Find : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Find	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
find n a productive insight [syn: discovery, breakthrough, find] the act of discovering something Synonym(s): discovery, find, uncovering v 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" Synonym(s): find, happen, chance, bump, encounter 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" Synonym(s): detect, observe, find, discover, notice come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" Synonym(s): find, regain Antonym(s): lose 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" Synonym(s): determine, find, find out, ascertain 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" Synonym(s): find, feel 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" Synonym(s): witness, find, see 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" Synonym(s): line up, get hold, come up, find make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" Synonym(s): discover, find make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" Synonym(s): discover, 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" decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty" Synonym(s): rule, 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" Synonym(s): receive, get, find, obtain, incur 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" get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" Synonym(s): recover, retrieve, find, regain succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark" accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself" Synonym(s): find oneself, find
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Find \Find\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Found}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Finding}.] [AS. findan; akin to D. vinden, OS. & OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna, Goth. fin[?]an; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr. [?] to fall, Skr. pat to fall, fly, E. petition.] 1. 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. Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up. --Shak. In woods and forests thou art found. --Cowley. 2. To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel. [bd]I find you passing gentle.[b8] --Shak. The torrid zone is now found habitable. --Cowley. 3. To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost. (a) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom. (b) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance. (c) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means. (d) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. Seek, and ye shall find. --Matt. vii. 7. Every mountain now hath found a tongue. --Byron. 4. To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money. Wages [9c]14 and all found. --London Times. Nothing a day and find yourself. --Dickens.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Find \Find\, v. i. (Law) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff. --Burrill.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Find \Find\, n. Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by arch[91]ologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.