Dictionary Entry
find
find is a 4-letter English word with 29 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 29 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
- 2transitive verb
To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
- 3transitive verb
To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
- 4transitive verb
To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
- 5transitive verb
To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
- 6transitive verb
To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.
- 7transitive verb
To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- 8transitive verb
To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
- 9transitive verb
To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.
- 10intransitive verb
To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.
- 11noun
Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
- 12noun
the act of discovering something
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- 13noun
a productive insight
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- 14verb
accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
"My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
- 15verb
receive a specified treatment (abstract)
"These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"
"His movie received a good review"
- 16verb
come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
"I feel that he doesn't like me"
"I find him to be obnoxious"
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- 17verb
make a discovery
"She found that he had lied to her"
"The story is false, so far as I can discover"
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- 18verb
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"
- 19verb
decide on and make a declaration about
"find someone guilty"
Synonyms
- 20verb
make a discovery, make a new finding
"Roentgen discovered X-rays"
"Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
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- 21verb
succeed in reaching; arrive at
"The arrow found its mark"
- 22verb
perceive or be contemporaneous with
"We found Republicans winning the offices"
"You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"
- 23verb
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"
- 24verb
perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
"I found myself in a difficult situation"
"When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room"
- 25verb
obtain through effort or management
"She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"
"We found the money to send our sons to college"
- 26verb
get something or somebody for a specific purpose
"I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"
"I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"
- 27verb
get or find back; recover the use of
"She regained control of herself"
"She found her voice and replied quickly"
- 28verb
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"
- 29verb
come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
"Did you find your glasses?"
"I cannot find my gloves!"
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