conceive vs discover

conceive and discover both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
conceive	No	No	Yes	No
discover	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, discover is a hyponym of conceive; that is, discover is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than conceive:

Other hyponyms of conceive include design, preconceive, find.

conceive (verb)	discover (verb)
become pregnant; undergo conception	get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
judge or regard; look upon; judge	identify as in botany or biology, for example
have the idea for	make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
	make a discovery, make a new finding
	see for the first time; make a discovery
	discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
	find unexpectedly