Recovery vs Discovery - What's the difference?
recovery | discovery |
The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
A return to normal health.
A return to former status.
Renewed growth after a slump (economy).
Something discovered.
(uncountable) The discovering of new things.
(legal, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
(legal, uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
As nouns the difference between recovery and discovery
is that recovery is the act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost while discovery is something discovered.recovery
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(wikipedia recovery)Alternative forms
* recovre (obsolete)Noun
(recoveries)Derived terms
* recovery CD * recovery positiondiscovery
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Noun
- This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.
- The purpose of the voyage was discovery .
- automatic discovery of RSS feeds by a Web browser
- The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery .
- The defense argued that the plaintiff's discovery was inadequate.