find
noun
1. a productive insight
Similar word(s): breakthrough, discovery
Definition categories: thought, brainstorm, brainwave, insight
2. the act of discovering something
Similar word(s): discovery, uncovering
verb
1. come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- We find this idea in Plato
Similar word(s): bump, chance, encounter, happen
Definition categories: possession
2. discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
Similar word(s): detect, discover, notice, observe
Definition categories: perception, sight, spy
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!
Similar word(s): regain
Definition categories: possession, acquire, get
4. establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- find the product of two numbers
Similar word(s): ascertain, determine
Definition categories: communication
5. come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- I find him to be obnoxious
Similar word(s): feel
Definition categories: cognition, conclude, reason
6. perceive or be contemporaneous with
Definition categories: perception, experience, see
7. get something or somebody for a specific purpose
Definition categories: possession, acquire, get
8. make a discovery, make a new finding
Similar word(s): discover
Definition categories: creation, conceive, conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate
9. make a discovery
Similar word(s): discover
Definition categories: cognition, discover, hear, learn, see
10. obtain through effort or management
Definition categories: possession, acquire, get
11. decide on and make a declaration about
- find someone guilty
Similar word(s): rule
Definition categories: communication, judge, label, pronounce
12. receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation
Similar word(s): get, incur, obtain, receive
Definition categories: change
13. perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
Definition categories: perception, comprehend, perceive
14. get or find back; recover the use of
Similar word(s): recover, regain, retrieve
Definition categories: possession, acquire, get
15. succeed in reaching; arrive at
Definition categories: motion, attain, gain, hit, make, reach
16. accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
- My son went to Berkeley to find himself
Definition categories: change, grow, maturate, mature
Sentences with find as a verb:
- to find leisure; to find means
- He kept finding faults with my work.
- I find your argument unsatisfactory.
- to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person
- to find food for workmen
- He finds his nephew in money.
- The jury finds for the defendant.