Invent vs. Discover

Inventverb

To design a new process or mechanism.

Inventverb

To create something fictional for a particular purpose.

Inventverb

(obsolete) To come upon; to find; to discover.

Inventverb

To come or light upon; to meet; to find.

Inventverb

To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; - applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.

Inventverb

To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; - in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.

Inventverb

come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort;

Inventverb

make up something artificial or untrue

Discoververb

To find or learn something for the first time.

Discoververb

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

Discoververb

To expose, uncover.

Discoververb

To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.

Discoververb

To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.

Discoververb

To reconnoitre, explore (an area).

Discoververb

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

Discoververb

To uncover.

Discoververb

To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown).

Discoververb

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.

Discoververb

To manifest without design; to show.

Discoververb

To explore; to examine.

Discoververb

To discover or show one's self.

Discoververb

discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of;

Discoververb

make a discovery, make a new finding;

Discoververb

get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally;

Discoververb

make a discovery;

Discoververb

find unexpectedly;

Discoververb

make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret;

Discoververb

see for the first time; make a discovery;

Discoververb

identify as in botany or biology, for example