English dictionary
find
nounPronunciation
faɪnd
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- the act of discovering something
noun
- a productive insight
verb
- accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
verb
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
verb
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
verb
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
verb
- decide on and make a declaration about
verb
- make a discovery, make a new finding
verb
- succeed in reaching; arrive at
verb
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
verb
- discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
verb
- perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
verb
- obtain through effort or management
verb
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
verb
- get or find back; recover the use of
verb
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
verb
- come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
Example sentences
My son went to Berkeley to find himself
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
I feel that he doesn't like me
I find him to be obnoxious
I found the movie rather entertaining
find the product of two numbers
The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize
find someone guilty
Roentgen discovered X-rays
Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle
The arrow found its mark
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
She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water
We found traces of lead in the paint
I found myself in a difficult situation
When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room
She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents
We found the money to send our sons to college
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
She regained control of herself
She found her voice and replied quickly
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
Did you find your glasses?
I cannot find my gloves!