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say it: fahynd
find is a verb and noun meaning "come upon, as if by accident; meet with". It carries 18 recorded senses.
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”
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”
make a discovery
“She found that he had lied to her”
“The story is false, so far as I can discover”
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”
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”
accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
“My son went to Berkeley to find himself”
a productive insight
the act of discovering something
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for find come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.