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Meaning of 'find' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Find [ n.]
- Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
2 . Find [ v. i.]
- To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.
3 . Find [ v. t.]
- 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.
- To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
- To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
- To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
- To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
- To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.
- To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
- 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.

Meaning of 'find' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . find [ v]
Meaning (1):
- come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
Example in sentence:
  • Did you find your glasses?;
  • I cannot find my gloves!
Meaning (2):
- decide on and make a declaration about
Example in sentence:
  • find someone guilty
Meaning (3):
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
Example in sentence:
  • find the product of two numbers;
  • The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize
Meaning (4):
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
Example in sentence:
  • His movie received a good review;
  • I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions;
  • These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation
Meaning (5):
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
Example in sentence:
  • I feel that he doesn't like me;
  • I find him to be obnoxious;
  • I found the movie rather entertaining
Meaning (6):
- perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
Example in sentence:
  • I found myself in a difficult situation;
  • When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room
Meaning (7):
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
Example in sentence:
  • 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
Meaning (8):
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
Example in sentence:
  • I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here;
  • She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day;
  • We find this idea in Plato
Meaning (9):
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
Example in sentence:
  • I want to see results;
  • The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions;
  • We found Republicans winning the offices;
  • You'll see a lot of cheating in this school
Meaning (10):
- accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
Example in sentence:
  • My son went to Berkeley to find himself
Meaning (11):
- make a discovery, make a new finding
Example in sentence:
  • Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle;
  • Roentgen discovered X-rays
Meaning (12):
- discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
Example in sentence:
  • She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water;
  • We found traces of lead in the paint
Meaning (13):
- get or find back; recover the use of
Example in sentence:
  • She found her voice and replied quickly;
  • She regained control of herself
Meaning (14):
- make a discovery
Example in sentence:
  • She found that he had lied to her;
  • The story is false, so far as I can discover
Meaning (15):
- obtain through effort or management
Example in sentence:
  • She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents;
  • We found the money to send our sons to college
Meaning (16):
- succeed in reaching; arrive at
Example in sentence:
  • The arrow found its mark

Nearby Words:

fin fin-footed fin-toed finable final finale finalities finality finally finance

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