Meaning of 'find'

verb

accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

Example: "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"

Synonyms: find oneself

verb

receive a specified treatment (abstract)

Example: "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"

Synonyms: get receive obtain incur

verb

come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds

Synonyms: feel

verb

make a discovery

Synonyms: discover

verb

establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

Example: "find the product of two numbers"

Synonyms: find out ascertain determine

verb

decide on and make a declaration about

Example: "find someone guilty"

Synonyms: rule

verb

make a discovery, make a new finding

Synonyms: discover

verb

succeed in reaching

verb

perceive or be contemporaneous with

Synonyms: witness see

verb

discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of

Synonyms: notice discover observe detect

verb

perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place

verb

obtain through effort or management

verb

get something or somebody for a specific purpose

Synonyms: come up line up get hold

verb

get or find back

Synonyms: recover retrieve regain

verb

come upon, as if by accident

Synonyms: encounter chance bump happen

verb

come upon after searching

Example: "find the location of something that was missed or lost"

Synonyms: regain

noun

the act of discovering something

Synonyms: uncovering

noun

a productive insight

Synonyms: discovery