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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Find \Find\, n. Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by arch[ae]ologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent. 2 The act of finding. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. 2 (context transitive English) To ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computing , find is a command in the command line interpreters ( shells ) of DOS , OS/2 and Microsoft Windows . It is used to search for a specific text string in a file or files. The command sends the specified lines to the standard output device. The ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English findan "come upon, meet with; discover; obtain by search or study" (class III strong verb; past tense fand , past participle funden ), from Proto-Germanic *finthan "to come upon, discover" (cognates: Old Saxon findan , Old Frisian finda , Old ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a productive insight [syn: discovery , breakthrough ] the act of discovering something [syn: discovery , uncovering ] [also: found ]

Usage examples of find.

Rykor found it aberrational that the Emperor could believe that poverty could be cured by putting the poor in uniforms.

I have not found the damsel ere ye turn back, I must needs abide in this land searching for her.

And although, as has been said, a person who is found to be suspected in this way is not to be branded as a heretic, yet he must undergo a canonical purgation, or he must be caused to pronounce a solemn abjuration as in the case of one convicted of a slight heresy.

With a hasty glance toward the ablution facility, Abe raced after the others, to find them by the locked door.

On examination, we found a very varicose or enlarged condition of the left spermatic veins, and gave it as our opinion that the seminal loss was wholly due to this abnormal condition and could only be cured by an operation that would remove the varicocele.

Finally, he points out the practical bearing of the subject--for example, the probability of calculus causing sudden suppression of urine in such cases--and also the danger of surgical interference, and suggests the possibility of diagnosing the condition by ascertaining the absence of the opening of one ureter in the bladder by means of the cystoscope, and also the likelihood of its occurring where any abnormality of the genital organs is found, especially if this be unilateral.

For a long time the abnormality was not believed to exist, and some of the observers denied the proof by postmortem examination of any of the cases so diagnosed, but there is at present no doubt of the fact,--three, four, and five testicles having been found at autopsies.

The author subjected the contents of the stomach of one patient to quite an extensive analysis, without finding any abnormality of secretion.

Ed Garrety had not called there, but we found an abo who had seen the dust streamer of a vehicle heading for the Walgun homestead shortly after sundown.

The third and fourth humans on the island had tried to find their privacy as far from the abo village and the tunnel pool as possible.

As to them of the Dry Tree, though some few of them abode in the kingdom, and became great there, the more part of them went back to the wildwood and lived the old life of the Wood, as we had found them living it aforetime.

I think this must be admitted, when we find that there are hardly any domestic races, either amongst animals or plants, which have not been ranked by some competent judges as mere varieties, and by other competent judges as the descendants of aboriginally distinct species.

In those documents we find the abridgment of the existing right of suffrage and the denial to the people of all right to participate in the selection of public officers except the legislative boldly advocated, with labored arguments to prove that large control of the people in government is the source of all political evil.

In those documents we find the abridgment of the existing right of suffrage, and the denial to the people of all right to participate in the selection of public officers, except the legislature, boldly advocated, with labored argument to prove that large control of the people in government is the source of all political evil.

The three of us went first to check on the pool, and found it gratifying abrim with repulsive brown water, wide and deep enough to have submerged our truck.