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# discovered

«discovered» in Mova's school 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discovered/#m1)

2) Discovered means found out or learned a fact. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discovered/#m2)

### 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

- Scientists discovered a new kind of frog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discovered/#x1)
- We discovered a nest in the hedge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discovered/#x2)
- She discovered that her keys were missing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discovered/#x3)
- Fleming discovered penicillin by accident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discovered/#x4)
- They discovered treasure in the old chest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discovered/#x5)
- I discovered a pattern in the numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discovered/#x6)
- Thank Heaven, I discovered it in time!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discovered/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver/17/)
- [The non-stick coating on frying pans is a slippery plastic that food cannot grip; it was discovered by accident in 1938.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/14/)
- [The Chinese discovered that a magnetised needle points north and later used compasses for sailing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/13/)
- [Pythagoras studied triangles, Archimedes discovered how things float and shouted Eureka, and Eratosthenes measured the size of the Earth with shadows.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/17/)
- [Saying Europeans discovered a land forgets the people who had lived there for thousands of years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «discovered» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/discovered/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.