find
Nouns
- (n) a productive insight breakthrough, discovery,
- (n) the act of discovering something discovery, uncovering,
Verbs
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(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
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(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
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(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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(v) 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
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(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
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(v) 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
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(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
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(v) make a discovery, make a new finding
- Roentgen discovered X-rays
- Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle
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(v) make a discovery
- She found that he had lied to her
- The story is false, so far as I can discover
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(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
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(v) decide on and make a declaration about
- find someone guilty
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(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
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(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
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(v) get or find back; recover the use of
- She regained control of herself
- She found her voice and replied quickly
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(v) succeed in reaching; arrive at
- The arrow found its mark
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(v) accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
- My son went to Berkeley to find himself