find
/fˈaɪnd/
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Definitions
Noun
a productive insight
Noun
the act of discovering something
Verb
come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
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discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"
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come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!"
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establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
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come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn''t like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining"
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perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You''ll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960''s saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"
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get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"
Verb
make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
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make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"
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obtain through effort or management; "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college"
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decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty"
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receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
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perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; "I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room"
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get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
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succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark"
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accept and make use of one''s personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
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
More General Terms
acquire
act
arrive at
attain
brainstorm
brainwave
change
comprehend
conceive
conceptualise
conceptualize
conclude
deed
discover
experience
find out
gain
gestate
get
get a line
get wind
get word
go through
grow
hear
hit
human action
human activity
insight
judge
label
learn
make
maturate
mature
perceive
pick up
pronounce
reach
reason
reason out
see
sight
spy
More Specific Terms
access
admeasure
attain
breakthrough
catch
catch out
catching
chance on
chance upon
come across
come upon
count
detection
determination
discover
enumerate
espial
fall upon
feel
ferret
ferret out
find out
finding
gauge
happen upon
instantiate
light upon
locate
number
numerate
rake up
rectify
redetermine
rediscovery
refract
rout out
rout up
see
self-discovery
sense
sequence
situate
spotting
spying
strike
take
trace
tracing
translate
turn up