find - 19 definitions |
| - noun |
| 1. | discovery -- a productive insight |
| synonyms: discovery, breakthrough |
| Source:WordNet 3.0 |
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| 2. | discovery -- the act of discovering something |
| synonyms: discovery, uncovering |
| Source:WordNet 3.0 |
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| - verb |
| 3. | find -- 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" |
| synonyms: happen, chance, bump, encounter |
| Source:WordNet 3.0 |
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| 4. | detect -- 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" |
| synonyms: detect, observe, discover, notice |
| Source:WordNet 3.0 |
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| 5. | find -- come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" |
| synonyms: regain |
| antonyms: lose -- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!" |
| Source:WordNet 3.0 |
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| 6. | determine -- 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" |
| synonyms: determine, find out, ascertain |
| Source:WordNet 3.0 |
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| 7. | find -- 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" |
| synonyms: feel |
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| 8. | witness -- 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" |
| synonyms: witness, see |
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| 9. | line up -- 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" |
| synonyms: line up, get hold, come up |
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| 10. | discover -- make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" |
| synonyms: discover |
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| 11. | discover -- make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" |
| synonyms: discover |
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| 12. | find -- 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" |
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| 13. | rule -- decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty" |
| synonyms: rule |
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| 14. | receive -- 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" |
| synonyms: receive, get, obtain, incur |
| Source:WordNet 3.0 |
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| 15. | find -- 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" |
| Source:WordNet 3.0 |
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| 16. | recover -- get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" |
| synonyms: recover, retrieve, regain |
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| 17. | find -- succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark" |
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| 18. | find oneself -- accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself" |
| synonyms: find oneself |
| Source:WordNet 3.0 |
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| 19. | find, finds -- to come upon after a search |
| synonyms: finds, refind, unfound, findable |
| Source:OWL 2 Web Ontology Language |
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