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Definition of 'find'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) find
to come upon by chance; meet with:
to find a dime in the street.

2.  find
to locate, attain, or obtain by search or effort:
to find an apartment.

3.  find
to recover (something lost).

4.  find
to discover or perceive after consideration:
to find something to be true.

5.  find
to gain or regain the use of:
to find one's tongue.

6.  find
to ascertain by study or calculation.

7.  find
to feel; perceive:
He finds sorrow in the tale.

8.  find
to become aware of (oneself), as being in a certain condition or place.

9.  find
to discover.

10.  find
to encounter (a particular response):
I hope this finds favor with you.

11.  find
to determine after judicial inquiry:
to find a person guilty.

12.  find
to pronounce as an official act (an indictment, verdict, or judgment).

13. (v.i.) find
to determine an issue after judicial inquiry:
The jury found for the plaintiff.

14.  find
find out,

15.  find
to discover, expose, or confirm.

16.  find
to uncover and expose the true nature of (someone):
You will be found out if you lie.

17. (n.) find
an act of finding or discovering.

18.  find
something found, esp. a valuable or gratifying discovery.

Definition of 'find'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) discovery, breakthrough, find
a productive insight

2. (verb) discovery, find, uncovering
the act of discovering something

3. (verb) find, happen, chance, bump, encounter
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"

4. (verb) detect, observe, find, discover, notice
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"

5. (verb) find, regain
come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
"Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!"

6. (verb) determine, find, find out, ascertain
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"

7. (verb) find, feel
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"

8. (verb) witness, find, see
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"

9. (verb) line up, get hold, come up, find
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"

10. (verb) discover, find
make a discovery, make a new finding
"Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"

11. (verb) discover, find
make a discovery
"She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"

12. (verb) find
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"

13. (verb) rule, find
decide on and make a declaration about
"find someone guilty"

14. (verb) receive, get, find, obtain, incur
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"

15. (verb) find
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"

16. (verb) recover, retrieve, find, regain
get or find back; recover the use of
"She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"

17. (verb) find
succeed in reaching; arrive at
"The arrow found its mark"

18. (verb) find oneself, find
accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
"My son went to Berkeley to find himself"

Definition of 'find'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) find
to discover sth you are looking for
Did you find your keys?; I'm hoping to find someone to clean my house.

2.  find
to notice or see unexpectedly
We found a beautiful old church while we were walking around.; I found her sitting on the front porch.

3.  find
to judge in a particular way
I find her rude and ignorant.; How did you find the food at the hotel?

4.  find
find guilty/not guilty
to judge guilty or not guilty in a law court
She was found guilty of murder.

5.  find
to be able to do sth in a particular way
He finds talking about it difficult.; I find swimming really easy.

Definition of 'find'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) find
anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin

2. (verb) find
to meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person

3. (verb) find
to learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel

4. (verb) find
to come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost

5. (verb) find
to discover by sounding; as, to find bottom

6. (verb) find
to discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance

7. (verb) find
to gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means

8. (verb) find
to attain to; to arrive at; to acquire

9. (verb) find
to provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money

10. (verb) find
to arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person

11. (verb) find
to determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff

Translation of 'find'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to come upon or meet with accidentally or after searching Look what I've found!
Afrikaans: gevind	Arabic: يَجِدُ	Bulgarian: намирам
Brazilian: encontrar	Czech: najít	German: finden
Danish: finde	Greek: βρίσκω τυχαία	Spanish: encontrar, hallar
Estonian: leidma	Farsi: پیدا کردن	Finnish: löytää
French: trouver	Hebrew: לִמצוֹא	Hindi: पाना
Croatian: naići na, pronaći	Hungarian: (meg)talál	Indonesian: menemukan
Icelandic: finna	Italian: trovare	Japanese: 見つける
Korean: 우연히 발견하다	Lithuanian: rasti	Latvian: atrast
Malay: menjumpai	Dutch: vinden	Norwegian: finne, oppdage
Polish: znajdować	Persian: پیدا کردن	Pashto: موندل
Portuguese: encontrar	Romanian: a găsi	Russian: находить
Slovak: nájsť	Slovenian: najti	Serbian: pronaći
Swedish: finna, hitta	Thai: พบ (โดยบังเอิญ)	Turkish: bulmak
Taiwanese: 找到	Ukrainian: (з)находити	Urdu: تشاش کے بعد کچھ پانا
Vietnamese: tìm thấy; thấy; bắt được	Chinese: 找到
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