Findnoun 1: a productive insight [syn:
discovery,
breakthrough]
2: the act of discovering something [syn:
discovery,
uncovering]
verb 1: 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" [syn:
happen,
chance,
bump,
encounter]
2: 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" [syn:
detect,
observe,
discover,
notice]
3: come upon after searching; find the location of something
that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I
cannot find my gloves!" [syn:
regain] [ant:
lose]
4: 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" [syn:
determine,
find out,
ascertain]
5: 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" [syn:
feel]
6: perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans
winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in
this school"; "I want to see results"; "The 1960 saw the
rebellion of the younger generation against established
traditions"; "I want to see results" [syn:
witness,
see]
7: 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" [syn:
line up,
get hold,
come up]
8: make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered
X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary
particle" [syn:
discover]
9: make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The
story is false, so far as I can discover" [syn:
discover]
10: 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"
11: decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone
guilty" [syn:
rule]
12: 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" [syn:
receive,
get,
obtain,
incur]
13: 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"
14: get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control
of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
[syn:
recover,
retrieve,
regain]
15: succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrrow found its mark"
16: accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and
situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
[syn:
find oneself]
[also:
found]
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