eng: find - UWN/MENTA

eng: find

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Meaning
means	(noun) a productive insight discovery, breakthrough, find
means	(noun) the act of discovering something find, discovery, uncovering
means	(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" encounter, find, chance, happen, bump
means	(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" discover, detect, find, observe, notice
means	(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!" find, regain
means	(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" ascertain, find out, find, determine
means	(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" feel, find
means	(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" witness, find, see
means	(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" find, come up, get hold, line up
means	(verb) make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" find, discover
means	(verb) make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" find, discover
means	(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" find
means	(verb) decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty" find, rule
means	(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" incur, get, receive, find, obtain
means	(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" find
means	(verb) get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" find, regain, recover, retrieve
means	(verb) succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark" find
means	(verb) accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself" find oneself, find
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