Definitions for find
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. discovery, breakthrough, findnoun

   a productive insight

2. discovery, find, uncoveringverb

   the act of discovering something

3. find, happen, chance, bump, encounterverb

   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. detect, observe, find, discover, noticeverb

   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. find, regainverb

   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. determine, find, find out, ascertainverb

   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. find, feelverb

   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. witness, find, seeverb

   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. line up, get hold, come up, findverb

   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. discover, findverb

    make a discovery, make a new finding

    "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"

11. discover, findverb

    make a discovery

    "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"

12. findverb

    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. rule, findverb

    decide on and make a declaration about

    "find someone guilty"

14. receive, get, find, obtain, incurverb

    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. findverb

    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. recover, retrieve, find, regainverb

    get or find back; recover the use of

    "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"

17. findverb

    succeed in reaching; arrive at

    "The arrow found its mark"

18. find oneself, findverb

    accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

    "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. findnoun

   Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.

2. findnoun

   The act of finding.

3. findverb

   To encounter, to discover something searched for.

4. findverb

   To point out.

   He kept finding faults with my work.

5. findverb

   To decide that, to form the opinion that.

   I find your argument unsatisfactory.

6. findverb

   To determine or judge.

   The jury finds for the defendant.

7. Etymology: From findan, from finþanan (compare Dutch vinden, German finden, Swedish finna), a secondary verb from pontHo- (compare Old Irish étain 'I find', áitt 'place', Latin pons 'bridge', Ancient Greek póntos 'sea', Old Armenian հուն, Avestan panta (gen. paþō), Sanskrit pánthās 'path').

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To FINDverb

   Etymology: findan, Saxon; vinden, Dutch.

   1. To obtain by searching or seeking.

   Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find. Matt. vii. 7.

   Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy houshold stuff? Gen. xxxi. 37.

   A bird that flies about,
   And beats itself against the cage,
   Finding at last no passage out,
   It sits and sings. Abraham Cowley.

   2. To obtain something lost.

   When he hath found his sheep, he layeth it on his shoulders rejoicing. Luke xv. 5.

   In my school days, when I had lost one shaft,
   I shot his fellow of the self-same flight
   The self-same way, with more advised watch,
   To find the other forth; by vent’ring both,
   I oft found both. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

   3. To meet with; to fall upon.

   There watchful at the gate they find
   Suspicion with her eyes behind. Robert Dodsley, Miscell.

   In woods and forests thou art found. Abraham Cowley.

   The bad must miss, the good unsought shall find. Alexander Pope.

   4. To know by experience.

   How oft will he
   Of thy chang’d faith complain!
   And his fortunes find to be
   So airy and so vain! Abraham Cowley.

   The torrid zone is now found habitable. Abraham Cowley.

   5. To discover by study.

   Physicians
   With sharpen’d sight some remedies may find. Dryden.

   Thy maid! ah, find some nobler theme,
   Whereon thy doubts to place. Abraham Cowley.

   6. To discover what is hidden.

   A curse on him who found the oar. Abraham Cowley.

   7. To hit on by chance; to perceive by accident.

   They build on sands, which if unmov’d they find,
   ’Tis but because there was no wind. Abraham Cowley.

   8. To gain by any mental endeavour.

   If we for happiness could leisure find,
   And wand’ring time into a method bind,
   We should not then the great mens favour need. Abraham Cowley.

   We oft review, each finding like a friend
   Something to blame, and something to commend. Alexander Pope.

   9. To remark; to observe.

   Beauty or wit in all I find. Abraham Cowley.

   10. To detect; to deprehend; to catch.

   When first found in a lie, talk to him of it as a strange monstrous matter, and so shame him out of it. John Locke.

   11. To reach; to attain.

   They are glad when they can find the grave. Job iii. 22.

   He did the utmost bounds of knowledge find,
   Yet found them not so large as was his mind. Abraham Cowley.

   12. To meet.

   A clear conscience and heroick mind,
   In ills their business and their glory find. Abraham Cowley.

   13. To settle; to fix any thing in one’s own opinion.

   Some men
   The marks of old and catholick would find. Abraham Cowley.

   14. To determine by judicial verdict.

   His peers, upon this evidence,
   Have found him guilty of high treason. William Shakespeare, Hen. VIII.

   15. To supply; to furnish: as, he finds me in money and in victuals.16. [In law.] To approve: as, to find a bill.17. To Find himself. To be; to fare with regard to ease or pain, health or sickness.

   Pray, sir, how d’ye find yourself? says the doctor. Roger L'Estrange.

   18. To Find out. To unriddle; to solve.

   The finding out of parables is a wearisome labour of the mind. Ecclus. xiii. 26.

   19. To Find out. To discover something hidden.

   Can’st thou by searching find out God? Can’st thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? Job ii. 7.

   There are agents in nature able to make the particles of bodies stick together by very strong attractions, and it is the business of experimental philosophy to find them out. Newton.

   What hinders then, but that thou find her out,
   And hurry her away by manly force? Joseph Addison, Cato.

   20. To Find out. To obtain the knowledge of.

   The principal part of painting is to find out and thoroughly to understand what nature has made most beautiful. Dryden.

   21. To Find out. To invent; to excogitate.

   A man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and to find out every device which shall be put to him. 2 Chron. ii. 14.

   22. The particle out is added often without any other use than that it adds some force or emphasis to the verb.

   While she proudly march’d about,
   Greater conquests to find out,
   She beat out Susan by the by. Abraham Cowley.

   It is agreeable to compare the face of a great man with the character, and to try if we can find out in his looks and features either the haughty, cruel, or merciful temper. Addison.

   He was afraid of being insulted with Greek; for which reason he desired a friend to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Findverb

   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

2. Findverb

   to learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel

3. Findverb

   to come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost

4. Findverb

   to discover by sounding; as, to find bottom

5. Findverb

   to discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance

6. Findverb

   to gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means

7. Findverb

   to attain to; to arrive at; to acquire

8. Findverb

   to provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money

9. Findverb

   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

10. Findverb

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

11. Findnoun

    anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin

12. Etymology: [AS. findan; akin to D. vinden, OS. & OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna, Goth. finan; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr. pi`ptein to fall, Skr. pat to fall, fly, E. petition.]

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1. find

   In Unix-like and some other operating systems, find is a command-line utility that searches through one or more directory trees of a file system, locates files based on some user-specified criteria and applies a user-specified action on each matched file. The possible search criteria include a pattern to match against the file name or a time range to match against the modification time or access time of the file. By default, find returns a list of all files below the current working directory. The related locate programs use a database of indexed files obtained through find to provide a faster method of searching the entire filesystem for files by name.

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1. Find

   fīnd, v.t. to come upon or meet with: to discover or arrive at: to perceive: to experience: to supply: to determine after judicial inquiry:—pr.p. fīnd′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. found.—ns. Find′er; Find′-fault (Shak.), one who finds fault with another; Find′ing, act of one who finds: that which is found: a judicial verdict: (pl.) the appliances which some workmen have to supply, esp. of shoemakers—everything save leather.—Find one in (something), to supply one with something; Find one's account (in anything), to find satisfactory profit or advantage in it; Find one's legs, to rise, or to recover the use of one's legs, as after being drunk, &c.; Find one's self, to feel, as regards health, happiness, &c.; Find out, to discover. [A.S. findan; Ger. finden.]

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1. find

   To know intuitively the location.

   They did find her coat she had last winter, she had put it in the bag in the attic for the next season.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 8, 2020  

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1. FIND

   What does FIND stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the FIND acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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1. • Change
   • Conceive
   • Conclude
   • Get
   • Learn
   • Mature
   • Perceive
   • Pronounce
   • Reach
   • Sight

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'find' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #210

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'find' in Written Corpus Frequency: #219

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'find' in Verbs Frequency: #22

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1. NFID

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of find in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of find in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of find in a Sentence

1. Richard Aboulafia:

   You need to find enough full-fare premium passengers to justify the aircraft. Good luck with that.

2. Jennifer Tunnard:

   I disagree with the court keeping bail at $1 million, I find that excessive, she didn't kill anyone.

3. Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

   When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

4. Rich Wong:

   Everyone is trying to find a way to play in the tech economy, it's inevitable.

5. Mykhailo Podolyak:

   Ru-propaganda lives in a fictional world : [ Ukrainian ] woman and her 12-year-old child were' assigned' responsible for blowing up the car of Darya Dugina. Surprisingly, they did not find the' Estonian visa' on the spot.

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