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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
find
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a poll finds sth
▪ Our poll found that 29 percent rated his performance as good.
a species is found somewhere
▪ This species is found only in the Southern Hemisphere.
a study finds sth
▪ The study found that men were more likely to take risks.
a survey finds sth
▪ A survey found that 37 percent of students were born outside the country.
achieve/find fame
▪ Amy Johnson found fame as a pilot.
amazed to see/find/discover sth
▪ Visitors are often amazed to discover how little the town has changed.
an experiment to test/measure/find out sth
▪ We did an experiment to test the acidity of the soil.
astonished to see/find/hear/learn etc
▪ We were astonished to find the temple still in its original condition.
difficult (for sb) to understand/find/obtain etc
▪ That’s rather difficult for me to explain.
▪ He’s finding it difficult to get a job.
disappointed to hear/see/find etc
▪ Visitors were disappointed to find the museum closed.
discover/find a connection
▪ This is the first official investigation to find a connection.
discover/find oil
▪ Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938.
▪ How does a company go about finding oil and getting it from the ground?
discover/find out a secret
▪ He was afraid that someone would discover his secret.
discover/find out sb’s fate
▪ He only discovered his sister’s fate after the war.
discover/find out the extent of sth
▪ We were shocked when we discovered the extent of the fraud.
discover/find the cause
▪ An investigation has failed to discover the cause of the epidemic.
disturbed to find/see/discover/learn etc
▪ She was disturbed to learn he had bought a motorbike.
find a bargain
▪ Investors may be able to find some bargains this year.
find a clue
▪ No one had found any clues as to where the missing girl could be.
find a correlation
▪ Researchers failed to find any correlation between the two.
find a loophole
▪ Some lawyers spend their time simply finding loopholes in existing contracts.
find a niche
▪ He had a hard time finding his niche academically.
find a pulse (=be able to feel a pulse, which shows that someone is alive)
▪ To her relief, she found a pulse.
find a successor
▪ Non-executive director John Evans will act as chairman until a permanent successor is found.
find a way
▪ We must find a way to help them.
find an alternative
▪ The program is directed to finding alternatives to oil and natural gas.
find an answer
▪ The aim is to find a long-term answer to poverty.
find an example
▪ We found examples of people being overcharged by as much as 50%.
find evidence (also obtain evidenceformal)
▪ The authorities failed to obtain enough evidence to convict him.
find happiness
▪ It’s a story about a music composer who unexpectedly finds happiness as a teacher.
find help
▪ To get it finished by tomorrow, we’ll need to find help from somewhere.
find inspiration in sth
▪ As a musician, he finds inspiration in traditional music.
find it hard to do sth
▪ I was finding it hard to concentrate.
find it...incredible that
▪ I find it almost incredible that no one noticed these errors.
find love (=meet someone to love)
▪ I never thought I would find love.
find objectionable
▪ This programme contains scenes some viewers may find objectionable.
find out/discover sb’s identity
▪ The police have yet to discover the victim’s identity.
find out/discover/uncover the truth
▪ She was determined to find out the truth.
find pleasure in (doing) sth
▪ I find great pleasure in reading.
find satisfaction in sth
▪ They found satisfaction in helping others achieve their goals.
find sb dead
▪ A man was found dead in the apartment.
find sb/sth fascinating
▪ I found him quite fascinating.
find shelter
▪ He slept wherever he could find shelter.
find something to eat
▪ I got dressed and went downstairs to find something to eat.
find sth exciting
▪ He found it very exciting to ride a horse at such speed and jump over large obstacles.
find sth impossible
▪ He found it impossible to sleep because of the noise coming from next door.
find sth interesting
▪ I found his talk very interesting.
find sth on a map
▪ I managed to find the village on the map.
find sth useful
▪ Did you find the book useful?
find the courage to do sth
▪ You must find the courage to deal with the problem.
find the nerve to do sth
▪ He couldn't find the nerve to ask her out.
find the strength to do sth
▪ Paula had found the strength to escape from an abusive marriage.
find the strength to do sth
▪ Mary found the strength to climb up onto the upturned boat.
find the word (=succeed in thinking of the right word to use)
▪ She couldn’t find the words to explain how she felt.
find work (=get a job)
▪ It was difficult for them to find work.
find your way
▪ I managed to find my way home.
find yourself in a similar/awkward etc position
▪ The refugee organizations now found themselves in a difficult position.
find...amusing
▪ I don’t find his jokes at all amusing.
find...appealing
▪ It creates an atmosphere which visitors find so appealing.
find...attractive
▪ Women seem to find him attractive.
find/come up with a solution
▪ We are working together to find the best solution we can.
find/discover a cure
▪ Scientists are still hoping to find a cure for the common cold.
find/establish a motive
▪ So far the police have been unable to establish a motive for the murder.
find...funny
▪ If this is your idea of a joke, I don’t find it at all funny.
find/get employment
▪ The men hope to find employment in the construction industry.
find/get your sea legs
▪ I felt awful yesterday. But, thankfully, I’ve found my sea legs now.
find...irresistible
▪ Men find Natalie irresistible.
finds...echo
▪ This idea finds an echo in many African countries.
find/seek sanctuary
▪ Fleeing refugees found sanctuary in Geneva.
find/spot/notice an error
▪ His accountant spotted several errors in his tax return.
find/take comfort in sth
▪ He had been through a similar experience and she found comfort in that.
find/think of/come up with an explanation
▪ Scientists have been unable to find an explanation for this phenomenon.
find/work out a compromise
▪ A temporary compromise was found.
form/found a party
▪ The two politicians broke away from the PDF to form a new political party.
found a city (=start developing a new city)
▪ He founded the city of Baghdad in the 8th century.
found a groupformal (= start a group)
▪ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards founded the group in the early Sixties.
found an empire (=start an empire)
▪ The Persian empire was founded by Cyrus the Great.
found discrepancies
▪ Police found discrepancies in the two men’s reports.
found lacking
▪ The new designs have all been found lacking in some important way.
found wanting
▪ Their security procedures were found wanting.
found...calling
▪ It wasn’t until Durant was in her 30s that she found her calling.
found/establish a company
▪ The company was founded in 1993 by William J. Nutt.
found...guilty
▪ The jury found her guilty of murder.
found...heavy going
▪ I found his latest novel a bit heavy going.
found...innocent
▪ The court found him innocent and he was released.
found...irritating
▪ He was smiling in a way I found very irritating.
found...true vocation
▪ At 17 she found her true vocation as a writer.
gain/find acceptance
▪ This management style gained acceptance in the 1980s.
get/find a job
▪ Eventually, Mary got a job as a waitress.
have/find a good word (to say)
▪ No one had a good word to say for her.
horrified to see/hear/find etc
▪ She was horrified to discover that he loved Rose.
it surprises sb to see/find/know etc
▪ It had surprised me to find how fussy he was about some things.
make/find time to do sth (=do something, even though you are busy)
▪ You need to make time to do things you enjoy.
mortified to hear/find etc
▪ Nora was mortified to discover that her daughter had been out drinking.
overjoyed to hear/find/see etc sth
▪ He was overjoyed to see his mother again.
please find enclosed (=used in business letters to say that you are sending something with a letter)
▪ Please find enclosed an agenda for the meeting.
seek/find fulfilment
▪ The real joy of the priesthood is helping people find personal fulfilment.
seek/find solace in sth
▪ After the death of her son, Val found solace in the church.
strike/achieve/find a balance (=succeed in getting the right balance)
▪ It is necessary to strike a balance between the needs of employers and employees.
▪ Find the right balance between enough exercise and enough rest.
take/find delight in sth (=enjoy something a lot)
▪ He took delight in entertaining guests in his apartment.
the jury finds sb guilty/not guilty
▪ The jury found him guilty of murder.
was nowhere to be found (=could not be found)
▪ We searched everywhere but the ring was nowhere to be found.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
job
▪ Most students find that the first job does eventually come along, and even that elusive Equity card is attainable.
▪ So they sadly boxed up the artifacts and found new jobs.
▪ Therefore, finding a job is akin to winning the pools.
▪ Under the proposed federal regulation, Texas could not give beneficiaries more than two years to find a job.
▪ He finds that job ads placed in prominent papers like the Financial Times serve him well.
▪ Executives in charge of poorly performing companies or departments generally find their jobs in jeopardy.
▪ Not surprisingly, therefore, with youth unemployment so high, some school-leavers with qualifications fail to find jobs.
▪ The relatively recent outbreak of street violence and protests largely reflect the frustration of young people unable to find jobs.
place
▪ I have never had much time for the more esoteric confections you find all over the place.
▪ She could find a place for herself somewhere and eventually did.
▪ Anne knew Nina could easily find a place to kill herself in private.
▪ I said I had found the place not exactly to my taste.
▪ Uncle Kevin was in a big solicitors' practice: they'd find a place for him.
▪ Treasurer for many years, resigned, and no one has yet been found to take his place.
▪ It follows that this account finds no place for a notion of acquired equivalence.
▪ Deborah had taken a lodger the moment she found her place.
solution
▪ So Alexander left the surgery determined that he, himself, was going to find out the solution to his curious problem.
▪ Firstly, the desire to find good integer solutions so that the enumeration tree can be severely pruned.
▪ Constantly he creates situations for which he can find no earthly solution and his characters encounter difficulties beyond their means to control.
▪ Most of all we need action to find a long term solution.
▪ And worry can work wonders in helping you find solutions to entrepreneurial challenges.
▪ We asked Volvo, famed for cars that outlast the hardiest perennials, to find a solution.
▪ The Occupational Therapist is there to try and help you find a solution to your problem.
way
▪ Julia Hirsch discusses wedding photographs of mixed marriages which must find a way of dealing with two sets of cultural conventions.
▪ In Loreto Entally, however, the community soon found a more novel way of distinguishing the two.
▪ Both of these members of the Rubiaceae family are finding their way into good houseplant departments.
▪ Could one of these have found its way into the ear?
▪ Some colours and wood grain effects are beginning to find their way on to the market, although most are still white.
▪ The difference is that some couples find a way to deal with it and move on.
▪ To help them find a way out of the morass they had jumped into.
▪ Hansel might instead have studied landmarks on the way in, to find his way back out.
■ VERB
try
▪ But, of course, that is precisely what one is still trying to find out - what the words are.
▪ We tried to find one of his friends to spend the night, but they all had other plans.
▪ We arc trying to find out.
▪ She must have been feeling her way along, trying to find the house.
▪ Mum did all the work of trying to find something.
▪ It should only be accepted when everything has been tried, and found wanting.
▪ And as no-one takes the paradigm seriously, no-one is troubled to try to find an explanation for the seemingly anomalous data.
▪ Something in me lingered back-I had a panicked minute of argument in which I tried to find some other way.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be nowhere to be seen/found
▪ Our tour guide was nowhere to be seen, so we set off to explore the city alone.
▪ She'd looked everywhere for her glasses, but they were nowhere to be found.
▪ Amelia Otis's name is nowhere to be found.
▪ But David Kent was nowhere to be seen.
▪ He had been searching for Morthen, to protect her from his violent half-brother, but she was nowhere to be found.
▪ I patrolled the town for a while, but they were nowhere to be seen.
▪ The prison director ordered a search, but the prisoner was nowhere to be found.
▪ When a game was on the line, Carr was nowhere to be found.
▪ Willie had looked around for the twins and George, but they were nowhere to be seen.
be to be seen/found/heard etc
▪ A comparable tendency is to be found in the theatre.
▪ A similar situation is to be found in other regions of the world.
▪ Further comments on attaching priorities to different subjects and to different levels of material are to be found in Chapter 3.
▪ He was to be found lurking in the band's dressing room whenever they ventured into Mancunian territory, which was often.
▪ It was to be found in the libraries of other leading Virginians: Lord Botetourt, Thos.
▪ She and two of the Aussies then proceeded to the next floor where guest bedrooms were to be found.
▪ The only reference to sustainable development was to be found in paragraph two hundred and thirteen.
▪ These words, in his own hand, are to be found, framed, inside the hall.
find a home for sth
▪ Enter Arizona Greyhound Rescue, a non-profit group dedicated to finding homes for the retired racers.
▪ Now all that is left to do is find a home for the project.
▪ Some other species are hard to find homes for, even for free.
find your tongue
▪ When she came into the room, I had trouble finding my tongue.
▪ She moved her mouth about a bit to see if she could find her tongue.
find/get religion
▪ Nichols found religion during his fifteen years in prison.
▪ I look forward to watching Rainbow attempt to get religion in hopes of winning fair lady.
▪ I wondered at what point he had got religion.
get/find your bearings
▪ It took her a minute to get her bearings.
▪ Ozzie drank his beer and got his bearings.
▪ Pausing to get his bearings, he blew furiously on his fingers to cool them down.
▪ She stopped for a moment to get her bearings.
▪ She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house.
▪ They are there to allow us to find our bearings and set our calendar.
▪ To get their bearings Allen once more climbed.
▪ Without stopping to get his bearings, he began walking up Broadway along the east side of the street.
know/find out/learn etc sth to your cost
make/find common cause (with/against sb)
see/find out how the land lies
the devil makes/finds work for idle hands
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bodies up to 2,000 years old have been found buried in the peat bogs of central England.
▪ Did you manage to find the house without too much trouble?
▪ Have you found your passport yet?
▪ He wasn't surprised to find the marsh blanketed in a thick fog.
▪ I'd love to learn a foreign language, but I can't find the time right now.
▪ I've looked everywhere, but I can't find my sunglasses.
▪ I found a wallet full of cash and credit cards in the parking lot.
▪ I have a better chance of winning the lottery than of finding a man to marry.
▪ I haven't found the time to read Morrison's latest novel yet.
▪ I really need to find a better job.
▪ If I can find the money, I'll come to the theatre with you.
▪ It's crucial that we find cleaner ways of generating electricity.
▪ It took us half an hour to find somewhere to park.
▪ Jenny found an apartment in Brooklyn.
▪ Luis was gone, and she had no way of ever finding him again.
▪ Medical researchers are determined to find a cure for cancer.
▪ Researchers found that smokers were more likely to get depressed than non-smokers.
▪ Scientists still haven't found a cure for AIDS.
▪ The Blue Moon is easy to find: Get off Highway 78 at 23rd Avenue and go right.
▪ The murder weapon was found outside the house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In a recent survey, the IoD found that 43% of its female members were childless.
▪ One day in January 1950, following a presidential speech, the two found themselves in the same Capitol elevator.
▪ She said she found it shocking that low-level aides in the Clinton White House were allowed to handle such sensitive documents.
▪ We try to find suppliers who still make these things.
▪ With over 30 million subscribers, the main problem is finding a username you might want.
▪ Your goal is to understand these natural tendencies and use your understanding to help her find better ways to cope.
▪ Zen made no attempt to find out what was showing.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
archaeological
▪ The priory guest house displays archaeological finds and a history of the Order.
new
▪ They picked the flowers of the hedgerows and every new find had to be identified in Blackie's.
▪ Dan goes from group to group, checking new finds, pointing out some of the subtleties the kids may have missed.
▪ Their luck has been out. New finds and new technologies have brought more gold into the market.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be nowhere to be seen/found
▪ Our tour guide was nowhere to be seen, so we set off to explore the city alone.
▪ She'd looked everywhere for her glasses, but they were nowhere to be found.
▪ Amelia Otis's name is nowhere to be found.
▪ But David Kent was nowhere to be seen.
▪ He had been searching for Morthen, to protect her from his violent half-brother, but she was nowhere to be found.
▪ I patrolled the town for a while, but they were nowhere to be seen.
▪ The prison director ordered a search, but the prisoner was nowhere to be found.
▪ When a game was on the line, Carr was nowhere to be found.
▪ Willie had looked around for the twins and George, but they were nowhere to be seen.
be to be seen/found/heard etc
▪ A comparable tendency is to be found in the theatre.
▪ A similar situation is to be found in other regions of the world.
▪ Further comments on attaching priorities to different subjects and to different levels of material are to be found in Chapter 3.
▪ He was to be found lurking in the band's dressing room whenever they ventured into Mancunian territory, which was often.
▪ It was to be found in the libraries of other leading Virginians: Lord Botetourt, Thos.
▪ She and two of the Aussies then proceeded to the next floor where guest bedrooms were to be found.
▪ The only reference to sustainable development was to be found in paragraph two hundred and thirteen.
▪ These words, in his own hand, are to be found, framed, inside the hall.
find your tongue
▪ When she came into the room, I had trouble finding my tongue.
▪ She moved her mouth about a bit to see if she could find her tongue.
find/get religion
▪ Nichols found religion during his fifteen years in prison.
▪ I look forward to watching Rainbow attempt to get religion in hopes of winning fair lady.
▪ I wondered at what point he had got religion.
get/find your bearings
▪ It took her a minute to get her bearings.
▪ Ozzie drank his beer and got his bearings.
▪ Pausing to get his bearings, he blew furiously on his fingers to cool them down.
▪ She stopped for a moment to get her bearings.
▪ She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house.
▪ They are there to allow us to find our bearings and set our calendar.
▪ To get their bearings Allen once more climbed.
▪ Without stopping to get his bearings, he began walking up Broadway along the east side of the street.
know/find out/learn etc sth to your cost
make/find common cause (with/against sb)
see/find out how the land lies
see/find out what sb is (really) made of
the devil makes/finds work for idle hands
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ That little Greek restaurant was a real find.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Archaeological sources Hardly a week goes by without a report in the press of some find of archaeological importance.
▪ I reported the find to the landowner and then the Coroner, and subsequently an inquest was held on 13 December 1991.
▪ New finds and new technologies have brought more gold into the market.
▪ The find was announced by a Rutgers University team.
▪ The old pine settle is another treasured find.
▪ They reported the find Wednesday in Nature magazine.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Find

Find \Find\ (f[imac]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Found (found); p. pr. & vb. n. Finding.] [AS. findan; akin to D. vinden, OS. & OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna, Goth. fin[thorn]an; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr. pi`ptein to fall, Skr. pat to fall, fly, E. petition.]

  1. To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.

    Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up.
    --Shak.

    In woods and forests thou art found.
    --Cowley.

  2. To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel. ``I find you passing gentle.''
    --Shak.

    The torrid zone is now found habitable.
    --Cowley.

  3. To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.

    1. To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.

    2. To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.

    3. To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.

    4. To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.

      Seek, and ye shall find.
      --Matt. vii. 7.

      Every mountain now hath found a tongue.
      --Byron.

  4. To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.

    Wages [pounds]14 and all found.
    --London Times.

    Nothing a day and find yourself.
    --Dickens.

  5. To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.

    To find his title with some shows of truth.
    --Shak.

    To find out, to detect (a thief); to discover (a secret) -- to solve or unriddle (a parable or enigma); to understand. ``Canst thou by searching find out God?''
    --Job. xi. 7. ``We do hope to find out all your tricks.''
    --Milton.

    To find fault with, to blame; to censure.

    To find one's self, to be; to fare; -- often used in speaking of health; as, how do you find yourself this morning?

Find

Find \Find\, v. i. (Law) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.
--Burrill.

Find

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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
find

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 Norse finna, Middle Dutch vinden, Old High German findan, German finden, Gothic finþan), originally "to come upon."\n

\nThe Germanic word is from PIE root *pent- "to tread, go" (cognates: Old High German fendeo "pedestrian;" Sanskrit panthah "path, way;" Avestan panta "way;" Greek pontos "open sea," patein "to tread, walk;" Latin pons (genitive pontis) "bridge;" Old Church Slavonic poti "path," peta "heel;" Russian put' "path, way").\n

\nTo find out "to discover by scrutiny" is from 1550s (Middle English had a verb, outfinden, c.1300).

find

"person or thing discovered, discovery of something valuable," 1825, from find (v.).

Wiktionary
find

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 encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.

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WordNet
find

  1. n. a productive insight [syn: discovery, breakthrough]

  2. the act of discovering something [syn: discovery, uncovering]

  3. [also: found]

find

  1. v. 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" [syn: happen, chance, bump, encounter]

  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" [syn: detect, observe, discover, notice]

  3. come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" [syn: regain] [ant: lose]

  4. 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" [syn: determine, find out, ascertain]

  5. 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" [syn: feel]

  6. perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "I want to see results"; "The 1960 saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results" [syn: witness, see]

  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" [syn: line up, get hold, come up]

  8. make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" [syn: discover]

  9. make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" [syn: discover]

  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"

  11. decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty" [syn: rule]

  12. 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" [syn: receive, get, obtain, incur]

  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"

  14. get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" [syn: recover, retrieve, regain]

  15. succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrrow found its mark"

  16. accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself" [syn: find oneself]

  17. [also: found]

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Wikipedia
Find

In Unix-like and some other operating systems, '''find''' is a command-line utility that searches one or more directory trees of a file system, locates files based on some user-specified criteria and applies a user-specified action on each matched file. The possible search criteria include a pattern to match against the filename or a time range to match against the modification time or access time of the file. By default, find returns a list of all files below the current working directory.

The related [[locate (Unix)|locate]] programs use a database of indexed files obtained through find (updated at regular intervals, typically by [[cron]] job) to provide a faster method of searching the entire file system for files by name.

Find (Hidden in Plain View EP)

Find is Hidden in Plain View's debut EP. It was released by the now defunct independent record label DAB Records on March 24, 2001.

Find (disambiguation)

find is a command on UNIX platforms.

Find or finding may also refer to:

Find (command)

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 Unix command [[find]] performs an entirely different function analogous to [[dir (command)|dir]] /s.

Find (SS501 EP)

Find is South Korean boy band SS501's fourth Korean mini-album. It was released after their Japanese maxi single, " Lucky Days''.

The album consists of three songs, instrumental versions of the two songs, and an intro. In addition, the album includes the original and acoustic version of Kim Hyun-joong's first solo track, "Thank You" .

Two songs in the album, "You are my heaven" and "Thank You", became theme songs of MBC's reality TV show, We Got Married, in which Kim Hyun-joong was part of the show with Hwangbo.

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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.