Noun | 1. | ![]() Synonyms: breakthrough, discovery |
2. | find - the act of discovering something Synonyms: discovery, uncovering | |
Verb | 1. | 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" |
2. | 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" | |
3. | 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!" | |
4. | find - 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" | |
5. | 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 | |
6. | find - perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "I want to see results"; "The 1960 saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results" | |
7. | 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" | |
8. | find - make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" Synonyms: discover | |
9. | find - make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" Synonyms: discover | |
10. | 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" | |
11. | find - decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty" Synonyms: rule | |
12. | 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" | |
13. | 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" | |
14. | find - get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" | |
15. | find - succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrrow found its mark" | |
16. | find - accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself" Synonyms: find oneself |