what does find mean?
FIND as NOUN
- Meaning
- the act of discovering something
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Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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FIND as VERB
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- accept and make use of one’’s personality, abilities, and situation
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- My son went to Berkeley to find himself
Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
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- 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
Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
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- I feel that he doesn”t like me
- I find him to be obnoxious
- I found the movie rather entertaining
Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- She found that he had lied to her
- The story is false, so far as I can discover
Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
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- find the product of two numbers
- The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize
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- decide on and make a declaration about
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Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- make a discovery, make a new finding
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- Roentgen discovered X-rays
- Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle
Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- succeed in reaching
- arrive at
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- The arrrow found its mark
Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- perceive or be contemporaneous with
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- We found Republicans winning the offices
- You”ll see a lot of cheating in this school
- I want to see results
- The 1960 saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions
- I want to see
Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
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- She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water
- We found traces of lead in the paint
Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
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- I found myself in a difficult situation
- When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room
Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- Meaning
- obtain through effort or management
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- She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents
- We found the money to send our sons to college
Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- Meaning
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
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- 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
Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- get or find back
- recover the use of
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- She regained control of herself
- She found her voice and replied quickly
Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- come upon, as if by accident
- meet with
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- 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
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- Meaning
- come upon after searching
- find the location of something that was missed or lost
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- Did you find your glasses?
- I cannot find my gloves!
Hypernyms(s) find is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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