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English

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Etymology

From , from . Cognate with Dutch , German , Swedish .

Pronunciation


Homophones


Verb

{{en-verb|finds|finding|found|found or archaic founden}}

  1. To encounter, to discover.
  2. : ''Project Gutenberg finds that Find is the 190th most important word in the English language.
  3. : I found my car keys -- they were under the couch.
  4. To point out.
  5. : He kept finding faults with my work.
  6. To decide that, to form the opinion that.
  7. : I find your argument unsatisfactory.
  8. To determine or judge.
  9. : The jury finds for the defendant


Derived terms

See also finding and found


Translations

  • Arabic: {{t+|ar|وَجَدَ|sc=Arab}}
  • Crimean Tatar: tapmaq
  • Czech: ,
  • Danish: finde, træffe
  • Dutch: ,
  • Esperanto: {{t+|eo|trovi|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Finnish:
  • French:
  • German:
  • Hebrew: {{t|he|לימצוא|tr=limtzo|sc=Hebr}}
  • Icelandic:
  • Irish: {{t-|ga|faigh|xs=Irish}}
  • Italian:
  • Danish: finde, udpege
  • Dutch: ,
  • Finnish:
  • Japanese: 指摘する (してきする, shiteki-suru)
  • Portuguese:
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|находить|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Swedish: finna, konstatera,
  • Danish: dømme
  • Dutch:
  • Esperanto: juĝi
  • Japanese: 評決する (ひょうけつする, hyōketsu-suru)
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|находить|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: ,
  • Swedish: ,

Noun

  1. Anything that is found, especially by good fortune.


Synonyms

  • (anything found, especially by good fortune): discovery


Translations

  • Danish: {{t-|da|fund|c}}
  • Dutch: {{t-|nl|vondst|f}}
  • Esperanto: trovaĵo, trovitaĵo
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|trouvaille|f}}
  • Icelandic: {{t-|is|fundur|m}}
  • Polish: znalezisko
  • Romanian: {{t-|ro|descoperire|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|находка|f|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|hallazgo|m}}
  • Swedish: fynd

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Find \Find\ (f[imac]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Found (found); p.
pr. & vb. n. Finding.] [AS. findan; akin to D. vinden, OS.
& OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna,
Goth. fin[thorn]an; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr.
pi`ptein 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.
[1913 Webster]

Searching the window for a flint, I found
This paper, thus sealed up. --Shak.
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In woods and forests thou art found. --Cowley.
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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.
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The torrid zone is now found habitable. --Cowley.
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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.
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Seek, and ye shall find. --Matt. vii.
7.
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Every mountain now hath found a tongue. --Byron.
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4. To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food
for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
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Wages [pounds]14 and all found. --London
Times.
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Nothing a day and find yourself. --Dickens.
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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.
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To find his title with some shows of truth. --Shak.
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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?
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Find \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.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Find \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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WordNet find
n 1: a productive insight [syn: discovery, breakthrough]
2: the act of discovering something [syn: discovery, uncovering]
v 1: 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" [syn: happen,
chance, bump, encounter]
2: 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" [syn: detect, observe,
discover, notice]
3: come upon after searching; find the location of something
that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I
cannot find my gloves!" [syn: regain] [ant: lose]
4: 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" [syn:
determine, find out, ascertain]
5: 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" [syn: feel]
6: 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" [syn: witness, see]
7: 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" [syn: line up, get hold, come up]
8: make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered
X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary
particle" [syn: discover]
9: make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The
story is false, so far as I can discover" [syn: discover]
10: 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"
11: decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone
guilty" [syn: rule]
12: 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" [syn: receive,
get, obtain, incur]
13: 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"
14: get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control
of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
[syn: recover, retrieve, regain]
15: succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrrow found its mark"
16: accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and
situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
[syn: find oneself]
[also: found]
Moby Dictionary
accommodate , accomplish , achieve , acquire , act on , afford , allot ,
approach , arouse , arrive , arrive at , arrive in , ascertain , assign ,
attain , attain to , awaken , bargain , be informed , be received ,
become acquainted with , become aware of , blow in , boast , bob up ,
bonus , boon , bring to light , bringing to light , broaden the mind ,
bump into , buried treasure , call up , casual discovery , catch ,
catch sight of , catching , chance discovery , check in , clock in ,
clothe , collect , come , come across , come in , come to , come to hand ,
come up with , command , conclude , condemn , consider , contribute ,
cram the mind , deal , decide , declare , decree , deduce , derive ,
descry , detect , detection , determination , determine , determining ,
diamond , dig up , discern , disclosure , discover , discovery ,
distinguish , distinguishment , donate , doom , draw a conclusion ,
draw an inference , encounter , endow , espial , espy , excavation ,
exhumation , experience , exposure , extract , fall in with , fetch ,
fetch up at , fill , fill up , find against , find for , find out ,
find out about , finding , finding out , finger , fix , foundling , fund ,
furnish , gain , gain knowledge , gather , gather up , gem , get ,
get back , get hold of , get in , get there , get to , give , glean ,
godsend , good thing , gravy , hit , hit town , hit upon , hunt down ,
identify , induce , infer , invent , invention , invest , jewel , judge ,
keep , lay , learn , learn about , light upon , load the mind , locate ,
locating , location , lucky strike , maintain , make , make a decision ,
make available , make it , make provision for , manage , mark ,
meet with , muster up , note , notice , obtain , order , pass judgment ,
pass sentence , pearl , perceive , pick up information , plum ,
point to , pop up , prepare , present , pride , pride and joy , prize ,
procure , pronounce , pronounce judgment , pronounce on , provide ,
provide for , pull in , punch in , reach , realize , reason ,
reason that , recognition , recognize , recoup , recover , recruit ,
rediscover , rediscovery , regard , remark , replenish , report ,
repossess , resolve , return a verdict , reveal , revelation , ring in ,
roll in , rouse , rule , rumble , run down , run to earth , scare up ,
secure , see , sentence , serendipity , set aside , settle , show up ,
sight , sign in , spot , spotting , stock , store , strike , subsidize ,
summon up , supply , support , take as proved , think , time in , trace ,
trace down , track down , treasure , treasure trove , trophy ,
trouvaille , trove , tumble to , turn over , turn up , twig , uncover ,
uncovering , understand , unearth , unearthing , utter a judgment ,
view , waifs , waifs and strays , win , windfall , windfall money ,
windfall profit , winner , yield


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