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find::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| 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 |
find::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| 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 |
find::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | find oneself |
| Type of | grow, maturate, mature |
My son went to Berkeley to find himself.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | breakthrough, discovery |
| Type of | brainwave, brainstorm, insight |
find::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| 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 |
find::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| 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!.
find::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | comprehend, perceive |
| Verb group | see, witness |
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.
From the dailyherald.com
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.
From the stltoday.com
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.
From the desmoinesregister.com
- 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.
