find > 18 sensesNOUN | 1 | find, discovery, breakthrough | A productive insight |
---|
2 | find, discovery, uncovering | The act of discovering something |
VERB | 1 | find, happen, chance, bump, encounter | Come upon, as if by accident |
---|
2 | find, detect, observe, discover, notice | Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of |
3 | find, regain | Come upon after searching |
4 | find, determine, find out, ascertain | After a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study |
5 | find, feel | Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds |
6 | find, witness, see | Perceive or be contemporaneous with |
7 | find, line up, get hold, come up | Get something or somebody for a specific purpose |
8 | find, discover | Make a discovery, make a new finding |
9 | find, discover | Make a discovery |
10 | find | Obtain through effort or management |
11 | find, rule | Decide on and make a declaration about |
12 | find, receive, get, obtain, incur | Receive a specified treatment (abstract) |
13 | find | Perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place |
14 | find, recover, retrieve, regain | Get or find back |
15 | find | Succeed in reaching |
16 | find, find oneself | Accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation |
find > verb 3, possessionMeaning | Come upon after searching. Find the location of something that was missed or lost. |
---|
Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
---|
Model | They find the money in the closet |
---|
Examples | "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" |
---|
Synonyms | regain |
---|
Narrower | feel; locate, turn up; fall upon, strike, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain, discover; rout up, rout out |
---|
Broader | get, acquire |
---|
Contrary | lose |
---|
Similar to | find; recover, retrieve, find, regain |
---|
Nouns | finder; finder; find |
---|
find > verb 4, communicationMeaning | After a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study. |
---|
Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE |
---|
Examples | "find the product of two numbers" |
---|
Synonyms | determine, find out, ascertain |
---|
Narrower | gauge; translate; rectify; redetermine; sequence; refract; count, number, enumerate, numerate; admeasure; situate, locate |
---|
Similar to | determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn; discover, find |
---|
Nouns | finding; find |
---|
find > verb 8, creationMeaning | Make a discovery, make a new finding. |
---|
Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
---|
Synonyms | discover |
---|
Broader | gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise |
---|
Similar to | discover, find; determine, find, find out, ascertain; detect, observe, find, discover, notice |
---|
Nouns | find; finding; find |
---|