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(v)
To elicit, evoke, or emphasize (a particular quality).
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(dated, idiomatic, intransitive) To be divulged; to become public.
(transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known.
To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.
(transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
(transitive, idiomatic) To discover, as by asking or investigating.
To discover or find, especially by chance or accident.
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
(transitive) To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
(transitive) To make known; to show (by speech, writing etc.).
(transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
To accidentally encounter a person or situation; to chance upon, happen on or stumble across.
(transitive) To become aware of; to observe.
(transitive, idiomatic) To find (someone or something) by chance.
To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
(transitive) To make a gift of (something).
(transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
(transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
Alternative form of chance upon. [(transitive, idiomatic) To find (someone or something) by chance.]
To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics.
(transitive, occasionally intransitive) To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known; state openly; reveal (something).
(transitive) To represent in words.
(transitive) To lift; to grasp and raise.
(ditransitive) To give a name to.
(intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
(idiomatic) to reveal or indicate, especially unintentionally or against one's wishes
(transitive) To release.
(transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
To find or think of something unexpectedly; to come upon something by accident.
To fit (a lock) with a key.
(transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
(transitive) To remove (something) or make (something) transparent in a scene through the use of a chromakey.
(n)
Something discovered.
The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
(figurative) To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.
(transitive) To find out or observe (someone or something, especially if not easy to see) by spying or looking; to catch sight of; to see; to spot.
A result of research or an investigation.
(transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
(transitive) To inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information.
(transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
An act of detection.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
The action of the verb explore.
(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
To design a new process or mechanism.
(transitive) To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
(adj)
Informative.
(ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
(transitive) To find out where something is located.
(transitive) To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
An act of identification.
(transitive) To adapt into a different form; to give a new style or image to.
(transitive) To confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something.
(transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
(transitive) To discover again; especially something previously lost or forgotten.
(transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
The act or fact of perceiving something with the eyes; eyesight.
(transitive) To follow the trail of.
To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
(transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
Alternative form of turn-up. [Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter.]
Of or relating to comparison.
The act of sensation.
(transitive) To view as valuable.
The act by which something is uncovered.
(intransitive) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
(transitive) To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.
To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
The act of becoming unravelled.
(transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
(intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
To start (an institution or organization).
(by extension) To make or become clear or easily understood; to explain or resolve in order to remove doubt or obscurity.
(transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
(transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
decipherment
(ambitransitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
(transitive) To identify or locate (someone or something) precisely or with great accuracy.
Non-Oxford British standard spelling of realize.
Not covered or protected from the weather, etc.
The showing of a film, typically by projecting it on a screen.
Something unearthed; a discovery.
To uncover or find; to bring out from concealment
Determinative; causal.
Leading to increased exposure.
(transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
An act of disclosure.