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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discovery |
| Synonyms: | acquisition, asset, bargain, boast, bonanza, catch, gem, good buy, jewel, one in a million, pride, treasure, treasure trove |
| Notes: | a find (noun) is a discovery or productive insight - find (verb) means to come upon or discover something; fined means punished by the imposition of a penalty |
| Antonyms: | loss |
| Main Entry: | find |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | achieve, win |
| Synonyms: | acquire, attain, be one's lot, earn, fall to the lot, gain, get, meet, meet with, obtain, procure |
| Notes: | a find (noun) is a discovery or productive insight - find (verb) means to come upon or discover something; fined means punished by the imposition of a penalty |
| Antonyms: | fail, fall short, forfeit, lose |
| Main Entry: | assume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe, take for granted |
| Synonyms: | accept, ascertain, be afraid, be inclined to think, conclude, conjecture, consider, count upon, deduce, deem, divine, estimate, expect, fall for, fancy, find, gather, get the idea, guess, have a hunch, have sneaking suspicion, hypothesize, imagine, infer, judge, posit, postulate, predicate, presume, presuppose, speculate, suppose, surmise, suspect, theorize, think, understand |
| Notes: | assume means 'suppose to be the case, without proof; take for granted'; presume means 'suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability; take for granted that something exists or is the case' |
| Antonyms: | doubt, not believe |
| Main Entry: | breakthrough |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advance, progress |
| Synonyms: | boost, development, discovery, find, finding, gain, hike, improvement, increase, invention, leap, progress, quantum leap, rise, step forward |
| Antonyms: | step back, step backward |
| Main Entry: | come at |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reach, attain |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, discover, feel for, find, grasp, succeed, touch, win |
| Main Entry: | come up with |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suggest, create |
| Synonyms: | advance, bring forth, compose, detect, discover, find, furnish, invent, offer, originate, present, produce, propose, provide, recommend, stumble upon, submit, uncover |
| Main Entry: | deliver |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discharge, give forth |
| Synonyms: | accouch, bear, birth, born, dispense, feed, find, hand, hand over, produce, provide, release, supply, turn over |
| Main Entry: | detect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discover |
| Synonyms: | ascertain, catch, descry, dig up, disclose, distinguish, encounter, espy, expose, find, hit on, hit upon, identify, meet, meet with, nose out, note, notice, observe, recognize, reveal, scent, see, smell out, smoke out, spot, stumble on, track down, tumble into, turn up, uncover, unmask, wise up to |
| Antonyms: | miss, not see, overlook, pass by |
| Main Entry: | detection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discovery |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, disclosure, espial, exposure, exposé, ferreting out, find, revelation, strike, tracking down, uncovering, unearthing, unmasking |
| Antonyms: | failure, miss, mistake |
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