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4 definitions found 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 ``I find you passing gentle.'' --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 [pounds]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[ae]ologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: find n 1: a productive insight [syn: {discovery}, {breakthrough}] 2: the act of discovering something [syn: {discovery}, {uncovering}] v 1: 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" [syn: {happen}, {chance}, {hit}, {bump}, {encounter}] 2: 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" [syn: {detect}, {observe}, {discover}, {notice}] 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!" [syn: {regain}] [ant: {lose}] 4: after a calculation, investigation, experiment, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" [syn: {determine}, {find out}, {ascertain}] 5: 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" [syn: {feel}] 6: perceive with any or all of one's senses "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; give rise to or be characterized by "The 1960 saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions" [syn: {witness}, {see}] 7: 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" [syn: {line up}, {get hold}, {come up}] 8: make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Darwin found many new species on the Galapagos Islands" [syn: {discover}] 9: make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" [syn: {discover}] 10: 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" 11: decide on and make a declaration about "find someone guilty" [syn: {rule}] 12: 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" [syn: {receive}, {get}, {obtain}, {incur}] 13: 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" 14: get or find back recover the use of "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" [syn: {recover}, {retrieve}, {regain}] 15: succeed in reaching; arrive at "The arrrow found its mark" 16: become aware of who one is and what one wants to do in life; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
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