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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 finds
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Inside one of the bags, it could be he finds a note from the one who sends them.
From the dailyherald.com
A boomer, even a young boomer, finds it almost impossible to be hired for a job.
From the kansas.com
Joe Pesci finds loads of humor as Jake's long-suffering and much-abused brother.
From the kentucky.com
Teta finds pets to appear on the show by holding auditions all over the country.
From the upi.com
He often finds himself taking off his CEO hat to assume the role of shareholder.
From the businessweek.com
Moreover, what if the entire financial system still finds a way to come unglued?
From the businessweek.com
Now, Meshkin finds himself at odds with many in the tight-knit racing community.
From the businessweek.com
Evaluating megascale projects, she finds that many costs come with the benefits.
From the businessweek.com
When it finds one, it adds that person to the address book inside the Tango app.
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- 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.
