| find | | |
| breakthrough, discovery, find | (n.) | a productive insight. |
| discovery, find, uncovering | (n.) | the act of discovering something. |
| bump, chance, encounter, find, happen | (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" |
| detect, discover, find, notice, observe | (v.) | 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" |
| find, regain | (v.) | come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost.; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" |
| ascertain, determine, find, find out | (v.) | 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" |
| feel, find | (v.) | 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" |
| find, see, witness | (v.) | 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" |
| come up, find, get hold, line up | (v.) | 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" |
| discover, find | (v.) | make a discovery, make a new finding.; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" |
| discover, find | (v.) | make a discovery.; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" |
| find | (v.) | 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" |
| find, rule | (v.) | decide on and make a declaration about.; "find someone guilty" |
| find, get, incur, obtain, receive | (v.) | 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" |
| find | (v.) | 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" |
| find, recover, regain, retrieve | (v.) | get or find back; recover the use of.; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" |
| find | (v.) | succeed in reaching; arrive at.; "The arrow found its mark" |
| find, find oneself | (v.) | accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation.; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself" |
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