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Definition: DISCOVERING |
DISCOVERINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Discover |
Date "DISCOVERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: DISCOVERING |
| English words defined with "DISCOVERING": Anthroposcopy ♦ Calvin ♦ discovery ♦ Fault-finder, find ♦ Lactodensimeter, Logical induction ♦ Melvin Calvin, Metoposcopy ♦ Nauscopy ♦ quantification ♦ Reconnoissance in force, rediscovery ♦ self-discovery, serendipity ♦ uncovering. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DISCOVERING": Achan ♦ backronym ♦ diagnostic aid ♦ META-DENDRAL ♦ network management ♦ Psychosomatic Medicine ♦ rim flying, Ritter, Johann Wilhelm ♦ Sieve and Shears. (references) |
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Lyrics | Touching, discovering you (I Love You Always Forever; performing artist: Donna Lewis) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Baby Einstein: Baby Neptune Discovering Water (2003) Discovering Science (1998) Accident by Design: Creating and Discovering Beauty (1998) Discovering Hamlet (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Evangeline discovering her affianced in the hospital] / Samuel Richards. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Winter pastimes. Trying to put over a little free publicity -- and discovering that ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Agony of a caller discovering that her neighbor has nineteen electroliers in the ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The war in Virginia - Officers and men of Meade's army discovering unburied Union dead on the old battlefield of Bull Run / from a sketch by our special artist, Edwin Forbes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Discovering the bodies of the slain in the Potomac river. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Pierre Auguste Renoir | I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. |
Plutarch | Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty. |
William Hazlitt | Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Another professor showed me a large paper of instructions for discovering plots and conspiracies against the government. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | You may even tread on them, or have your eyes on them for a minute, without discovering them. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Emphasis is being placed on discovering the reasons why some children have more ear infections than other children. (references) | |
Agency charged with discovering which medications are likely to improve the health of patients with Fuchs' dystrophy. (references) | ||
Discovering what triggers apoptosis may eventually lead to therapeutic interventions for ALS and other neurological diseases. (references) | ||
Business | A company discovering oil is immediately offered a 25-year drilling concession. (references) | |
This form of travel is becoming increasingly popular, as visitors are discovering a variety of accommodations and car rental agencies available in the United States and enjoying the increased freedom that comes with this type of travel package. (references) | ||
Saudi Aramco's proven crude oil reserves are reported at 261.5 billion barrels and the natural gas reserves stand at 204 trillion cubic feet. Saudi Armaco's gas exploration operations have been going on for quite some time, and have resulted in discovering a number of potential gas fields in the Kingdom. (references) | ||
Children | Taiwan | Under the law any persons discovering cases of child abuse or neglect must notify the police, social welfare, or child welfare authorities; child welfare specialists must make such notification within 24 hours; and the authorities involved must issue an investigation report within 24 hours. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Honduras | News directors and editors acknowledged their inability to halt the practice, given their own workloads and the difficulty of discovering why a given reporter opted to emphasize one aspect of a story over another, or why a particular name was omitted from a list of suspects to be made public. (references) |
Economic History | Lebanon | Companies may also encounter informal quid pro quo arrangements, discovering that to win a contract they must invest capital in a related project. (references) |
Worker Rights | Qatar | The Government repatriates victims of trafficking upon discovering their presence and does not provide assistance to victims. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | We're discovering that not only do good times not last forever, but sometimes they never even existed in the first place. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Scientists are now discovering how young children develop emotionally and intellectually from their very first days, and how important it is for parents to begin immediately talking, singing, even reading to their infants. |
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| "DISCOVERING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.99% of the time. "DISCOVERING" is used about 597 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 95.99% | 573 | 11,009 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.85% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 597 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DISCOVERING": re-discovering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "DISCOVERING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 发现 (Discover, Discovered, Discoveries, Discovery, find, finding, found). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | invention. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | entdeckend (descrying, detecting, espying). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 발견 (Discoveries, Discovery, find, finding, founding, heuristic). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iscoveringday обнаруживать обнаруживающий. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Habakkuk Chapter 3, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | ExhlqeV eiV swthrian laou sou tou swsai touV cristouV sou ebaleV eiV kefalaV anomwn qanaton exhgeiraV desmouV ewV trachlou diayalma |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Egressus es in salutem populi tui in salutem cum christo tuo percussisti caput de domo impii denudasti fundamentum usque ad collum semper |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thou art gon out in to helthe of thi peple, in to helthe with thi crist; thou hast smyten the heued of the hous of the vnpitouse man, thou hast made nakid the foundement vn to the neckus. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thy anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by uncovering the foundation to the neck. Selah. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of the one on whom your holy oil was put; wounding the head of the family of the evil-doer, uncovering the base even to the neck. Selah. |
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| Language | Habakkuk Chapter 3, Verse 13 |
| Croatian | Iziðe da spasiš narod svoj, da spasiš svog pomazanika; sori vrh kuæe bezbožnikove, ogoli joj temelje do stijene. |
| Danish | Du drager ud til Frelse for dit Folk, ud for at frelse din Salvede. Du knuser den gudløses Hustag, blotter Grunden til Klippen. - Sela. |
| Dutch | Gij toogt uit tot verlossing Uws volks, tot verlossing met Uw Gezalfde; Gij doorwonddet het hoofd van het huis des goddelozen, ontblotende den grond tot den hals toe. Sela. |
| Finnish | Sinä olet lähtenyt auttamaan kansaasi, auttamaan voideltuasi. Sinä murskaat pään jumalattoman huoneesta, paljastat perustukset kaulan tasalle. Sela. |
| French | Tu sors pour délivrer ton peuple, Pour délivrer ton oint; Tu brises le faîte de la maison du méchant, Tu la détruis de fond en comble. Pause. |
| Haitian Creole | Ou soti pou delivre pèp ou a, pou sove wa ou chwazi a. Ou kraze chèf mechan yo. Ou detwi tout moun li yo nèt. |
| Hungarian | Kiszállsz néped szabadítására, fölkented segítségére; szétzúzod a fõt a gonosznak házában; nyakig feltakarod az alapjait. Szela! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Engkau melangkah maju untuk membebaskan umat-Mu dan untuk menyelamatkan raja pilihan-Mu. Kaupukul jatuh pemimpin orang durjana, Kausapu habis semua pengikutnya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa Engkau sudah keluar akan membantu umat-Mu, yang mengupayakan selamat serta dengan Almasih-Mu; bahwa Engkau meremukkan kepala rumah orang fasik, sambil membuka alasnya sampai di bumbungan. -- Selah! |
| Italian | Sei uscito per salvare il tuo popolo, per salvare il tuo consacrato. Hai demolito la cima della casa dell'empio, l'hai scalzata fino alle fondamenta. |
| Maori | I puta koe ki te whakaora i tau iwi, ae ra, ki te whakaora i tau i whakawahi ai; pakaru ana i a koe te upoko i roto o te whare o te hunga kino, takoto kau ana te turanga, a taea noatia te kaki. Hera. |
| Norwegian | Du drar ut til frelse for ditt folk, til frelse for din salvede; du knuser taket på den ugudeliges* hus, du avdekker grunnvollen like til halsen. Sela. # <* kaldeerkongens.> |
| Russian | фЩ ЧЩУФХ БЕЫШ "МС У БУЕОЙС ОБТП"Б фЧПЕЗП, "МС У БУЕОЙС ПНБЪБООПЗП фЧПЕЗП. фЩ УПЛТХЫБЕЫШ ЗМБЧХ ОЕЮЕУФЙЧПЗП "ПНБ, П'ОБЦБС ЕЗП ПФ ПУОПЧБОЙС "П ЧЕТИБ. |
| Swedish | Du drager ut för att frälsa ditt folk, för att bereda frälsning åt din smorde. Du krossar taket på de ogudaktigas hus, du bryter ned huset, från grunden till tinnarna. Sela. |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "DISCOVERING": codiscovering, rediscovering. (additional references) | |
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"DISCOVERING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: discovating, discoveren. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DISCOVERING" (pronounced di'sku"vering) |
| 7 | -s k u" v er i ng | rediscovering. |
| 6 | -k u" v er i ng | covering, recovering, uncovering. |
| 5 | -u" v er i ng | hovering. |
| 4 | -v er i ng | delivering, disfavoring, endeavoring, favoring, flavoring, levering, maneuvering, quivering, savoring, severing, shivering, unwavering, wavering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, recapturing, reconsidering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, unflattering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-i-i-n-o-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: coderiving. | |
-2 letters: codriving, coverings, devoicing, diversion, divorcing, revoicing, ringdoves, scrieving, servicing. | |
-3 letters: codesign, codriven, codrives, cognised, consider, cordings, coreigns, cosigned, cosigner, covering, crinoids, decision, derision, deriving, desiring, devising, discoing, discover, diviners, divorces, drivings, indigoes, invoiced, invoices, ironside, isogenic, negroids, ovicides, recision, recoding, residing, resinoid, revising, revision, ringdove, ringside, scriving, seignior, soricine, vidicons, visioned. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-g-i-i-n-o-r-s-v" | |
+2 letters: codiscovering, rediscovering. | |
+4 letters: overdiscounting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 53 43 4F 56 45 52 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... -.-. --- ...- . .-. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010011 01000011 01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I S C O V E R I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0053 0043 004F 0056 0045 0052 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3843533749563952434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, 중국, китайский, китаец |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, "랑스, французский |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, 독일, немецкий |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, 한국, кореец, корейский |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, 러시아, русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, 영국, английский |
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