating systems) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
(databases) A primary key.
As a proper noun discover
is (us) , a brand of credit card.As a noun identifier is
someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.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 wordsidentifier
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(en noun)citation
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