1. find - noun
· a productive insight
Synonym(s): discovery, breakthrough
Hypernym(s): insight, brainstorm, brainwave
2. find - noun
· the act of discovering something
Synonym(s): discovery, uncovering
Hypernym(s): act, deed, human_action, human_activity
3. find - 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"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
Synonym(s): happen, chance, bump, encounter
4. find - 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"
Synonym(s): detect, observe, discover, notice
5. find - 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!"
Synonym(s): regain
Antonym(s): lose
6. find - 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"
Synonym(s): determine, find_out, ascertain
7. find - 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"; "I found the movie rather entertaining"
Synonym(s): feel
Hypernym(s): reason, reason_out, conclude
8. find - verb
· 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"
Hypernym(s): experience, see, go_through
9. find - 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"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"
Synonym(s): line_up, get_hold, come_up
10. find - verb
· make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
Synonym(s): discover
Hypernym(s): gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
11. find - verb
· make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"
Synonym(s): discover
Hypernym(s): learn, hear, get_word, get_wind, pick_up, find_out, get_a_line, discover, see
12. find - 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"
13. find - verb
· decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty"
Synonym(s): rule
Hypernym(s): pronounce, label, judge
14. find - verb
· 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"
Synonym(s): receive, get, obtain, incur
Hypernym(s): change
15. find - 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"
Hypernym(s): perceive, comprehend
16. find - verb
· get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
Synonym(s): recover, retrieve, regain
17. find - verb
· succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark"
Hypernym(s): reach, make, attain, hit, arrive_at, gain
18. find - verb
· accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
Synonym(s): find_oneself
Hypernym(s): mature, maturate, grow
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