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
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