noun : FIND
Source: WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) a productive insight ;
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2. (
) the act of discovering something ;
verb : FIND
Source: WordNet 3.1
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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" ;
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4. (
) 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" ;
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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" ;
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8. (
) make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" ;
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9. (
) make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" ;
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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" ;
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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" ;
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14. (
) get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" ;
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15. (
) succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark" ;
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16. (
) accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself" ;
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