(n.) The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.
(n.) A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets.
(n.) Finding out or ascertaining something previously unknown or unrecognized; as, Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood.
(n.) That which is discovered; a thing found out, or for the first time ascertained or recognized; as, the properties of the magnet were an important discovery.
(n.) Exploration; examination.
Example Sentences:
(1) The recent discovery of nuclear retinoic acid receptors provides a basis for understanding how retinoic acid acts at the genetic level.
(2) Since the discovery of peptides in hypophysis and brain, several classes of these peptides have been tested on their putative antidepressive properties.
(3) The choice of drugs during anesthesia and per-operative resuscitation are discussed in this article together with particular situations such as pheochromocytoma in pregnancy or the per-operative discovery of a previously unrecognized pheochromocytoma.
(4) The concept of almost total breast biopsy has great merit in the discovery of occult carcinoma.
(5) After the gunfight the marines made the shocking discovery of bodies of 58 men and 14 women in a room, some piled on top of each other.
(6) Discovery of this vectorhost-parasite system in the Americas, and the localization of promastigote flagellates (leptomonads) in the hindgut of the vector, should assist in clarifying interpretative problems associated with infection of wild-caught flies in studies on leishmaniasis in the Americas and elsewhere.
(7) Markram's papers on synaptic plasticity and the microcircuitry of the neural cortex were enough to earn him a full professorship at the age of 40, but his discoveries left him restless and dissatisfied.
(8) The semistructured interview included questions concerning events preceding infants' death and the situation at the discovery of the death.
(9) The prolonged survival after discovery of malignancy in such families may be explained in part by diploidy of the lesions.
(10) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(11) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
(12) The FBI’s decision to reopen their criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s secret email server just 11 days before the election shows how serious this discovery must be,” the RNC chairman, Reince Priebus, said in a statement.
(13) The recently acquired knowledge of the importance of cell-mediated immunity in many illnesses and the discovery of a variety of substances that can restore certain cell-mediated immune functions has served to focus the attention of physicians on this area of immunity.
(14) Last year's physics Nobel was for the Higgs discovery and was only given to theorists, not experimentalists.
(15) But the study’s co-author Mark Hay, a professor from the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the discovery here was that greater carbon concentrations led to “some algae producing more potent chemicals that suppress or kill corals more rapidly”, in some cases in just weeks.
(16) Information about olfactory neuron microtubules may be applicable to neurons in general (e.g., the discovery that axons contain microtubules of uniform polarity was first made in the olfactory neuron) or to microtubules in other eukaryotic cells.
(17) These are some of the finest Neolithic monuments in the world, and in 1999 they were given World Heritage status by Unesco, an act that led directly to the discovery of the Ness of Brodgar.
(18) However, panniculitis leading to the discovery of chronic pancreatitis with a surgically treatable ductal abnormality has not been previously reported.
(19) A number of professionals have projected a rebound in the frequency of mental retardation associated with PKU since the discovery of MPKU.
(20) Based in London, Perrette oversees and sets the strategy for all of Discovery’s business outside the United States.
Epiphany
Definition:
(n.) An appearance, or a becoming manifest.
(n.) A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Warner Bros His first epiphany came during a high school version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel in the high school auditorium before 1,500 people.
(2) If it felt like an epiphany for Benn, it was more like a Sermon on the Mount to his Labour colleagues.
(3) In the film, Gould says that he knows he cannot beat death; indeed, his acceptance of its approach is at the root of his epiphany.
(4) For Demirtaş, the Diyarbakir killings were an epiphany of the kind that hundreds of thousands of Kurds have experienced over the past 40 years – generally in response to a government atrocity.
(5) I don't know of any recent astronauts who've had an epiphany based on space travel."
(6) But as my adult-onset acne continued to get worse and worse – and more resistant to medication – I had an epiphany.
(7) Talking with Hebden as he chats about making music, or the feeling in the room as he DJed that final night of Plastic People, you notice how he describes his life as a series of little epiphanies.
(8) Osborne gets lost In an interview with the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Kath Viner, George Osborne admitted to an unusual epiphany on getting to know the north.
(9) Late, late has been their epiphany, but still too late for this year.
(10) This professional epiphany was mirrored by a challenge to his family life when his son Kai (Markram has five children from two marriages) was diagnosed with Asperger's, an autism spectrum disorder.
(11) The capacity to inspire epiphany in others is a life-changing gift.
(12) His explanation for the leap is that he had an epiphany when he was in his last year of Stanford, when one of his younger brothers came out as gay.
(13) When I was 56 we went to New England on holiday and I had an epiphany.
(14) I had at least two life epiphanies during Where Dreams Go to Die, which contains maybe my favourite lyric of all time: “I regret the day your ugly carcass caught my eye”.
(15) Were it not for the PKK, which Öcalan launched with the murder of two Turkish soldiers in 1984, it is possible that the forced assimilation of the Kurds into mainstream Turkish society would have advanced much further, and the epiphanies of Demirtaş and others may not have happened.
(16) Making commitments now risks overcompensation for households and adding significantly to the cost of household assistance.” Tony Abbott's GST 'epiphany' has been a long time in the works Read more The New South Wales Coalition government led the charge for increasing the GST to help fund the shortfall in health funding, while the Victorian and Queensland Labor governments suggested the Medicare levy as a fairer alternative .
(17) Intriguingly, it was not the prospect of Lebedev, bearing a vast bouquet of P45s, that caused alarm in the blogosphere, but a handful of Liddle's hundreds of columns, such as a grotesque ad feminam attack in the Spectator which was, for many of us, an epiphany, the first moment we had ever felt warmly towards Harriet Harman.
(18) "When I saw there was a whole system of science based on genetics, of serious work in the evolutionary pattern, that was an epiphany.
(19) But no sign yet that the Davos set is worrying unduly: by Epiphany – 6 January – FTSE 100 chief executives had already earned more than a year of the average wage .
(20) T he moment that changed James Watt’s life – his beer epiphany, which he recalls with surprising (or well-rehearsed) precision – did not arrive in the most auspicious venue: “It was a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale from the States, bought at Tesco’s in Stonehaven, to wash down some fish and chips.