Descubrir in english
Discover
pronunciation: dɪskʌvɜr part of speech: verb
pronunciation: dɪskʌvɜr part of speech: verb
In gestures
descubrir = dig up ; discover ; find out ; unlock ; spy ; uncover ; unearth ; find ; come to + light ; unveil ; ferret out ; unfurl ; lay + bare ; tease + Nombre + apart ; bare ; suss (out) ; sniff out ; find + Nombre + out.
Example: The list of changed headings is almost literally endless if you have the patience to dig them all up.Example: This, in turn, depends upon users and user interests, and it may be necessary to conduct a survey to discover or update the profile of user interests.Example: For example, a person can consult the system holdings files to find out whether a library in the network owns a copy of the document.Example: NTIS is a key partner in unlocking the world's technology.Example: She spied Asadorian in earnest converse with McSpadden.Example: It requires an extraordinarily astute librarian to uncover this shortcoming at the interview stage.Example: Librarians also provide some assistance with that most familiar and awkward-to-handle enquiry from library users concerning the possible value of Grandpa's old Bible or other old book unearthed in the attic during a clear-out.Example: His trial came up in July 1892 and by then the city accountant had found that over $9,000 had been misappropriated.Example: A further disquieting feature which came to light was the number of people who did not approach staff for help.Example: Here is an institution which knows, neither rank nor wealth within its walls, which stops the ignorant peer or the ignorant monarch at its threshold, and declines to unveil to him its treasures, or to waste time upon him, and yet welcomes the workman according to his knowledge or thirst for knowledge.Example: As a rule analysts are left on their own to ferret out useful and appropriate areas to be investigated.Example: This volume is in fact three books shuffled together under one luscious cover, unfurling as a fantasia on technique that explores, among other things, Mau's riffs on modernism.Example: The aim of this article is to lay bare the causes of this state of affairs.Example: The author and his colleagues embarked on a series of studies to tease apart hereditary and environmental factors thought to be implicated in schizophrenia.Example: The judge ruled that a magazine that published a photograph of a woman baring her breasts at a pig roast did not intrude on her privacy.Example: He was incredulous when he sussed that the noises came from bona-fide gibbons.Example: The researchers involved say that dogs have an uncanny ability to sniff out lung and breast cancer in its early stages of development.Example: It is a great relief to have found him out -- with a spy like him among us -- we would not last long against Colonel Kurzen.more:
» descubrir Algo = make + a discovery .
Example: Fairchild said that all you have to do is scrape an organ with the back of a scalpel to make a discovery.» descubrir el pastel = blow + the gaff ; spill + the beans ; let + the cat out of the bag ; let on ; blab .
Example: It was not idealism but plain fear, plus a peasant's nose for security, which led to Vladimir's decision to blow the gaff. Example: Native speakers of English use idioms such as 'put your foot down' and 'spill the beans' to label events that are not described literally by the words that make up the idioms. Example: Manic-depressives who are aware of their mental illness usually take great pains not to let the cat out of the bag, fearing it will damage their career and poison relationships. Example: The officials have raised the alert level to yellow but I have heard that behind the scenes they are far more worried than they are letting on. Example: Wark demonstrated that being the first to blab pays off when it's time for sentencing.» descubrir la pólvora = reinvent + the wheel .
Example: This article calls for all concerned to stop reinventing the wheel of automation and to work together to improve it.» descubrir lo descubierto = reinvent + the wheel .
Example: This article calls for all concerned to stop reinventing the wheel of automation and to work together to improve it.» descubrir petróleo = strike + oil .
Example: Israel has struck oil again, this time off the Tel Aviv coast.» descubrir una mina de oro = strike + gold ; hit + the jackpot ; strike + oil ; hit + pay dirt ; strike + pay dirt .
Example: That was a Gold Rush term: the money a miner needed for grub until he struck gold. Example: Many gamblers dream about the day that they will hit the jackpot. Example: There's no doubt socialite Melania Brown struck oil when she landed Donald Brown, one of the richest men in America. Example: She was is having a rough day and felt she hit pay dirt when she found a phone in a trash bin after hers was stolen. Example: She thought she'd struck pay dirt when a wealthy couple hired her to find their missing daughter, who they suspected has started using heroin -- who better to find a junkie than an ex-junkie?.» descubrir un filón = strike + a (rich) vein ; strike + oil .
Example: Milan have struck a rich vein of form of late, and will look to continue the same in this match. Example: There's no doubt socialite Melania Brown struck oil when she landed Donald Brown, one of the richest men in America.» descubrir un secreto = spill + the beans ; blow + the gaff ; let + the cat out of the bag ; blab .
Example: Native speakers of English use idioms such as 'put your foot down' and 'spill the beans' to label events that are not described literally by the words that make up the idioms. Example: It was not idealism but plain fear, plus a peasant's nose for security, which led to Vladimir's decision to blow the gaff. Example: Manic-depressives who are aware of their mental illness usually take great pains not to let the cat out of the bag, fearing it will damage their career and poison relationships. Example: Wark demonstrated that being the first to blab pays off when it's time for sentencing.» por descubrir = undiscovered .
Example: This incompleteness of search and retrieval therefore makes possible, and plausible, the existence of undiscovered public knowledge.» posibilidad de descubrir = discoverability .
Example: This project is testing the viability of harvesting metadata, and exposing it with a search interface to enhance resource discoverability for materials that represent cultural heritage.» sin descubrir = undiscovered .
Example: This incompleteness of search and retrieval therefore makes possible, and plausible, the existence of undiscovered public knowledge.» tratar de descubrir = sound + Nombre + out .
Example: My sister visits Minsmere from time to time, I'll sound her out about the best places to go and information on what you can see.» volver a descubrir = rediscover .
Example: The Victorians had unprecedented access to a wealth of manuscript sources, which helped them rediscover and reinterpret their cultural history.descubrirse = take + Posesivo + hat off.
Example: He stood up and almost took his hat off before he remembered his cowlick.