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Definition: Rediscover |
RediscoverVerb1. Discover again; "I rediscovered the books that I enjoyed as a child". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rediscover" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
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Books |
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Through ROAR - Rediscover Our American Roots -- students "read" rock art to learn the history of past peoples.Credit: UNknown. | ROAR on Saturday tour, kicked off the Multi-Cultural Tourism Program to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and National Indian Recognition Week. Program leaders of the Rediscover Our American Roots discuss the summit activities at the Bumble Bee Ranch.Credit: Unknown. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Auguste Rodin | I invent nothing, I rediscover. |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | To put the bitterness and divisions of the recent past behind us and to rediscover those shared ideals that lie at the heart of our strength and unity as a great and as a free people. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Rediscover" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.41% of the time. "Rediscover" is used about 73 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 (infinitive) | 90.41% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.59% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 73 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
music rediscover | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rediscover"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 再发现. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | redécouvrir, redécouvrez, redécouvres. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wiederentdecken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανακαλύπτω εκ νέου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | újra megtalál (to rediscover), újra feltalál (to rediscover, to reinvent), újra felfedez (to rediscover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ritrovare (discover, feel at ease, find, find oneself, meet, recover, retrieval, see one's way), riscoprire, riscontare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 재발견하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | geddyn magh reesht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ediscoverray regãsi (retrieve), redescoperi. (various references) снова найти, открыть (open, open up, unbar, unblock, unblocking). (various references) återupptäcka. (various references) yeniden keşfetmek, yeniden bulmak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rediscover": rediscovered, rediscoveries, rediscovering, rediscovers, rediscovery. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rediscover": prediscoveries, prediscovery. (additional references) | |
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"Rediscover" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: redissolved. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rediscover" (pronounced rēdusku"ver) |
| 5 | -s k u" v er | discover. |
| 4 | -k u" v er | cover, recover, uncover, undercover. |
| 3 | -u" v er | Glover, hover, lover, Shover. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: discoverer. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-o-r-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: coderives, codrivers, divorcees, divorcers, overdries, overrides. | |
-2 letters: coderive, codriver, codrives, coverers, decriers, derivers, descrier, devoices, discover, divorcee, divorcer, divorces, override, overside, recovers, redrives, rescored, revoiced, revoices, scrieved, serviced, servicer. | |
-3 letters: cirrose, codrive, corders, corries, corvees, covered, coverer, crosier, decrier, decries, deicers, deriver, derives, derries, desirer, devices, deviser, devisor, devoice, devoirs, diocese, diverse, divorce, drivers, drovers, erosive, oreides, orrices, recodes, records, recover, redries, redrive, redrove, reivers, reredos, rescore, resider, reverso, revised, reviser, revisor, revoice, rievers, scrieve, scrived, serried, service, visored, voicers, voiders. | |
-4 letters: ceders, cerise, cervid, ciders, coders, corder, corers, corrie, corvee, corves, cosied, cosier, covers, credos, creeds, criers, crores, decors, deicer, deices, derive, derris, desire, device, devise, devoir, dicers, divers, dories, dorser, driers, driver, drives, drover, droves, eiders, erodes, orders, oreide, orrice, overed, recode, record, redoes, reived, reiver, reives, rerise, rerose, reside, revers, revise, ricers, riders, riever, rivers, rosier, rovers, scored, scorer, screed, scried, scrive, served, server, sieved, sirree, soever, soiree, verier, versed, verser, videos, vireos, viseed, voiced, voicer, voices, voider. | |
-5 letters: ceder, cedes, cedis, cered, ceres, ceros, cider, cires, coder, codes, coeds, coirs, cords, cored, corer, cores, corse, cosie, coved, cover, coves, credo, creed, cried, crier, cries, crore, decor, decos, deers, deice, dicer, dices, direr, disco, diver, dives, doers, dorrs, doser, doves, drees, drier, dries, drive, drove, eider, eidos, erode, erose, erred, order, orris, osier, overs, redes, redos, reeds, reive, resid, resod, riced, ricer, rices, rider, rides, riser, rived, river, rives, rosed, roved, rover, roves, score, scree, scrod, seder, sered, serer, serve, servo, sever, sieve, sired, siree, siver, sodic, sorer, veers, verse, verso, viced, vices, video, viers, vireo, vires, vised, visor, voces, voice, voids. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-o-r-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: discoverers, overdirects, rediscovers, rediscovery. | |
+2 letters: codiscoverer, overserviced, prediscovery, rediscovered. | |
+3 letters: codiscoverers, overexercised, rediscoveries, rediscovering, reproductives. | |
+4 letters: overprescribed, oversubscribed, prediscoveries, videorecorders. | |
+5 letters: overdecorations. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e d i s c o v e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0064 0069 0073 0063 006F 0076 0065 0072 |
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