Skip to main content

to discover

a) (in terms of forensic and criminal investigations): not to be confused with, and the exact opposite of, to invent.

b) (in terms of technological/medical/scientific progress): to use methods that have been used in the past (on issues that are no longer relevant in one's own society) to tackle modern issues
a) If you are a serial murderer you can be telling me your limo is triple parked all you want; you are not the brightest lightbulb in the chandelier. Forensic science is there to discover exactly what the 5 journalistic w's and 1h are in your specific case.

b) When you discover something, you are most likely using a long-ago invented, tried, and abandoned solution (to a past problem) to tackle modern issues; that being said, why can't we use methods such as corpse incineration, that have been tried during the Middle Ages on the Black Death, on the current Ebola epidemic?
by Sexydimma August 26, 2014
mugGet the to discover mug.

Discovery Of America

Many Many years ago Noah was sailing around on his ark with all the animals. After years at sea the ark was becoming something of a tip, there was shit everywhere. So one day Noah desided to compress all the fosilised animal shit together and throw it over board. Thousands of years later Christopher Columbus was on a fishing trip and discovered it!
Christopher Columbus: WOW! Would you look at that great piece of shit. I think I will discover this and place a rare breed of people on it, loan them my language until the develop one of their own and call them Yanks. This is the discovery of America.
by Beanie Boy March 3, 2008
mugGet the Discovery Of America mug.

Discovery Term

A place where unmotivated students and unmotivated teachers are put in a classroom for the last 2 weeks of the school.
"Last two weeks of school and I'm so bored. It must be discovery terms."
mugGet the Discovery Term mug.

Discovery Channelling

The process of recieving inspiration from animals while having sex. Having sex like animals usually on nature programs on the Discovery Channel. The way animals have sex (no shame) rough, animal-like, frenzied sex.

Orginated in Bloodhound Gang songs.
Man, we were really Discovery channelling last night!

Hey baby, I would like to do some Discovery channelling with you tonight.
by chachee90 December 2, 2010
mugGet the Discovery Channelling mug.

discovery friday

When you need to burn some time and you come up with random bullshit.
STANDUP:
I did discovery friday.
by Tracy-Roux December 11, 2015
mugGet the discovery friday mug.

Share this definition

Sign in to vote

We'll email you a link to sign in instantly.

Or

Check your email

We sent a link to

Open your email