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.
Definitions
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
- transitive verb. To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
- transitive verb. To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
- transitive verb. To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
- transitive verb. To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.
- transitive verb. To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- transitive verb. To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
- transitive 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.
- intransitive verb. To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.
- noun. Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
- noun. the act of discovering something
- noun. a productive insight
- verb. accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
"My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
- verb. receive a specified treatment (abstract)
"These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"
"His movie received a good review"
- verb. 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"
- verb. make a discovery
"She found that he had lied to her"
"The story is false, so far as I can discover"
- verb. 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"
- verb. decide on and make a declaration about
"find someone guilty"
- verb. make a discovery, make a new finding
"Roentgen discovered X-rays"
"Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
- verb. succeed in reaching; arrive at
"The arrow found its mark"
- verb. perceive or be contemporaneous with
"We found Republicans winning the offices"
"You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"
- verb. 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"
- verb. 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"
- verb. 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"
- verb. 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"
- verb. get or find back; recover the use of
"She regained control of herself"
"She found her voice and replied quickly"
- verb. 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"
- verb. come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
"Did you find your glasses?"
"I cannot find my gloves!"
Synonyms
discovery, uncovering, breakthrough, get, incur, obtain, receive, feel, discover, ascertain, determine, rule, see, witness, detect, notice, observe, recover, regain, retrieve, bump, chance, encounter, happen
Common word forms
finds, findal, finder, finding, findable
Words from these letters
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