Meaning & Definition of Find in English

1. A productive insight

2. The act of discovering something

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"

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"

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!"

4. 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"

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"

6. 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"

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"

8. Make a discovery, make a new finding

• "Roentgen discovered x-rays"

• "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"

9. Make a discovery

• "She found that he had lied to her"

• "The story is false, so far as i can 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"

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"

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"

15. Succeed in reaching

• Arrive at

• "The arrow found its mark"

16. Accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

• "My son went to berkeley to find himself"