 9 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
find
noun
1: a productive insight [syn: {discovery}, {breakthrough}]
2: the act of discovering something [syn: {discovery}, {uncovering}]
verb
1: 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" [syn: {happen},
{chance}, {bump}, {encounter}]
2: 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" [syn: {detect}, {observe},
{discover}, {notice}]
3: come upon after searching; find the location of something
that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I
cannot find my gloves!" [syn: {regain}] [ant: {lose}]
4: 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" [syn:
{determine}, {find out}, {ascertain}]
5: 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" [syn: {feel}]
6: 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 results" [syn: {witness}, {see}]
7: 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" [syn: {line up}, {get hold}, {come up}]
8: make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered
X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary
particle" [syn: {discover}]
9: make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The
story is false, so far as I can discover" [syn: {discover}]
10: 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"
11: decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone
guilty" [syn: {rule}]
12: 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" [syn: {receive},
{get}, {obtain}, {incur}]
13: 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"
14: get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control
of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
[syn: {recover}, {retrieve}, {regain}]
15: succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrrow found its mark"
16: accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and
situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
[syn: {find oneself}]
[also: {found}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
found
adjective: come upon unexpectedly or after searching; "found art"; "the
lost-and-found department" [ant: {lost}]
noun: food and lodging provided in addition to money; "they worked
for $30 and found"
verb
1: set up or found; "She set up a literacy program" [syn: {establish},
{set up}, {launch}] [ant: {abolish}]
2: set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new
department" [syn: {establish}, {plant}, {constitute}, {institute}]
3: use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some
observation" [syn: {establish}, {base}, {ground}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
found
See {find}
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Found \Found\,
imp. & p. p. of {Find}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Found \Found\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Founded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Founding}.] [F. fondre, L. fundere to found, pour.]
To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to
cast. ''Whereof to found their engines.'' --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Found \Found\, noun
A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Found \Found\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Founded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Founding}.] [F. fonder, L. fundare, fr. fundus bottom. See
1st {Bottom}, and cf. {Founder}, verb (used without an object), {Fund}.]
1. To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something
solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis,
literal or figurative; to fix firmly.
I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. --Shak.
A man that all his time
Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. --Shak.
It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. --Matt.
vii. 25.
2. To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or
building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to
begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to
found a family.
There they shall found
Their government, and their great senate choose.
--Milton.
Syn: To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See
{Predicate}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Find \Find\ (f[imac]nd), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Found} (found); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Finding}.] [AS. findan; akin to D. vinden, OS.
& OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna,
Goth. fin[thorn]an; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr.
pi'ptein to fall, Skr. pat to fall, fly, E. petition.]
1. To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the
first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or
unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
Searching the window for a flint, I found
This paper, thus sealed up. --Shak.
In woods and forests thou art found. --Cowley.
2. To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to
experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings;
to detect; to feel. ''I find you passing gentle.'' --Shak.
The torrid zone is now found habitable. --Cowley.
3. To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
(a) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
(b) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object
or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
(c) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to
find leisure; to find means.
(d) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
Seek, and ye shall find. --Matt. vii.
7.
Every mountain now hath found a tongue. --Byron.
4. To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food
for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
Wages [pounds]14 and all found. --London
Times.
Nothing a day and find yourself. --Dickens.
5. To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to
establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of
indictment) against an accused person.
To find his title with some shows of truth. --Shak.
{To find out}, to detect (a thief); to discover (a secret) --
to solve or unriddle (a parable or enigma); to understand.
''Canst thou by searching find out God?'' --Job. xi. 7.
''We do hope to find out all your tricks.'' --Milton.
{To find fault with}, to blame; to censure.
{To find one's self}, to be; to fare; -- often used in
speaking of health; as, how do you find yourself this
morning?
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
166 Moby Thesaurus words for "found":
assemble, author, base, bear, bed, beget, begin, blaze, blister,
block out, bottom, brand, breed, bring about, bring forth,
bring to effect, bring to pass, bring up, broach, build, build in,
burn, burn in, burn off, carve, cast, cause, cauterize, char,
chase, chisel, christen, coal, commence, conceive, confirm,
constitute, crack, create, cupel, cut, deep-dye, define, develop,
do, effect, effectuate, efform, embed, engender, engraft, engrave,
entrench, erect, establish, etch, fashion, father, figure, fix,
flame, float, forge, form, formalize, frame, generate, gestate,
give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to,
grave, ground, hew, impact, implant, impress, imprint, inaugurate,
incept, induct, infix, ingrain, initiate, inscribe, insculpture,
install, institute, introduce, invest, jam, knead, knock out,
launch, lay out, lay the foundation, lick into shape, lift up,
lodge, make, materialize, mint, model, mold, occasion, organize,
originate, oxidate, oxidize, pack, parch, pitch, plant, predicate,
print, produce, put in, put up, pyrolyze, raise, realize, rear,
rest, ring in, root, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, scorch, sculp,
sculpt, sculpture, sear, seat, set, set afloat, set agoing, set in,
set on foot, set up, settle, shape, singe, sire, solder, stamp,
start, start going, start up, stay, stereotype, support, sustain,
swinge, tailor, thermoform, torrefy, turn on, usher in, vesicate,
vest, vulcanize, wedge, weld, work
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