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      "Derived from the verb discover, on the pattern of the pair recover, recovery. Displaced native Old English onfundennes."
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        "name": "Noun",
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            "mean": "Something discovered.\nThis latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease."
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            "mean": "(uncountable) The discovering of new things.\nThe purpose of the voyage was discovery.\nAutomatic discovery of RSS feeds by a Web browser.\n1589, Richard Hakluyt, \u201cIohn Cabots Patent\u201d, in The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation,\u00a0, London:    George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, page 509:The letters patents of king Henry the \u017feuenth granted vnto Iohn Cabot and his three \u017fonnes, Lewis, Sebastian, and Sancius, for the discouerie of new and vnknowen lands."
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            "mean": "(countable, archaic) An act of uncovering or revealing something; a revelation.\n1822, Alain Ren\u00e9 Le Sage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane:Don Huberto actually fell in love with his kinswoman, and had presumption enough to declare his passion    The lady being a woman of discretion, instead of making a discovery, which might have been attended with melancholy consequences, reprimanded her relation with gentleness"
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            "mean": "(law, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.\nThe prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery."
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            "mean": "(law, uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.\nThe defense argued that the plaintiff's discovery was inadequate."
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            "mean": "(chess) A discovered attack.\n1999, Jeremy Silman, The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions Into Chess Mastery, 2nd edition, Los Angeles, C.A.: Siles Press, \u2192ISBN, page 189:1700: \"If I play f4, he can check me with ...Qd4, but then he has to move his Queen because he can easily lose it to a Bishop discovery on b5. He could also check me on c5 when his Queen might be safer. I could just move out of the way, though, and continue my attack.\""
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