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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