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DISCOVERY

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discovery substantiv

1. descoperire, găsire, aflare; constatare; stabilire.

2. dezvăluire, revelare.

3. deznodământ (într-o piesă etc.).

4. (jur.) prezentare / expunere a actelor şi faptelor pe care se sprijină cineva în justiţie.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Things were in this state when the grand discovery was made, and Jo watched Laurie that night as she had never done before.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I do not conceive that this discovery gave me much pain then.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“Your discoveries seem to have left the business more obscure that it was before,” said I.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After dinner, when we had all gathered round the fire in the study—Mrs. Harker having gone to bed—we discussed the attempts and discoveries of the day.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I have been making discoveries and forming plans, just like yourself, and I must tell them while the idea is fresh.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I wish the discovery may do them any good.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

By degrees I made a discovery of still greater moment.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Well, squire,” said Dr. Livesey, “I don't put much faith in your discoveries, as a general thing; but I will say this, John Silver suits me.”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

I felt I could speak, and I answered—"My name is Jane Elliott." Anxious as ever to avoid discovery, I had before resolved to assume an alias.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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