Discover vs Out - 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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, 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.
Away from home or one's usual place, or not indoors.
Away from; at a distance.
Away from the inside or the centre.
Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.
To the end; completely.
* Bible, Psalms iv. 23
(cricket, baseball) Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).
Away from the inside.
(colloquial) outside
A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
(baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc.
(cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game such as hit wicket, wherein the bowler has hit the batsman's wicket with the ball.
(poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
(dated) A trip out; an outing.
* Charles Dickens, Bleak House
(mostly, in plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
(printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
To eject; to expel.
* Selden
* Heylin
To reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual.
To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
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To reveal (a secret).
To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Of a young lady, having entered society and available to be courted.
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(cricket, baseball) Of a batter or batsman, having caused an out called on himself while batting under various rules of the game.
Openly acknowledging one's homosexuality.
Discover is a synonym of out.
As a proper noun discover
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Alternative forms
* discovre (obsolete)Verb
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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
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(wikipedia out)Adverb
(en adverb)- Let's eat out tonight
- Leave a message with my secretary if I'm out when you call.
- Keep out !
- The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat.
- Switch the lights out .
- Put the fire out .
- I hadn't finished. Hear me out.
- Deceitful men shall not live out half their days.
- The place was all decked out for the holidays.
Synonyms
* (not at home) awayAntonyms
* (not at home) inDerived terms
(terms derived from out) * all out * bottle out * bowl out * bug out * camp out * chicken out * chill out * churn out * coffeed out * come out of the closet * come out * coming out of one's ears * crank out * down and out * eat one's heart out * figure out * flesh out * foul out * freeze out * geek out * get out * go in one ear and out the other * hang out * hold out * inside out * iron out * kick out * kit out * knock out * lock out * one eighty out * opt out * out of fashion * out of it * out of joint * out of luck * out of one's mind * out of place * out of pocket * out of proportion * out of sorts * out of stock * out of the blue * out of the ordinary * out of the question * out of the way * out of the woods * out of tune * out of wedlock * out of work * out of * out there * out to lunch * out to, out to get someone * out-of-bounds * out-of-print * pig out * put out feelers * put out * rub out * suss out * turn out * wash out * way out * weed out * wipe out * zonk out * zoom outPreposition
(English prepositions)- He threw it out the door.
- It's raining out .
- It's cold out .
Synonyms
* (away from the inside) throughAntonyms
* (away from the inside) inNoun
(en noun)- They wrote the law to give those organizations an out .
- "Us London lawyers don't often get an out ; and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know."
Verb
(en verb)- a king outed from his country
- The French have been outed of their holds.
AIG '''OutsCounterparties]" (online news article), ''[[w:Forbes, Forbes.com] .
- A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design.
- Truth will out .
Adjective
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- "Pray, is she out', or is she not? I am puzzled. She dined at the Parsonage, with the rest of you, which seemed like being '''''out'' ; and yet she says so little, that I can hardly suppose she ''is ."
- Did you hear? Their newest CD is out !
- It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business.