Main entry: discovery, find, uncovering
Definition: the act of discovering something
Main entry: find, breakthrough, discovery
Definition: a productive insight
Main entry: find, find oneself
Definition: accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
Usage: My son went to Berkeley to find himself
Main entry: incur, get, obtain, receive, find
Definition: receive a specified treatment (abstract)
Usage: 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
Definition: come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
Usage: I feel that he doesn't like me; I find him to be obnoxious; I found the movie rather entertaining
Definition: make a discovery
Usage: She found that he had lied to her; The story is false, so far as I can discover
Main entry: ascertain, find, find out, determine
Definition: establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
Usage: find the product of two numbers; The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize
Definition: decide on and make a declaration about
Usage: find someone guilty
Definition: make a discovery, make a new finding
Usage: Roentgen discovered X-rays; Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle
Main entry: find
Definition: succeed in reaching; arrive at
Usage: The arrow found its mark
Main entry: find, see, witness
Definition: perceive or be contemporaneous with
Usage: 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
Main entry: find, notice, observe, detect, discover
Definition: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
Usage: She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water; We found traces of lead in the paint
Main entry: find
Definition: perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
Usage: I found myself in a difficult situation; When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room
Main entry: find
Definition: obtain through effort or management
Usage: She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents; We found the money to send our sons to college
Main entry: come up, find, get hold, line up
Definition: get something or somebody for a specific purpose
Usage: 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
Main entry: find, retrieve, recover, regain
Definition: get or find back; recover the use of
Usage: She regained control of herself; She found her voice and replied quickly
Main entry: bump, chance, find, encounter, happen
Definition: come upon, as if by accident; meet with
Usage: 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
Definition: come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
Usage: Did you find your glasses?; I cannot find my gloves!