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Topic: find
Definition:

  • a productive insight the act of discovering something 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"
  • "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day" 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" come upon after searching
  • find the location of something that was missed or lost
  • "Did you find your glasses?"
  • "I cannot find my gloves!" 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" 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"
  • "I found the movie rather entertaining" perceive or be contemporaneous with
  • "We found Republicans winning the offices"
  • "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"
  • "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"
  • "I want to see results" 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"
  • "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter" make a discovery, make a new finding
  • "Roentgen discovered X-rays"
  • "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" make a discovery
  • "She found that he had lied to her"
  • "The story is false, so far as I can discover" 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" decide on and make a declaration about
  • "find someone guilty" receive a specified treatment (abstract)
  • "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" 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" get or find back
  • recover the use of
  • "She regained control of herself"
  • "She found her voice and replied quickly" succeed in reaching
  • arrive at
  • "The arrow found its mark" accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
  • "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"

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    • Resources:

    iTools
    Search dictionaries, thesauri, the Bible, and many other tools.
    http://www.iTools.com/

    FindLaw
    Comprehensive legal guide, containing cases, codes, forms, links to law reviews, law schools, bar associations, law firms, experts, CLE courses, and other legal sites.
    http://www.findlaw.com

    Switchboard Incorporated
    Provides internet-based local merchant network interconnecting consumers, merchants and national advertisers. (Nasdaq: SWBD).
    http://www.switchboard.com/

    Find A Grave
    A resource for finding the final resting places of notable people. You can search by name, location or claim to fame. Thousands of pictures of notable graves, as well.
    http://www.findagrave.com/

    AOL Search
    Uses the Open Directory Project's RDF data dumps to offer directory listing services aimed at AOL customers.
    http://search.aol.com/

    FindArticles.com
    A searchable online archive of magazine and journal content.
    http://www.findarticles.com/