Recovered vs Discovered - What's the difference?
recovered | discovered |
(recover)
To get back, regain (a physical thing lost etc.).
* Bible, 1 Sam. xxx. 18
* , chapter=22
, title= To return to, resume (a given state of mind or body).
(obsolete) To reach (a place), arrive at.
* Fuller
* Shakespeare
* Hales
(archaic) To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
* Shakespeare
*, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.233-4:
* Bible, 2. Tim. ii. 26
(archaic) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.
* Rogers
(archaic) To get better from; to get over.
* Cowley
* De Foe
To get better, regain one's health.
To regain one's composure, balance etc.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=
, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
(legal) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit.
(legal) To gain as compensation or reparation.
(legal) To gain by legal process.
(label) Recovery.
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*:It was neuer in my thoughte saide la?celot to withholde the quene from my lord Arthur / but in soo moche she shold haue ben dede for my sake / me semeth it was my parte to saue her lyf and putte her from that daunger tyl better recouer myghte come / & now I thanke god sayd sir Launcelot that the pope hath made her pees
(label) A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out.
To cover again.
(roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.
(discover)
(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.
As verbs the difference between recovered and discovered
is that recovered is (recover) while discovered is (discover).recovered
English
Verb
(head)recover
English
Alternative forms
* recovre (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) recoverer and (etyl) recovrer, from (etyl) recuperare.Verb
(en verb)- David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
- With much ado the Christians recovered to Antioch.
- The forest is not three leagues off; / If we recover that, we're sure enough.
- Except he could recover one of the Cities of Refuge he was to die.
- The wine in my bottle will recover him.
- Cnelius a physiciangave him a clyster, by which he was speedily recovered .
- that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him
- to recover lost time
- Even good men have many failings and lapses to lament and recover .
- I do hope to recover my late hurt.
- when I had recovered a little my first surprise
The China Governess, chapter=19
- The plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
- to recover''' damages in trespass; to '''recover debt and costs in a suit at law
- to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery
- to recover judgement against a defendant
Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
.Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Walter Scott)
Anagrams
*discovered
English
Verb
(head)discover
English
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.}}
