verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
amazed to see/find/discover sth
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Visitors are often amazed to discover how little the town has changed.
discover/find a connection
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This is the first official investigation to find a connection.
discover/find oil
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Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938.
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How does a company go about finding oil and getting it from the ground?
discover/find out a secret
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He was afraid that someone would discover his secret.
discover/find out sb’s fate
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He only discovered his sister’s fate after the war.
discover/find out the extent of sth
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We were shocked when we discovered the extent of the fraud.
discover/find the cause
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An investigation has failed to discover the cause of the epidemic.
dismayed to see/discover/learn etc
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Ruth was dismayed to see how thin he had grown.
disturbed to find/see/discover/learn etc
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She was disturbed to learn he had bought a motorbike.
find out/discover sb’s identity
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The police have yet to discover the victim’s identity.
find out/discover/uncover the truth
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She was determined to find out the truth.
find/discover a cure
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Scientists are still hoping to find a cure for the common cold.
identify/discover a gene (= find a particular gene which is responsible for something )
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Scientists have identified a gene which seems to protect Chinese people from some types of cancer.
shock sb to hear/learn/discover etc that
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They had been shocked to hear that the hospital was closing down.
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It shocked me to think how close we had come to being killed.
uncover/discover a plot
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They didn’t suspect that their plot had been uncovered.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
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But he soon discovered how hard it is to rein-in affairs of the heart.
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Research may well be undertaken to discover how effective it is proving.
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The problem is to discover how these familiar zones are bounded and how they are crossed.
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While Kinsey discovered how many people were doing what, Masters and Johnson explained what happened when they did it.
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In his second hundred days, he will have to discover how to turn his ideas into lasting achievements.
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He sees that Shakespeare discovered how he might use analogy and metaphor as themost acute representation of a mind engaged in thought.
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There was no need to rush about trying to discover how it was done.
later
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The invoice for the painting described it as being by Munter, but was later discovered to be a forgery.
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She escapes and later discovers that her attacker is a suspected serial killer.
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I later discovered the truth of the Goring matter from Masko.
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Janie was surprised when she discovered later that all food did not arrive in paste form.
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Soon after hitting the water, I saw a Hurricane above me which I discovered later was Barber.
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It was later discovered that Granato actually picked up assist No. 200 Friday night.
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And, as I came to discover later , a genuine feel for a story.
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One can imagine his excitement when he later discovered the similarities in progression between the hexagrams and his own binary arithmetic.
recently
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This has galleries on two levels, the lower one for the recently discovered paintings, the upper one for temporary exhibitions.
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A key chemical messenger in this process is leptin, a recently discovered hormone made by fat cells.
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The company also shared in new output from the Angus field and has an interest in the recently discovered Fife field.
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A second problem emerged with the need to construct lightweight vessels to contain the recently discovered gas helium.
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Three bodies were recently discovered at Simrudu police station, close to where the 15 villagers were murdered.
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Morrison said Apple had recently discovered flawed chips on the computers' main circuit boards could make them freeze up.
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I only recently discovered her connection with this place, and that was by accident.
soon
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But Oppenheimer soon discovered that physicist I. I. Rabi and others balked at militarization.
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Any computer user soon discovers that sometimes hardware, and more often software, is extremely fallible.
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As the prince soon discovers , even this severe sentence is insufficient to suppress the quarrel.
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Brandt's secret method of preparation was soon discovered .
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But Joe soon discovered that naval officials in Rangoon had no record of his Kunming telegram.
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I soon discovered she had her dates right and she was premature.
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It was soon discovered , by conversation, that it was a bloodless battle.
■ NOUN
body
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He discovered the body , and we called the police.
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Horrified customs authorities discovered the bodies .
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It was in the third to be opened that they discovered Pierre Fontaine's body .
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On patrol, game warden Jay Little Hawk discovers the bodies of a herd of mutilated deer.
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A policeman on patrol discovered the bodies at a remote beauty spot near Charterhouse, Somerset.
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March 26, authorities discovered 39 bodies in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
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At around two that afternoon one Sandinista driver discovered the dead bodies of three contras near the bridge.
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Police discovered the first body at this house in Nelson Street in the Jericho area of Oxford.
cause
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We have already discovered some of the causes of many kinds of cancer, which have been mentioned earlier in this book.
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By the 1970s, researchers discovered that a major cause of childhood blindness in Third World countries was vitamin A deficiency.
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Relying on tablets for the relief of pain without trying to discover its cause can be positively dangerous.
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We too had a humming in the dead of night for about two years until we discovered the cause .
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His glee made Bowring nervous about discovering its cause .
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Castle, this 1959 thriller casts Price as a mad scientist who discovers the biological cause of fear in human beings.
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In their anomalous behaviour electric arcs seemed to defy Ohm's Law and she discovered the cause of this.
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What is more important is to discover the causes of delay, without which general conclusions are likely to be unhelpful.
identity
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We say that he discovers his identity as he learns to distinguish between his body and the rest of the world.
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But we should be clear that we are redressing a difference, not discovering an identity .
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Later, when he discovered the identity of the child, then thirteen, he wrote to apologize.
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As a soldier under the Whites there was a price on his head; some one would soon discover his true identity .
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Countless disciples have begun to discover their new identity as Christians through the same process.
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How on earth had Goebbels discovered the identity of the one remaining escapee?
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The plaintiff may want, even more than damages, to discover the identity of the source.
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As a consequence, a parent is unlikely to discover the identity of an informant if that person has requested confidentiality.
truth
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My admiration for him was in proportion to the effort that had been necessary to discover the truth .
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The full inquests will be heard in May at the earliest, with families hoping at last to discover the truth .
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But United Nations officials called for caution, saying a government investigation was necessary to discover the truth .
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The root of materialism is probably a firm commitment to empirical scientific method as the only reliable way to discover truth .
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How much would it hurt him, she was wondering, when he finally discovered the truth about his fiancée?
■ VERB
try
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Another important branch of philosophy relevant here is metaphysics, which tries to discover the basic structure of reality.
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Social scientists have spent decades trying to discover why some corporate chief executives make more money than others.
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Looking about at the crowd of faces, she tried to discover who was watching her.
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Ralph had no idea what she meant, but he listened as though trying to discover his essential human worth.
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Each time there's a local sighting I usually find an excuse to go out and try to discover it myself.
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We tried to discover and define how that person was different from us.
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And that's the problem facing conservationists who are trying to discover where the dormice are.
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So I tried to discover if there was a traditional protection against shipworm attack.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Australian researchers have discovered a substance in coffee that acts like morphine.
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Fire officers are still trying to discover the cause of the fire.
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I began to learn the guitar, and discovered that I was pretty good at it.
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Police discovered 500 pounds of dynamite in the house.
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She discovered the job wasn't as easy as it might seem.
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She used to go to Hollywood parties, hoping to be discovered.
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The planet Pluto was discovered in 1930.
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The two girls were inseparable until Veronica discovered boys.
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The Vikings may have discovered America long before Columbus.
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They never discovered who the murderer was.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I have at last discovered the true secret to quitting smoking.
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It discovered that social problems-issues of motivation, attitude, and expectations-were a greater obstacle than lack of programs.
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Okay, a scientist reports the measurement of the temperature of a new discovered planet to be minus point eight degrees.
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Only after users discovered the flaw and began discussing it on the Internet did Intel admit the problem.
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Soon after hitting the water, I saw a Hurricane above me which I discovered later was Barber.
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The basic information they needed had been discovered more than two centuries before.