What's the difference between discover and encounter?

Discover


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To uncover.
  • (v. t.) To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown).
  • (v. t.) To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect.
  • (v. t.) To manifest without design; to show.
  • (v. t.) To explore; to examine.
  • (v. i.) To discover or show one's self.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (2) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
  • (3) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
  • (4) In each of these sub-groups, 4 micropapilliform cancers discovered at the occasion of a histopathological test.
  • (5) By measurement and analysis of the changes in carpal angles and joint spaces, carpal instability was discovered in 41 fractures, an incidence of 30.6%.
  • (6) The authors studied 84 randomly selected participants who live in retirement communities to discover factors leading to successful completion of a wellness enhancing program.
  • (7) Size comparison of the newly discovered Msp I fragment with a restriction map of the apolipoprotein A-I gene revealed that most likely the cutting site at the 5'-end of the normally seen 673 bp fragment is lost giving rise to the observed 719 bp Msp I fragment.
  • (8) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
  • (9) Lipoprotein(a) was discovered by chance by Berg in 1963; after twenty years of research, the chemical, physical and metabolic characteristics of Lp(a) are now known.
  • (10) Initially, it was discovered that human hemoglobin contains protein-bound Amadori-products that are increased in diabetic patients with elevated blood glucose levels.
  • (11) A prospective randomized study was carried out to discover the influence of the timing of shoulder physiotherapy after-axillary dissection for breast cancer upon the incidence and duration of lymphatic fluid production and seroma after these operations.
  • (12) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
  • (13) An ice axe, assumed to belong to Irvine, had been discovered in 1933 by the fourth British expedition to the mountain.
  • (14) A deficient G-6PD variant was discovered in 4 males of one family from northwestern Germany.
  • (15) In the both groups, the HPV signs had been more frequently discovered in the younger women.
  • (16) A new protein of feline infectious peritonitis coronavirus (FIPV) was discovered in lysates of [35S]cysteine-labeled infected cells.
  • (17) Nintendo’s share price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has plummeted 17% in one day, apparently due to investors belatedly discovering that the company doesn’t actually make Pokémon Go , the latest mobile gaming phenomenon.
  • (18) A guide, £44pp, is compulsory ( rscn.org.jo ) 2 Discover the Nuweiba coast: Red Sea, Egypt Beach, Nuweiba, Sinai, Egypt.
  • (19) We present a case of carcinoid heart disease and cardiac metastases discovered during a myocardial infarction in a 64 years-old woman who was treated for carcinod of the thymus.
  • (20) This postoperative surveillance was aimed at discovering benign or malignant neoplastic growth within the remaining large bowel.

Encounter


Definition:

  • (adv.) To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth.
  • (v. i.) To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo.
  • (v. t.) A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview.
  • (v. t.) A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (2) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
  • (3) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
  • (4) The following case highlights the diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas encountered in a middle-aged patient who presented with dementia and apathetic hyperthyroidism.
  • (5) The types, frequency, and clinical features of neoplasms encountered in the perinatal period are markedly different from those observed in older children and adolescents.
  • (6) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
  • (7) The most commonly encountered organisms were aerobic bacteria (91%), anaerobes (74%), and fungi (48%).
  • (8) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
  • (9) The authors discuss the results of the diagnosis and treatment of abscesses of the right hepatic lobe which were consequent upon ischemic necrosis; they were encountered after cholecystectomy in 0.15% of cases.
  • (10) The labia minora as a pedicle graft avoids the problems encountered by conventional methods.
  • (11) Frequently, errors are encountered in the comparison of surgical versus clinical staging.
  • (12) But I recall my own first encounter with that ideology, back in the 1990s.
  • (13) Radiologists may encounter patients with fixed dental prostheses that may produce image distortion on MRI scans of the face and jaw.
  • (14) Orthopaedics is one of the clinical areas likely to encounter an increased proportion of such patients.
  • (15) Delirium on emergence from anesthesia was not encountered.
  • (16) Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most frequently encountered bacterial pathogens in patients with chronic pulmonary infections, including cystic fibrosis and diffuse panbronchiolitis.
  • (17) Male patients were more cheerful during encounters with younger assistant nurses while female patients were more cheerful when interacting with older assistant nurses.
  • (18) As travelling is generally increasing, this disease might be encountered more frequently also in Europe.
  • (19) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
  • (20) An integrated approach to the surgical management of diffuse subaortic stenosis has been designed to provide adequate relief of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction whatever the anatomical features encountered at operation.