discovered

«discovered» in Mova's judaism dictionary: found something for the first time, or found something… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb past form of discover (discover, discovers, discovered, discovering)

meaning for a pupil

1) Discovered means found something for the first time, or found something that was hidden or not known. tree →

2) Discovered means found out or learned a fact. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and history lessons scientists discovered things like penicillin, new planets and dinosaur fossils; explorers discovered new lands (though people often already lived there). In stories characters discover secrets or treasure. In maths, pupils discover patterns.

examples

• Many writers maintain that only at a later period the principle of position and the zero was discovered. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• And Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him; now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk-tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him. (Prophets 1SA.22.6, JPS 1917) tree →
• Scientists discovered a new kind of frog. tree →
• We discovered a nest in the hedge. tree →
• She discovered that her keys were missing. tree →
• Fleming discovered penicillin by accident. tree →
• They discovered treasure in the old chest. tree →
• I discovered a pattern in the numbers. tree →
• Thank Heaven, I discovered it in time!" tree →

note

Regular verb. Nouns: discovery, discoverer. «Discover» (find something that already existed) differs from «invent» (make something new): you discover gold but invent a machine. Myth: Europeans «discovered» lands where people already lived.

In the corpora

• The mimic octopus, discovered in 1998 off Indonesia, copies the shape and movement of dangerous animals like sea snakes and flatfish.
• The non-stick coating on frying pans is a slippery plastic that food cannot grip; it was discovered by accident in 1938.
• The Chinese discovered that a magnetised needle points north and later used compasses for sailing.
• Pythagoras studied triangles, Archimedes discovered how things float and shouted Eureka, and Eratosthenes measured the size of the Earth with shadows.
• Saying Europeans discovered a land forgets the people who had lived there for thousands of years.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «discovered» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.