発はっ見けん
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, transitive)
1. discovery; detection; finding
I have hardly touched it since I found it.
Kanji used
let out
see
Pitch accent
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Top 1200
Used in vocabulary (12 in total)
breakthrough; great discovery
undiscovered; not yet found; unexplored
Examples (89 in total)
I've made a discovery.
I was surprised at the discovery.
Who discovered America?
I spotted a suspicious man.
The murder weapon still hasn't been found.
This is a surprising discovery.
This discovery will be recorded in history.
Columbus discovered America.
The Stone Age ruins were discovered.
The stolen car was found in the parking lot.
This was discovered from within the ground.
We found him alive.
They found out a new method.
We are pleased with his discovery.
He discovered a new star.
I have hardly touched it since I found it.
This is the room where the body was found.
That discovery was quite accidental.
The police found a body in the river.
He made an important discovery.
I wonder who discovered it.
If you find a mistake, please leave a comment.
Tom found new evidence.
We discovered relics of an ancient civilization.
Jim was caught cheating in the examination.
Oil has been discovered under the North Sea.
To whom do we owe the discovery of penicillin?
It was Marie Curie who discovered radium.
Tell me who discovered air.
By whom was the island discovered?
The police found some blood on the floor.
I discovered a very nice place today.
The discovery of electricity changed our history.
The experiments led to great discoveries.
I discovered ruins on a distant cliff.
You'll probably find it right away, but you are absolutely not to interfere.
The discovery of electricity gave birth to an innumerable number of inventions.
Then, at that moment, I found the mark I had been looking for.
I found six mistakes in as many lines.
Captain Cook discovered those islands.
America was discovered by Columbus in 1492.
The whale was found off the coast of Wakayama.
Rich mineral deposits have been discovered recently in Afghanistan.
He didn't make public what he had discovered there.
We recently discovered an error in your personnel record.
We credit Peary with having discovered the North Pole.
He made a very valuable discovery.
We found a secret passage into the building.
The other day I discovered a book written by my father.
Every time I read this book, I find something new.
He made an important scientific discovery.
It seems he was already dead when he was found.
Immediately, I discover traces and deduce what happened.
By taking your time to look around, you will make various discoveries.
His discovery gave rise to a revolution in transport.
How is the discovery related to the progress of science?
If we are discovered, the advantage of numbers lies with them.
The scientist tried to discover Nature's laws.
Even if the two are found, there is no space to land and take them in.
Was the cave found by the boys?
That's how he discovered the comet.
Cancer can be cured easily if it is found in its first phase.
The discovery of oil enriched the country.
His scientific discovery unlocked many mysteries.
The search party found him lying at the foot of a cliff.
We were taught that Newton discovered the law of gravity.
He found his missing brother at last.
The explorers discovered a skeleton in the cave.
The biologist is proud of his historic discovery.
We learned that Newton discovered the law of gravitation.
We found a secret door into the building.
When I got home, I found your letter waiting for me.
I found a new meaning whenever I read the book.
After walking for a while, I discover a strange object in front of me.
He was found lying unconscious on the kitchen floor.
Their plot to start a fire was discovered by the police.
Police have failed to turn up any new evidence about the murder.
They say that when I was found, I had washed up on a beach near here.
The diamond was discovered by a boy in 1873.
I found the question very easy.
The discovery will have a momentous effect on the treatment of cancer.
The discovery of truth should remain the single aim of science.
The laboratory acquired a fabulous reputation for its historic discovery.
Thanks to these discoveries, man's life span has become twice as long as before.
The value of his discovery was not realized until after his death.
The rescue team succeeded in discovering a survivor who had been under the rubble for several days.
I hope that some scientist will soon discover a cure for AIDS.
Each generation would have to rediscover for itself the truths of the past.
Scientific discoveries don't always make the world a better place.