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Someone who is the first to observe something
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Wikipedia
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The Finder is the default file manager and graphical user interface shell used on all Macintosh operating systems . Described in its "About" window as "The Macintosh Desktop Experience", it is responsible for the launching of other applications, and for ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Finder \Find"er\, n. One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily, called also a finder telescope or finder ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, agent noun from find (v.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who comes upon something after searching someone who is the first to observe something [syn: discoverer , spotter ] optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest [syn: viewfinder , view finder ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who finds, or discovers something. 2 An optical device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest
Usage examples of finder.
Finders will be unable, using only the cachet, to pick the boy out from a group of other boys if his race is concealed from them.
I could have felt to it like poor Flitch, the flyman, who was the finder.
Talent manifestations: precogs, finders, affinities, kinetics, telepaths, telem-paths.
Talent manifestations: precogs, finders, affinities, kinetics, telepaths, telempaths.
I that things can be hidden where no Pursuivant, no Rancelman, no finder of any kind can come upon them.
Baldwin to describe the scene he had found the night before, or to summarize the evidence he had been given by the bottler and first finder.
Dinner was practically ready, but Sarge had been spending time in the living room, watching the treasure finder at work.
He double-checks the Magellan Satnav direction finder and confirms they are bang on their coordinates.
And the scut had hit the wiggly lure he had tied on the line, apparently charging full blast from somewhere out of range of the finder.
Team into Cuba by parachute to set up a radio direction finder until he was just about finished with his Special Forces training, two weeks before he was to jump into the hills above the Bahai de Cochinos.
Custom has it that stray bees are the property of the finder, like salvage.
I realized that Camphire really did know who I was and what I did, and that the official town finder of things wandering around asking people if they knew where something was made as strange a picture as Camphire being rational.
Yet, as Rick hastily hooked up the peegee finder on the table in the adjoining wardroom he could feel the stubborn skepticism beneath that gray mask of suffering.
The stud finder, an invaluable tool used to locate the studs hidden behind the wallboards of a house.
My first time out, I beat the witch finders to the gate by about four minutes.