find

Meanings

• a productive insight
• the act of discovering something
• come upon, as if by accident; meet with
  • "We find this idea in Plato"
• discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
• come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
  • "Did you find your glasses?"
  • "I cannot find my gloves!"
• establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
  • "find the product of two numbers"
• come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
  • "I find him to be obnoxious"
• perceive or be contemporaneous with
• get something or somebody for a specific purpose
• make a discovery, make a new finding
• make a discovery
• obtain through effort or management
• decide on and make a declaration about
  • "find someone guilty"
• receive a specified treatment (abstract)
  • "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"
• perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
• get or find back; recover the use of
• succeed in reaching; arrive at
• accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
  • "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"

Synonyms

ascertain, breakthrough, bump, chance, come up, detect, determine, discover, discovery, encounter, feel, find oneself, find out, get, get hold, happen, incur, line up, notice, observe, obtain, receive, recover, regain, retrieve, rule, see, uncovering, witness