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▸ noun: the act of discovering something
▸ noun: a productive insight
▸ verb: perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
▸ verb: obtain through effort or management
▸ verb: come upon, as if by accident; meet with ("We find this idea in Plato")
▸ verb: come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost ("Did you find your glasses?")
▸ verb: come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds ("I find him to be obnoxious")
▸ verb: succeed in reaching; arrive at
▸ verb: perceive or be contemporaneous with
▸ verb: accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation ("My son went to Berkeley to find himself")
▸ verb: make a discovery
▸ verb: after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study ("Find the product of two numbers")
▸ verb: decide on and make a declaration about ("Find someone guilty")
▸ verb: make a discovery, make a new finding
▸ verb: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
▸ verb: get or find back; recover the use of
▸ verb: receive a specified treatment (abstract) ("These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation")
▸ verb: get something or somebody for a specific purpose
▸ Also see found
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to find
▸ Usage examples for find
▸ Idioms related to find (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing find
▸ Words that often appear near find
▸ Rhymes of find
▸ Invented words related to find
▸ noun: the act of discovering something
▸ noun: a productive insight
▸ verb: perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
▸ verb: obtain through effort or management
▸ verb: come upon, as if by accident; meet with ("We find this idea in Plato")
▸ verb: come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost ("Did you find your glasses?")
▸ verb: come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds ("I find him to be obnoxious")
▸ verb: succeed in reaching; arrive at
▸ verb: perceive or be contemporaneous with
▸ verb: accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation ("My son went to Berkeley to find himself")
▸ verb: make a discovery
▸ verb: after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study ("Find the product of two numbers")
▸ verb: decide on and make a declaration about ("Find someone guilty")
▸ verb: make a discovery, make a new finding
▸ verb: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
▸ verb: get or find back; recover the use of
▸ verb: receive a specified treatment (abstract) ("These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation")
▸ verb: get something or somebody for a specific purpose
▸ Also see found
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to find
▸ Usage examples for find
▸ Idioms related to find (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing find
▸ Words that often appear near find
▸ Rhymes of find
▸ Invented words related to find