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What's The Definition Of Find?
[n] the act of discovering something
[n] a productive insight [v] accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself" [v] 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" [v] 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" [v] make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" [v] 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" [v] decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty" [v] make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" [v] succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrrow found its mark" [v] 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" [v] 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" [v] 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" [v] 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" [v] 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" [v] get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" [v] 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" [v] come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" 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[imp. & p. p. {Found}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Finding}.] [AS. findan; akin to D. vinden, OS. & OHG.
findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna, Goth.
fin?an; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr. ? to fall, Skr.
pat to fall, fly, E. petition.]
1. 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.
Searching the window for a flint, I found This
paper, thus sealed up. --Shak.
In woods and forests thou art found. --Cowley.
2. To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to
experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings;
to detect; to feel. ``I find you passing gentle.'' --Shak.
The torrid zone is now found habitable. --Cowley.
3. To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
(a) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
(b) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object
or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
(c) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to
find leisure; to find means.
(d) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
Seek, and ye shall find. --Matt. vii.
7.
Every mountain now hath found a tongue. --Byron.
4. To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food
for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
Wages [pounds]14 and all found. --London
Times.
Nothing a day and find yourself. --Dickens.
5. 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.
To find his title with some shows of truth. --Shak.
{To find out}, to detect (a thief); to discover (a secret) --
to solve or unriddle (a parable or enigma); to understand.
``Canst thou by searching find out God?'' --Job. xi. 7.
``We do hope to find out all your tricks.'' --Milton.
{To find fault with}, to blame; to censure.
{To find one's self}, to be; to fare; -- often used in
speaking of health; as, how do you find yourself this
morning?
\Find\, v. i. (Law) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff. --Burrill. \Find\, n. Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by arch[ae]ologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin. |
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