discover

How to sign: make a discovery, make a new finding
"Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle";

Similiar / Same: find

Categories: conceive, conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate

discover

How to sign: make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
"The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring;

Similiar / Same: disclose, let on, divulge, reveal, expose, give away, let out, impart, bring out, break

Categories: tell

Within this category: betray, blackwash, blow, come out of the closet, confide, leak, muckrake, out, reveal, spill the beans, spring

discover

How to sign: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
"She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint";

Similiar / Same: detect, observe, notice, find

Categories: sight

Within this category: find out, instantiate, see, sense, trace

discover

How to sign: find unexpectedly
"the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake";

Similiar / Same: fall upon, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain, strike

Categories: find, regain