• the act of discovering something
• a productive insight
• accept and make use of one''s personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to Find himself"
• 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"
• 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"
• make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"
• 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"
• decide on and make a declaration about; "Find someone guilty"
• make a discovery, make a new Finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
• succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrrow found its mark"
• perceive or be contemporaneous with; "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
• 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"
• 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"
• 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"
• 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"
• get or Find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
• 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"
• come upon after searching; Find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you Find your glasses?"; "I cannot Find my gloves!"

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