different between discover vs evince

English

Alternative forms

• discovre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English discoveren, from Old French descovrir, from Late Latin discoper?re < discooperi?, discooper?re, from Latin dis- + cooperi?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s?k?v?/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /d?s?k?v?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s?k?v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: dis?cov?er

Verb

discover (third-person singular simple present discovers, present participle discovering, simple past and past participle discovered)

1. To find or learn something for the first time.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
3. (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.

4. (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.

5. (law, transitive) To question (a person) as part of discovery in a lawsuit.
6. (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Adversity

     Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

7. (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).

   • they seyde the same, and were aggreed that Sir Clegis, Sir Claryon, and Sir Clement the noble, that they sholde dyscover the woodys, bothe the dalys and the downys.

8. (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.
   • 1871, Charles John Smith}}, Synonyms Discriminated

     The youth discovered a taste for sculpture.

Synonyms

• (expose something previously covered): expose, reveal, uncover
• (find something for the first time): come across, find

Antonyms

• (expose something previously covered): conceal, cover, cover up, hide

Derived terms

• discovery
• discovered attack
• discovered check

Translations

See also

• invent
• detect
• find
• stumble upon

Anagrams

• codrives, discovre, divorces, divorcés

English

Etymology

From French évincer, from Latin ?vinc? (“conquer entirely, prevail over; prove exhaustively”), from ?- (short form of ex- (intensive prefix)) + vinc? (“conquer”). Doublet of evict.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?v?ns/, /??v?ns/, /??v?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns

Verb

evince (third-person singular simple present evinces, present participle evincing, simple past and past participle evinced)

1. (transitive) To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, London: J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, Physiological Considerations, p. 32

     For You will find in the Progress of our Dispute, that I had some reason to question the very way of Probation imploy'd both by Peripateticks and Chymists, to evince the being and number of the Elements.

   • 1815, Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior of Africa, Cassell: 1893, Chapter VI, [1]

     ‘That unless all the people of Kasson would embrace the Mohammedan religion, and evince their conversion by saying eleven public prayers, he, the king of Foota-Torra, could not possibly stand neuter in the present contest, but would certainly join his arms to those of Kajaaga.’

   • 1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, 1928, pp. 89-90, [2]

     As the game proceeded it became evident that Porgy's luck was with him; he was the most consistent winner, and Sportin' Life was bearing most of the burden. But the mulatto was too good a gambler to evince any discomfiture.

   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, New York: Vintage, 1999, p. 169,

     When Mrs C. described this to me the next day she shuddered all over, but also evinced, in her manner and choice of words, an unmistakable relish.

   • 1992, Adam Thorpe, Ulverton, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994, p. 239,

     Bare reportage cannot convey the deep hatred sometimes evinced between men through the simplest address.

Derived terms

• evincible

Related terms

• evict
• eviction
• convince

Translations

Anagrams

• Venice

Italian

Verb

evince

1. third-person singular present indicative of evincere

Anagrams

• invece

Latin

Verb

?vince

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?vinc?