find /faɪnd/
1. a productive insight
synset: discovery, breakthrough, find
2. the act of discovering something
synset: discovery, find, uncovering
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"
synset: find, 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"
synset: detect, observe, find, 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!"
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"
synset: determine, find, 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"
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"
synset: line_up, get_hold, come_up, find
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"
synset: find
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"
synset: receive, get, find, 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"
synset: find
14. get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
synset: recover, retrieve, find, regain
15. succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark"
synset: find
16. accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
synset: find_oneself, find
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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