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find
Overview of noun find
The noun find has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. discovery, breakthrough, find -- (a productive insight)
2. discovery, find, uncovering -- (the act of discovering something)
Overview of verb find
The verb find has 16 senses (first 13 from tagged texts)
1. (159) find, happen, chance, bump, encounter -- (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")
2. (151) detect, observe, find, discover, notice -- (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")
3. (86) find, regain -- (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!")
4. (60) determine, find, find out, ascertain -- (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")
5. (57) find, feel -- (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")
6. (45) witness, find, see -- (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")
7. (42) line up, get hold, come up, find -- (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")
8. (34) discover, find -- (make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle")
9. (29) discover, find -- (make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover")
10. (18) find -- (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. (16) rule, find -- (decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty")
12. (13) receive, get, find, obtain, incur -- (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")
13. (11) find -- (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. recover, retrieve, find, regain -- (get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly")
15. find -- (succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark")
16. find oneself, find -- (accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun find
2 senses of find
Sense 1
discovery, breakthrough, find
=> insight, brainstorm, brainwave
=> understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy
=> knowing
=> higher cognitive process
=> process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
discovery, find, uncovering
=> deed, feat, effort, exploit
=> accomplishment, achievement
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun find
1 of 2 senses of find
Sense 2
discovery, find, uncovering
=> detection, catching, espial, spying, spotting
=> self-discovery
=> breakthrough
=> determination, finding
=> rediscovery
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun find
2 senses of find
Sense 1
discovery, breakthrough, find
=> insight, brainstorm, brainwave
Sense 2
discovery, find, uncovering
=> deed, feat, effort, exploit
Antonyms of noun find
Member Holonyms of noun find
Substance Holonyms of noun find
Part Holonyms of noun find
Member Meronyms of noun find
Substance Meronyms of noun find
Part Meronyms of noun find
Meronyms of noun find
Holonyms of noun find
Attributes of noun find
Derived Forms of noun find
2 senses of find
Sense 1
discovery, breakthrough, find
RELATED TO>(verb) find#8
=> discover, find
RELATED TO>(verb) find#4
=> determine, find, find out, ascertain
Sense 2
discovery, find, uncovering
RELATED TO>(verb) find#8
=> discover, find
RELATED TO>(verb) find#9
=> discover, find
RELATED TO>(verb) find#3
=> find, regain
RELATED TO>(verb) find#2
=> detect, observe, find, discover, notice
RELATED TO>(verb) find#1
=> find, happen, chance, bump, encounter
Domain of noun find
Domain Terms of noun find
Familiarity of noun find
find used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun find
2 senses of find
Sense 1
discovery, breakthrough, find
> insight, brainstorm, brainwave
=> light
=> revelation
=> discovery, breakthrough, find
=> flash
Sense 2
discovery, find, uncovering
> deed, feat, effort, exploit
=> acquiring, getting
=> causing, causation
=> delivery, obstetrical delivery
=> departure, going, going away, leaving
=> derring-do
=> discovery, find, uncovering
=> disposal, disposition
=> hit
=> implementation, effectuation
=> egress, egression, emergence
=> equalization, equalisation, leveling
=> exhumation, disinterment, digging up
=> mitzvah, mitsvah
=> propulsion, actuation
=> rally, rallying
=> recovery, retrieval
=> running away
=> stunt
=> touch, touching
=> tour de force
Meronyms of noun find
2 senses of find
Holonyms of noun find
Grep of noun find
find
finder
finder's fee
finding
finding of fact
finding of law
findings
Antonyms of verb find
1 of 16 senses of find
Sense 3
find, regain
Antonym of lose (Sense 5)
=>lose
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb find
16 senses of find
Sense 1
find, happen, chance, bump, encounter
Sense 2
detect, observe, find, discover, notice
=> sight
=> perceive, comprehend
Sense 3
find, regain
=> get, acquire
Sense 4
determine, find, find out, ascertain
Sense 5
find, feel
=> reason, reason out, conclude
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate
Sense 6
witness, find, see
=> experience, undergo, see, go through
=> participate, take part
=> act, move
Sense 7
line up, get hold, come up, find
=> get, acquire
Sense 8
discover, find
=> gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
=> create by mental act, create mentally
=> make, create
Sense 9
discover, find
=> learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see
Also See> find out#2
Sense 10
find
=> get, acquire
Sense 11
rule, find
=> pronounce, label, judge
=> declare, adjudge, hold
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate
Sense 12
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> change
Sense 13
find
=> perceive, comprehend
Sense 14
recover, retrieve, find, regain
=> get, acquire
Sense 15
find
=> reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain
Sense 16
find oneself, find
=> mature, maturate, grow
=> develop
=> grow
=> increase
=> change magnitude
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb find
7 of 16 senses of find
Sense 2
detect, observe, find, discover, notice
=> find out, catch out
=> sense
=> instantiate
=> trace
=> see
Sense 3
find, regain
=> feel
=> locate, turn up
=> fall upon, strike, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain, discover
=> rout up, rout out
Sense 4
determine, find, find out, ascertain
=> gauge
=> translate
=> rectify
=> redetermine
=> sequence
=> refract
=> count, number, enumerate, numerate
=> admeasure
=> situate, locate
Sense 6
witness, find, see
=> catch
Sense 9
discover, find
=> rake up
=> ferret out, ferret
Sense 12
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> take
Sense 14
recover, retrieve, find, regain
=> access
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb find
16 senses of find
Sense 1
find, happen, chance, bump, encounter
Sense 2
detect, observe, find, discover, notice
=> sight
Sense 3
find, regain
=> get, acquire
Sense 4
determine, find, find out, ascertain
Sense 5
find, feel
=> reason, reason out, conclude
Sense 6
witness, find, see
=> experience, undergo, see, go through
Sense 7
line up, get hold, come up, find
=> get, acquire
Sense 8
discover, find
=> gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
Sense 9
discover, find
=> learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see
Also See> find out#2
Sense 10
find
=> get, acquire
Sense 11
rule, find
=> pronounce, label, judge
Sense 12
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> change
Sense 13
find
=> perceive, comprehend
Sense 14
recover, retrieve, find, regain
=> get, acquire
Sense 15
find
=> reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain
Sense 16
find oneself, find
=> mature, maturate, grow
'Cause To' of verb find
Derived Forms of verb find
8 of 16 senses of find
Sense 1
find, happen, chance, bump, encounter
RELATED TO>(noun) find#2
=> discovery, find, uncovering
RELATED TO>(noun) finder#2
=> finder, discoverer, spotter
Sense 2
detect, observe, find, discover, notice
RELATED TO>(noun) find#2
=> discovery, find, uncovering
RELATED TO>(noun) finder#2
=> finder, discoverer, spotter
RELATED TO>(noun) finding#3
=> finding
RELATED TO>(noun) finding#1
=> determination, finding
Sense 3
find, regain
RELATED TO>(noun) finder#1
=> finder
RELATED TO>(noun) find#2
=> discovery, find, uncovering
RELATED TO>(noun) finder#2
=> finder, discoverer, spotter
Sense 4
determine, find, find out, ascertain
RELATED TO>(noun) find#1
=> discovery, breakthrough, find
RELATED TO>(noun) finding#3
=> finding
Sense 6
witness, find, see
RELATED TO>(noun) finder#2
=> finder, discoverer, spotter
Sense 8
discover, find
RELATED TO>(noun) find#1
=> discovery, breakthrough, find
RELATED TO>(noun) find#2
=> discovery, find, uncovering
RELATED TO>(noun) finding#3
=> finding
Sense 9
discover, find
RELATED TO>(noun) find#2
=> discovery, find, uncovering
Sense 11
rule, find
RELATED TO>(noun) finding#2
=> finding
Domain of verb find
Domain Terms of verb find
Familiarity of verb find
find used as a verb is familiar (polysemy count =16)
Sample Sentences of verb find
16 senses of find
Sense 1
find, happen, chance, bump, encounter
EX: They find the money in the closet
Sense 2
detect, observe, find, discover, notice
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 3
find, regain
EX: They find the money in the closet
Sense 4
determine, find, find out, ascertain
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE
Sense 5
find, feel
EX: They find that there was a traffic accident
Sense 6
witness, find, see
*> Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
*> Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 7
line up, get hold, come up, find
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 8
discover, find
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 9
discover, find
*> Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 10
find
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 11
rule, find
*> Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
*> Somebody ----s PP
Sense 12
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
*> Something ----s
Sense 13
find
*> Somebody ----s somebody PP
Sense 14
recover, retrieve, find, regain
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s something from somebody
Sense 15
find
*> Something ----s something
Sense 16
find oneself, find
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb find
14 of 16 senses of find
Sense 2
detect, observe, find, discover, notice
> sight
=> descry, spot, espy, spy
=> detect, observe, find, discover, notice
Sense 3
find, regain
> get, acquire
=> isolate
=> win back, get back
=> press out, express, extract
=> capture, catch
=> come by
=> buy, purchase
=> lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
=> receive, have
=> turn
=> buy
=> find
=> glom
=> enter upon, come upon, luck into
=> line up, get hold, come up, find
=> accept, take, have
=> obtain
=> recover, retrieve, find, regain
=> catch
=> recover, recoup, recuperate
=> reclaim, repossess
=> find, regain
=> acquire, win, gain
=> gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in
=> earn, garner
=> profit, gain, benefit
=> partake, share, partake in
=> preempt
=> preempt
=> collect, pick up, gather up, call for
=> inherit, come into
=> borrow
=> pick up
=> get
=> poll
Sense 5
find, feel
> reason, reason out, conclude
=> induce
=> deduce, infer, deduct, derive
=> syllogize, syllogise
=> find, feel
=> deduce, infer
=> gather
=> generalize, generalise, extrapolate, infer
Sense 6
witness, find, see
> experience, undergo, see, go through
=> know, experience, live
=> suffer, endure
=> suffer, meet
=> feel
=> enjoy
=> witness, find, see
=> come
Sense 7
line up, get hold, come up, find
> get, acquire
=> isolate
=> win back, get back
=> press out, express, extract
=> capture, catch
=> come by
=> buy, purchase
=> lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
=> receive, have
=> turn
=> buy
=> find
=> glom
=> enter upon, come upon, luck into
=> line up, get hold, come up, find
=> accept, take, have
=> obtain
=> recover, retrieve, find, regain
=> catch
=> recover, recoup, recuperate
=> reclaim, repossess
=> find, regain
=> acquire, win, gain
=> gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in
=> earn, garner
=> profit, gain, benefit
=> partake, share, partake in
=> preempt
=> preempt
=> collect, pick up, gather up, call for
=> inherit, come into
=> borrow
=> pick up
=> get
=> poll
Sense 8
discover, find
> gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
=> design
=> preconceive
=> discover, find
Sense 9
discover, find
> learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see
=> get the goods
=> wise up
=> trip up, catch
=> ascertain
=> discover, find
Sense 10
find
> get, acquire
=> isolate
=> win back, get back
=> press out, express, extract
=> capture, catch
=> come by
=> buy, purchase
=> lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
=> receive, have
=> turn
=> buy
=> find
=> glom
=> enter upon, come upon, luck into
=> line up, get hold, come up, find
=> accept, take, have
=> obtain
=> recover, retrieve, find, regain
=> catch
=> recover, recoup, recuperate
=> reclaim, repossess
=> find, regain
=> acquire, win, gain
=> gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in
=> earn, garner
=> profit, gain, benefit
=> partake, share, partake in
=> preempt
=> preempt
=> collect, pick up, gather up, call for
=> inherit, come into
=> borrow
=> pick up
=> get
=> poll
Sense 11
rule, find
> pronounce, label, judge
=> acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate, exculpate
=> convict
=> nasalize, nasalise
=> tout
=> rule, find
=> qualify
=> disqualify
=> intonate, intone
Sense 12
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Sense 13
find
> perceive, comprehend
=> feel, sense
=> apperceive
=> pick up, receive
=> divine
=> hallucinate
=> misperceive
=> catch, pick up
=> dream
=> hurt, ache, suffer
=> smell
=> touch
=> see
=> sight
=> hear
=> listen
=> taste
=> find
=> see through
Sense 14
recover, retrieve, find, regain
> get, acquire
=> isolate
=> win back, get back
=> press out, express, extract
=> capture, catch
=> come by
=> buy, purchase
=> lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
=> receive, have
=> turn
=> buy
=> find
=> glom
=> enter upon, come upon, luck into
=> line up, get hold, come up, find
=> accept, take, have
=> obtain
=> recover, retrieve, find, regain
=> catch
=> recover, recoup, recuperate
=> reclaim, repossess
=> find, regain
=> acquire, win, gain
=> gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in
=> earn, garner
=> profit, gain, benefit
=> partake, share, partake in
=> preempt
=> preempt
=> collect, pick up, gather up, call for
=> inherit, come into
=> borrow
=> pick up
=> get
=> poll
Sense 15
find
> reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain
=> catch up
=> scale, surmount
=> breast
=> access, get at
=> peak
=> bottom out
=> top out
=> summit
=> top
=> make
=> find
=> culminate
=> get through, come through
=> ground, run aground
Sense 16
find oneself, find
> mature, maturate, grow
=> ripen
=> find oneself, find
=> grow up
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb find
Sense 2
detect, observe, find, discover, notice
=> sight
Sense 4
determine, find, find out, ascertain
Sense 8
discover, find
=> gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
Sense 9
discover, find
=> learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see
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Sense 3
find, regain
=> get, acquire
Sense 10
find
=> get, acquire
Sense 14
recover, retrieve, find, regain
=> get, acquire
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Sense 5
find, feel
=> reason, reason out, conclude
Sense 11
rule, find
=> pronounce, label, judge
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Sense 6
witness, find, see
=> experience, undergo, see, go through
Sense 13
find
=> perceive, comprehend
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Sense 1
find, happen, chance, bump, encounter
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Sense 7
line up, get hold, come up, find
=> get, acquire
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Sense 12
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> change
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Sense 15
find
=> reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain
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Sense 16
find oneself, find
=> mature, maturate, grow
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Grep of verb find
find
find fault
find oneself
find out
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