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How to pronounce find in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms discovery, uncovering
Type of human activity, act, deed, human action
Has types determination, detection, tracing, spying, catching, spotting, self-discovery, rediscovery, finding, espial, breakthrough
Type Words
Synonyms bump, chance, encounter, happen
Derivation finder


We find this idea in Plato.
Type Words
Synonyms detect, discover, notice, observe
Type of sight, spy
Has types instantiate, find out, sense, catch out, trace, see
Verb group discover
Derivation finder, finding
Type Words
Synonyms feel
Type of conclude, reason out, reason
Verb group rule


I find him to be obnoxious.
Type Words
Synonyms see, witness
Type of experience, go through, see
Has types catch
Verb group learn, get wind, get word, see, discover, find out, hear, get a line, pick up
Derivation finder
Type Words
Synonyms recover, regain, retrieve
Type of acquire, get
Has types access
Verb group regain
Type Words
Synonyms find oneself
Type of grow, maturate, mature


My son went to Berkeley to find himself.
Type Words
Synonyms discover
Type of discover, hear, get a line, learn, get wind, see, get word, find out, pick up
Has types ferret out, rake up, ferret
Verb group discover
Type Words
Synonyms get, incur, obtain, receive
Type of change
Has types take
Verb group get, acquire


These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation.
Type Words
Synonyms breakthrough, discovery
Type of brainwave, brainstorm, insight
Type Words
Synonyms ascertain, determine, find out
Has types numerate, admeasure, count, enumerate, gauge, locate, number, rectify, redetermine, refract, sequence, situate, translate
Verb group find out, learn, ascertain, watch, determine, see, discover, check
Derivation finding


find the product of two numbers.
Type Words
Synonyms discover
Type of conceptualise, conceptualize, conceive, gestate
Verb group notice, determine, find out, detect, discover, ascertain, observe
Derivation finding
Type Words
Synonyms come up, get hold, line up
Type of acquire, get
Type Words
Synonyms rule
Type of judge, pronounce, label
Verb group feel
Derivation finding


find someone guilty.
Type Words
Synonyms regain
Type of get, acquire
Has types fall upon, discover, turn up, strike, rout up, rout out, locate, light upon, attain, happen upon, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, feel
Verb group recover, retrieve, regain
Derivation finder


Did you find your glasses?.
I cannot find my gloves!.
Type Words
Type of get, acquire
Verb group regain
Type Words
Type of comprehend, perceive
Verb group see, witness
Type Words
Type of attain, gain, make, reach, arrive at, hit

Examples of find

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In the near future, we will be trying to find a better way to handle this issue.
From the tennessean.com
State and federal officials must find a way to finance that long-needed project.
From the dailyherald.com
For Colin, I tried to find a visual way to communicate what stuttering was like.
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I thought it was unwatchable, but then, I always find the auditions unwatchable.
From the stltoday.com
When they falter, the division struggles to find more than two legit contenders.
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If you can find cilantro with the roots still attached, use them in this recipe.
From the stltoday.com
I didn't find that you had to be religous at all to think this was a great show.
From the stltoday.com
That she must find a good Christian man to be a spiritual leader for their boys.
From the desmoinesregister.com
You can find boxes to drop off donations and hats and gloves at the high school.
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More examples
  • 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"
  • Discovery: a productive insight
  • Discovery: the act of discovering something
  • Detect: 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"
  • Come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!"
  • Determine: 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"
  • In Unix-like and some other operating systems, find is a command-line utility that searches through one or more directory trees of a file system, locates files based on some user-specified criteria and applies a user-specified action on each matched file. ...
  • In computing, find is a command in the command line interpreters (shells) of DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. It is used to search for a specific text string in a file or files. The command sends the specified lines the standard output device.
  • Find is Hidden in Plain View's debut EP. It was released by the now defunct independent record label DAB Records on March 24, 2001.