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Discover vs. Visa — What's the Difference?

Discover vs. Visa — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Discover and Visa

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Discover

To notice or learn, especially by making an effort
Got home and discovered that the furnace wasn't working.

Visa

An official authorization appended to a passport, permitting entry into and travel within a particular country or region subject to certain conditions, such as length of time and purpose of the visit.

Discover

To be the first, or the first of one's group or kind, to find, learn of, or observe.

Visa

To endorse or ratify (a passport).

Discover

To learn about for the first time in one's experience
Discovered a new restaurant on the west side.
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Visa

To give a visa to.

Discover

To learn something about
Discovered him to be an impostor.
Discovered the brake to be defective.

Visa

A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.
I came on a six-month tourist visa.

Discover

To identify (a person) as a potentially prominent performer
A movie star who was discovered in a drugstore by a producer.

Visa

To endorse (a passport, etc.).

Discover

(Archaic) To reveal or expose.

Visa

See Vis.

Discover

To find or learn something for the first time.
Turning the corner, I discovered a lovely little shop. I discovered that they sold widgets.

Visa

To indorse, after examination, with the word visé, as a passport; to visé.

Discover

To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).

Visa

An endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it

Discover

To expose, uncover.
The gust of wind discovered a bone in the sand.

Visa

Provide (a passport) with a visa

Discover

To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
This move discovers an attack on a vital pawn.

Visa

Approve officially;
The list of speakers must be visaed

Discover

To question (a person) as part of discovery in a lawsuit.

Discover

To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
I discovered my plans to the rest of the team.

Discover

To reconnoitre, explore (an area).

Discover

(obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

Discover

To uncover.
Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church.

Discover

To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown).
Go, draw aside the curtains, and discoverThe several caskets to this noble prince.
Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
We will discover ourselves unto them.
Discover not a secret to another.

Discover

To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect.
Some to discover islands far away.

Discover

To manifest without design; to show.
The youth discovered a taste for sculpture.

Discover

To explore; to examine.

Discover

To discover or show one's self.
This done, they discover.
Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world.

Discover

Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of;
She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water
We found traces of lead in the paint

Discover

Make a discovery, make a new finding;
Roentgen discovered X-rays
Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle

Discover

Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally;
I learned that she has two grown-up children
I see that you have been promoted

Discover

Make a discovery;
She found that he had lied to her
The story is false, so far as I can discover

Discover

Find unexpectedly;
The archeologists chanced upon an old tomb
She struck a goldmine
The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake

Discover

Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret;
The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold
The actress won't reveal how old she is
Bring out the truth
He broke the news to her

Discover

See for the first time; make a discovery;
Who discovered the North Pole?

Discover

Identify as in botany or biology, for example

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