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Discover vs Workout - What's the difference?

discover | workout |

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 workout is

an exercise session; a period of physical exercise.

discover

English

Alternative forms

* discovre (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
  • To expose, uncover.
  • :
  • (chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
  • :
  • (archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
  • :
  • *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.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (expose something previously covered) expose, reveal, uncover * (find something for the first time) come across, find

    Antonyms

    * (expose something previously covered) conceal, cover, cover up, hide

    Derived terms

    * discovery * discovered attack * discovered check

    See also

    * invent * detect * find * stumble upon

    Anagrams

    * * 1000 English basic words

    workout

    English

    (wikipedia workout)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An exercise session; a period of physical exercise.
  • * 2008 , Jim Montgomery, Mo Chambers, Mastering Swimming , page 157?
    • The following guidelines for smart weekly scheduling can simplify this piece of the planning: Swim three or four workouts each week.
  • A schedule or program of specific exercises, especially one intended to achieve a particular goal.
  • * 2007 , Peter Twist, Complete Conditioning for Hockey? , page 170
    • If athletes do too much too soon, they will be stiff and sore 24 to 48 hours after a new workout .
  • * 2010', Mark Alvisi (quote from a reader), "Mark of a Champion", ''Muscular Development?'' ' 47 (1): 350
    • I read in another magazine about a workout that can put a whole inch on your arms in just one day!
  • (by extension) Any activity that requires much physical or mental effort, or produces strain.
  • * 2001 , Jan Karon, A Common Life: The Wedding Story , page 41?
    • Cynthia's phone got a workout , as well. In approximately three days since the news had hit the street, a total of five bridal showers had been booked, not to mention a luncheon at Esther Cunningham's and tea at Olivia Harper's.

    Related terms

    * work out

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