find

Plural: finds

Noun

• a productive insight
• the act of discovering something
• Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
• The act of finding.

Verb

Verb Forms: found, finding, finds

• To discover or locate something unexpectedly or after a search.
• come upon, as if by accident; meet with
  • "We find this idea in Plato"
• discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
• come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
  • "Did you find your glasses?"
  • "I cannot find my gloves!"
• establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
  • "find the product of two numbers"
• come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
  • "I find him to be obnoxious"
• perceive or be contemporaneous with
• get something or somebody for a specific purpose
• make a discovery, make a new finding
• make a discovery
• obtain through effort or management
• decide on and make a declaration about
  • "find someone guilty"
• receive a specified treatment (abstract)
  • "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"
• perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
• get or find back; recover the use of
• succeed in reaching; arrive at
• accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
  • "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
• To locate
• To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
• To locate
• To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
• To locate
• To locate on behalf of another.
• To discover by study or experiment directed to an object or end.
• To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
• To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
• To meet with; to receive.
• To point out.
• To decide that, to conclude that, to form the opinion that, to consider.
• To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
• To supply; to furnish.
• To provide for
• To determine or judge.
• To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
• To discover game.

Examples

• He always tried to find unexpected bonus squares for his words.
• He finds his nephew in money.
• He kept finding faults with my work.
• I find your argument unsatisfactory.
• I found it strange {sleeping - to sleep} in your house last night.
• I found my car keys. They were under the couch.
• I found this shell on the beach.
• I found you a new place to live
• I went looking for you in the bed we share, but tonight I found you not there.
• Looks like he found a new vehicle for himself!
• Peters finds Jinkins, who is running down the left wing.
• She arrived home to find that the house had gone up in flames.
• The jury finds for the defendant.
• The proposal found little support within the government.
• The researchers found the two variables to be strongly correlated.
• to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person
• to find food for workmen
• to find leisure; to find means
• Water is found to be a compound substance.

Synonyms

ascertain, breakthrough, bump, chance, come up, detect, determine, discover, discovery, encounter, feel, find oneself, find out, get, get hold, happen, incur, line up, notice, observe, obtain, receive, recover, regain, retrieve, rule, see, uncovering, witness, catch

Antonyms

lose

Related Words

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