及物动词：

1.（偶然）发现，碰上

2.找到，寻得；找回（失物等）

3.找出；查明；求得

4.（通过努力）发现；发现...处于某种状态

5.感受到；发觉；认为

6.设法获得（或拥有）；鼓起（勇气）

7.（自然地）形成；达到

8.开始发挥...的功能；恢复...的功能

9.裁决；作出（裁决）

10.供给，供应

11.发现...的存在

12.【俚】偷窃

13.【古】触及...的良知

不及物动词：

1.裁决

2.（打猎时）发现猎物

可数名词：

1.发现

2.发现物（尤指有价值或有趣味的东西）

3.被发现有惊人能力的人

词形变化

形容词findable

时态found，finding，finds

单词分析

这些动词均有“发现”之意。

discover普通用词，指发现本来存在，但示被认识的事物、真理或情况。

find普通用词，可指偶然发现，也可指经过寻找后得到或重新获得已失去的东西。强调动作的结果。

detect正式用词，强调经过周密观察或研究而有所获得和发现，尤指发现有意隐藏之物。

ascertain较正式用词，指有意搜寻与发现。

英语解释

come upon, as if by accident; meet with

get something or somebody for a specific purpose

discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of

make a discovery, make a new finding

make a discovery

establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

receive a specified treatment (abstract)

a productive insight

come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost

obtain through effort or management

get or find back; recover the use of

perceive or be contemporaneous with

perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place

decide on and make a declaration about

succeed in reaching; arrive at

come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds

accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

the act of discovering something