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Find has 20 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

a productive insight

"After hours of staring at the blank page, I finally found a creative angle that made the whole story click into place."

2

the act of discovering something

"After searching through the entire attic for hours, we finally found the old photo album hidden behind a stack of boxes."

3

Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.

"The excavation team was thrilled to find several ancient gold coins buried beneath the ruins of the temple."

In plain English: A find is something interesting or valuable that you discover by chance.

"I have to make my own find in this store because they are out of bread."

Usage: Use "find" as a noun to refer to something discovered, such as an artifact at an archaeological site or a person with notable talent. It typically implies the object was located unexpectedly or holds special value because of its discovery.

Verb
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"

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"

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!"

4

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"

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"

6

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"

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"

8

make a discovery, make a new finding

"Roentgen discovered X-rays"

"Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"

9

make a discovery

"She found that he had lied to her"

"The story is false, so far as I can 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"

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"

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"

15

succeed in reaching; arrive at

"The arrow found its mark"

16

accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

"My son went to Berkeley to find himself"

17

To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.

"I wasn't even looking for them, but I found an old photo album tucked away in the back of my grandmother's closet."

In plain English: To find means to successfully locate something that was lost or hidden.

"I need to find my keys before we leave for the store."

Usage: Use "find" when you unexpectedly come across something while doing something else, such as finding money on the sidewalk. It implies that the discovery was accidental rather than the result of a deliberate search.

Example Sentences
"I have to make my own find in this store because they are out of bread." noun
"The lost hiker asked if anyone had found his dog near the trailhead." noun
"She decided to find her way home without looking at a map." noun
"I cannot believe I failed to find my keys in such a small apartment." noun
"I need to find my keys before we leave for the store." verb
Related Terms
Antonyms
lose
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
insight act spy get reason experience gestate learn pronounce change perceive reach mature
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
tracing detection self-discovery breakthrough determination rediscovery find out sense instantiate trace see feel locate fall upon rout up gauge translate rectify redetermine sequence refract count admeasure situate catch rake up ferret out take access

Origin

The word "find" comes from the Old English verb findan, which originally meant to discover or come upon something. It traveled into Middle English as finden and eventually became the modern word we use today.

Rhyming Words
ind bind tind lind rind iind kind mind sind hind wind poind teind ahind amind brind blind swind grind behind
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