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discovery
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[ noun ] the act of discovering something
Synonyms Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)In response , the industry allowed the discovery of the motion_picture as a form of fiction and thus gave the movies the essential form they have had to this day . The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men , a French magician , Georges_Melies , and an American employee of Edison , Edwin_S._Porter . This discovery of Melies was vastly more important than his sometimes dazzling , magician 's tricks produced on film . (Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)Indeed we should say , on_the_contrary , that the accident of our later discovery made no difference whatever to the badness of the animal 's pain , that it would have been every whit as bad whether a chance passer-by happened later to discover the body and feel repugnance or not . |
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[ noun ] (psychology) a productive insight
Synonyms Used in print (Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)The sound discoveries of_this quixotic genius were so diluted by those of fantasy that the prize was never awarded to him . |
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[ noun ] something that is discovered
Used in print (Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)And an additional factor was helping to make women more sexually self-assertive - the comparatively recent discovery of the true depths of female desire and response . (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)His chief discovery was important - the Great_North ( later , the Hudson ) River - but it produced no northwest passage . This must have been Hudson 's blackest discovery . (Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner_von_Heidenstam , the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago . (Jay Williams, The Forger....)Mrs._Monmouth thought_of him as her discovery , and she paid two to three hundred dollars for a painting . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case
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