Definition of finds Finds
/fajˈndz/ - [fayndz] -
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- finds (Noun)
Plural of find.
Part of speech
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| 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!" | ||
| regain | ||
| lose fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war" | ||
| acquire, get win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" | ||
| feel be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state; "My cold is gone--I feel fine today"; "She felt tired after the long hike"; "She felt sad after her loss" | ||
| locate, turn up discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" | ||
| chance on, chance upon, light upon, fall upon, happen upon, come upon, attain, come across, discover, strike find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake" | ||
| rout up, rout out get or find by searching; "What did you rout out in the library?" | ||
| 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" | ||
| feel | ||
| rule, find keep in check; "rule one's temper" | ||
| reason out, reason, conclude think logically; "The children must learn to reason" | ||
| 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" | ||
| happen, chance, bump, encounter | ||
| 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" | ||
| perceive, comprehend become conscious of; "She finally perceived the futility of her protest" | ||
| witness, find, see be a witness to; "She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court" | ||
| 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" | ||
| acquire, get win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" | ||
| regain, 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" | ||
| find - succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark" | ||
| arrive at, attain, gain, reach, hit, make increase (one's body weight); "She gained 20 pounds when she stopped exercising" | ||
| find - 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" | ||
| detect, observe, discover, notice | ||
| sight, spy take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device) | ||
| catch out, find out trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act; "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks" | ||
| sense comprehend; "I sensed the real meaning of his letter" | ||
| instantiate find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word); "The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect" | ||
| trace follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba" ; "trace the student's progress" | ||
| see be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product" | ||
| find - 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" | ||
| determine, find out, ascertain | ||
| ascertain, find out, learn, watch, determine, see, check learn or discover with certainty | ||
| discover, find make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" | ||
| gauge mix in specific proportions; "gauge plaster" | ||
| translate change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil" | ||
| rectify convert into direct current; "rectify alternating current" | ||
| redetermine fix, find, or establish again; "the physicists redetermined Planck's constant" | ||
| sequence arrange in a sequence | ||
| refract determine the refracting power of (a lens) | ||
| enumerate, numerate, number, count specify individually; "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"; "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug" | ||
| admeasure determine the quantity of someone's share | ||
| situate, locate put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot" | ||
| find - make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" | ||
| discover | ||
| discover, find make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" | ||
| conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate, conceive have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived" | ||
| find - make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" | ||
| discover | ||
| get a line, get wind, get word, find out, hear, learn, discover, pick up, see trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act; "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks" | ||
| get a line, get wind, get word, find out, hear, learn, discover, pick up, see trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act; "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks" | ||
| rake up bring to light; "He raked up the misdeeds of his predecessor" | ||
| ferret out, ferret search and discover through persistent investigation; "She ferreted out the truth" | ||
| discover, find make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" | ||
| find - get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" | ||
| recover, retrieve, regain | ||
| acquire, get win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" | ||
| access reach or gain access to; "How does one access the attic in this house?"; "I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I climb on the roof" | ||
| regain, 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" | ||
| find - 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" | ||
| witness, see | ||
| 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" | ||
| get a line, get wind, get word, find out, hear, learn, discover, pick up, see trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act; "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks" | ||
| experience, go through, see go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" | ||
| catch contract; "did you catch a cold?" | ||
| find - decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty" | ||
| rule | ||
| pronounce, judge, label pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here" | ||
| find - 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" | ||
| receive, get, obtain, incur | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| take ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial; "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors" | ||
| find - accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself" | ||
| find oneself | ||
| maturate, mature, grow develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" | ||
| find - 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" | ||
| line up, get hold, come up | ||
| acquire, get win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" | ||
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Wiktionary
- find (Noun)
Anything that is found usually valuable, as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent. - find (Noun)
The act of finding. - find (Verb)
To encounter, to discover something searched for. - find (Verb)
To point out . - find (Verb)
To decide that, to form the opinion that. - find (Verb)
To determine or judge.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- find (v. t.)
To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person. - find (v. t.)
To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel. - find (v. t.)
To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost. - find (v. t.)
To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom. - find (v. t.)
To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance. - find (v. t.)
To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means. - find (v. t.)
To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. - find (v. t.)
To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money. - find (v. t.)
To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person. - find (v. i.)
To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff. - find (n.)
Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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To spot, detect, recognize, capture, or see something or someone having been unknown, invisible, obscured, too distant, or otherwise not found before. -
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To encounter something by accident or after searching for it. -
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An object which has been found during an archaeological excavation. -
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To see, discover or determine something, unclear, distant or hidden, by looking carefully. -
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To come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost. -
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To establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study. -
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To make a discovery, to make a new finding.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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fīnd, v.t. to come upon or meet with: to discover or arrive at: to perceive: to experience: to supply: to determine after judicial inquiry:—pr.p. fīnd′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. found.—ns. Find′er; Find′-fault (Shak.), one who finds fault with another; Find′ing, act of one who finds: that which is found: a judicial verdict: (pl.) the appliances which some workmen have to supply, esp. of shoemakers—everything save leather.—Find one in (something), to supply one with something; Find one's account (in anything), to find satisfactory profit or advantage in it; Find one's legs, to rise, or to recover the use of one's legs, as after being drunk, &c.; Find one's self, to feel, as regards health, happiness, &c.; Find out, to discover. [A.S. findan; Ger. finden.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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find
To provide with or furnish.
