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Rediscover

Definition: Rediscover

Rediscover

Verb

1. 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)

Commercial Usage: Rediscover

DomainTitle

Books

  • Dialogue: Rediscover the Transforming Power of Conversation (reference)

  • Exposing Spiritual Abuse: How to Rediscover God's Love When the Church Has Let You Down (reference)

  • Making Peace With Your Past: Rediscover the Passion to Live Your Highest Destiny [ABRIDGED] (reference)

  • Renovations: A Father and Son Rebuild a House and Rediscover Each Other (reference)

  • There We Stood, Here We Stand : Eleven Lutherans Rediscover Their Catholic Roots (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Rediscover

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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.

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Familiar Quotations: Rediscover

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Speeches: Rediscover

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Richard Nixon

1969-1974To 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.

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Usage Frequency: Rediscover

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)90.41%6641,290
Lexical Verb (base form)9.59%7133,076
                    Total100.00%73N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rediscover

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

music rediscover

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Rediscover

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

   

Romanian

  

regãsi (retrieve), redescoperi. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

снова найти, открыть (open, open up, unbar, unblock, unblocking). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

återupptäcka. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yeniden keşfetmek, yeniden bulmak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Rediscover

Derivations

Words beginning with "rediscover": rediscovered, rediscoveries, rediscovering, rediscovers, rediscovery. (additional references)

Words containing "rediscover": prediscoveries, prediscovery. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Rediscover" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: redissolved. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Rediscover"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "rediscover" (pronounced rēdusku"ver)
5-s k u" v erdiscover.
4-k u" v ercover, recover, uncover, undercover.
3-u" v erGlover, hover, lover, Shover.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Rediscover

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Rediscover


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 64 69 73 63 6F 76 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    -..    ..    ...    -.-.    ---    ...-    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#100 &#105 &#115 &#99 &#111 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0064 0069 0073 0063 006F 0076 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52717075856981887184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Quotations: Speeches
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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