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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
finding
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
conclusive proof/evidence/findings etc
▪ The investigation failed to provide any conclusive evidence.
poll results/findings
▪ The poll results are very encouraging.
research findings (=what is discovered by a piece of research)
▪ He will present his research findings at the conference.
the results/findings of a study
▪ The results of this study suggest that the drug is effective in over 80% of cases.
▪ His research confirmed the findings of earlier studies.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ And their results challenge some earlier findings.
▪ The earliest finding is the platelet adhesion to collagen fibres followed by aggregation and formation of a platelet plug.
▪ The studies invariably confirmed the validity of earlier findings.
▪ The dimensions of further work which would fill out these early findings and explore further organizational effects are sketched.
▪ One early finding has immediate practical value.
▪ Some of their early findings are very surprising.
▪ Nevertheless, given the earlier findings on investment intensity, this matter did need clarification.
▪ The fact that risky junctions contain generally more information than less risky ones is consistent with earlier findings.
important
▪ Among these hypokalaemia is the most consistent and important finding, and its magnitude correlates well with the concurrent serum theophylline concentration.
▪ The absence of serial correlation in the residuals is an important finding given the requirements of the McCallum technique.
▪ Even so, some important findings were forthcoming.
▪ Another important finding of the study was the confusion and ambivalence which these carers exhibited in relation to role reversal.
▪ The most important laboratory findings are shown in Table 1.
▪ Achievement is one of the most important means of finding satisfaction.
▪ Equally important are the findings that attendance at post-natal clinics is also associated with social class.
main
▪ This chapter provides a brief summary of the main findings of the initial destinations survey.
▪ It should explain what the report is about, its main findings and principal proposals.
▪ This will usually involve summarising the main points, findings and conclusions of the written report.
▪ Summary of main findings and conclusions. 3.
▪ But members of the review team claimed that the remedial measures ignored or misrepresented their main findings.
▪ Table 5.1 summarizes in non-quantitative fashion the main findings of this hypothesis-testing exercise.
new
▪ Organic farmers said the report represented no new findings.
▪ Some of the new findings, though, support previously unsubstantiated folk wisdom about alcohol and caffeine.
▪ These new findings might be called Lamarckism.
▪ The new data or new findings from the research should be integrated into the established theory base.
▪ Various new findings have weakened the position of the sceptics on climate change.
▪ These new findings about caffeine explain some of the ordinary experiences of drinking coffee, tea, and other caffeinated beverages.
▪ Many different disciplines need to be aware of the particular needs of such patients and the implications of new findings.
▪ But parents also have to be smart about interpreting, and acting on, the new findings.
preliminary
▪ Another group has published preliminary findings on alkaline secretion in a balloon occluded segment of human oesophagus.
▪ The researchers are making assumptions based on their preliminary human findings and the changes observed in animals.
▪ Larger numbers of subjects need to be studied to determine the significance of these preliminary findings.
▪ Invariably, the discussions that follow the analysis confirm the preliminary findings.
▪ His preliminary findings and those of the hospital differed.
▪ The preliminary findings about staff ratio and staff contact are of interest.
▪ This is the key preliminary finding of a study conducted by scientists from the University of Newcastle.
▪ This result accords with earlier preliminary findings in man and in laboratory animals.
recent
▪ It may be secondary to the recent findings of reduced somatostatin concentrations in the presence of H pylori infection.
▪ Taking their recent findings into account, they begin to script a different scenario.
▪ More recent findings indicate that hypergastrinaemia associated with pernicious anaemia leads to hyperplasia of fundic endocrine cells.
▪ The recent findings about fibre introduce a new factor into this weight-loss equation.
▪ As I hope to show, Golding anticipates some recent findings of scholars on the nature and function of metaphor.
▪ Amnesty published some recent findings in a report in October 1990.
▪ In fact recent findings make this kind of view untenable, as we will see below.
similar
▪ It is interesting to note here that similar findings have been reported for employed workers.
▪ A 1989 study at Yale University reported similar findings.
▪ A similar finding, however, has been reported recently by Suzuki etal.
▪ Other studies have revealed similar findings.
▪ These reports followed our earlier study in which we reported similar findings in animals with experimentally induced colonic inflammation.
▪ These results are similar to a finding of M.P.D. statistics of sentencing, 1983.
▪ Other authors found similar findings with regard to circulating platelet aggregates.
▪ There are rather similar findings for writing.
■ NOUN
fact
▪ The latter is established partly because of the expertise it can develop, and this expertise is not related solely to fact finding.
▪ An enquiry is first and foremost a fact finding exercise.
▪ He's here as part of a fact finding tour of the region.
▪ For the Home Secretary this was a fact finding visit.
research
▪ Staff and researchers are encouraged to present research findings to conferences both at a national and international level.
▪ Research and literature being published now are based on these new techniques and provide us with greater confidence in research findings.
▪ Introduction Research findings of decision making in child care have revealed some disturbing features in contemporary practice.
▪ The process of reviewing research and research findings will eventually lead you back to the same references.
▪ For example, research findings suggest that children of families under stress are more vulnerable to accidents, such as ingestion of poisons.
▪ The chapter concludes by discussing policy in social work agencies in the light of research findings, legal requirements and developing opinion.
▪ Other research findings also suggest that less intimate ties can, under certain circumstances, be important.
▪ The penalty is believed to be the most severe yet meted out to a scientist for falsifying research findings.
■ VERB
based
▪ A health check, in my opinion, involves a clinical examination and intervention, where appropriate, based on the findings.
▪ The scientists warn that no one should change their behavior based on these findings.
▪ The proposed psychology was, however, to be based on neurological findings.
▪ They said Mr Wicks's decision was based on the flawed findings that the delay was justifiable and there was no prejudice.
▪ The paper was based on the exploratory findings of some 30 interviews he had conducted with radio astronomers and biologists.
confirm
▪ Once again, this confirms the probit findings.
▪ In our second study we sought to confirm our findings that group and individual cognitive therapy were equally effective.
▪ Further studies are needed to confirm these findings.
▪ The data of Jean Ginsburg and Paul Hardiman confirm our findings of declining semen quality.
▪ Generally, our results confirm some of the findings from invitro studies.
▪ More disturbingly, military statistics seemed to confirm the findings on poverty by Charles Booth and Llewellyn-Smith.
▪ Our study confirms that finding but questions its relevance and its implications.
▪ Invariably, the discussions that follow the analysis confirm the preliminary findings.
discuss
▪ The structure overcomes the differentiations between the people who must discuss the findings.
▪ Doug Brown, counsel to the state auditor, also declined to discuss findings of the audit.
▪ A seven-month programme of regional seminars followed, to discuss the findings with architects and their colleagues in the construction industry.
▪ As the sun moved behind a nearby hill, Fonti, Soderberg, and the marble men discussed their findings.
▪ The City Council will discuss the report's findings today at its 5: 30 meeting.
▪ The best results come from working with some one else with whom you can sail and discuss the findings.
▪ Panel members met with President Clinton Friday to discuss their findings and are scheduled to appear before congressional intelligence panels next Wednesday.
explain
▪ The increased concentration and urokinase in malignant tissues may partly explain the finding of increased concentrations of urokinase in malignant ascites.
▪ Thankfully, like Feynman himself, they incorporate many diagrams to explain his findings in quantum electrodynamics and quantum chromodynamics.
▪ Such studies generally refer to wider determinants or concomitants of the national industrial relations variables with which they explain their findings.
▪ Then we invited executives of the companies on-line to explain our findings.
▪ This indicates that residual confounding due to smoking is not likely to explain our findings.
▪ That is, to explain the experimental findings in terms of the subjects' account of the experimental rather than causal processes.
▪ The idea, if it proves correct, explains many seemingly-inconsistent research findings in malaria.
▪ There are several possible interactive processes to explain these findings.
present
▪ A series of research conferences and seminars enables researchers to present reviews and findings to an informed audience.
▪ In 1975, Polivy presented some of their findings to a research conference on obesity.
▪ Staff and researchers are encouraged to present research findings to conferences both at a national and international level.
▪ It will present its findings by early next year.
▪ Two years on, and Roughley's class seem entirely unfazed by the technology and being asked to present some research findings.
▪ Each group of students can present their findings to the class.
▪ Researchers will also be invited to present their ideas and findings directly to ministers and officials at seminars.
▪ Jaelani presented his initial findings to President Suharto on Dec. 26.
publish
▪ Another group has published preliminary findings on alkaline secretion in a balloon occluded segment of human oesophagus.
▪ Official indifference led him to publish his findings in this and scores of other cases.
▪ Amnesty published some recent findings in a report in October 1990.
▪ For those who go on to read postgraduate studies, there is the further problem of publishing any research findings.
▪ She published her findings in exemplary fashion in a lavishly illustrated report that is still consulted today.
report
▪ Remember to analyse each exercise and report your findings to your coach-self or the partner with whom you are doing them.
▪ He was said to have returned to his own room to finish a card game of patience before reporting finding the body.
▪ A 1989 study at Yale University reported similar findings.
▪ A public Inquiry held in July still hasn't reported its findings.
▪ In the meantime he would investigate the matter so he could report his findings to appropriate officials back home.
▪ These reports followed our earlier study in which we reported similar findings in animals with experimentally induced colonic inflammation.
suggest
▪ There are experimental findings to suggest that Wagner's theory needs to be modified in this respect.
▪ Such findings suggest that music depends on both sides of the brain.
▪ This finding suggests close interaction between deaf people belonging to these different groups.
▪ The findings also suggest that recession and growing parental responsibility have resulted in fewer legalized women immigrants working outside the home.
▪ Alphabet soup Four key findings suggest that dyslexia is an organic problem rather than a motivational one.
▪ In conclusion, our findings suggest that H pylori infection may have been predominantly acquired at a young age in the past.
▪ These findings suggest that disability levels help to determine the type of household in which elderly people live.
▪ For example, research findings suggest that children of families under stress are more vulnerable to accidents, such as ingestion of poisons.
support
▪ But if the plea can be supported by a finding of guilt alone, a defendant might escape punishment altogether.
▪ The diagnosis was based on established criteria including a typical endoscopic appearance supported by histological findings.
▪ It does not appear, however, to be supported by the findings of Parry and his colleagues.
▪ This supports the findings of a previous study which described increased oesophageal alkaline exposure in patients with Barrett's oesophagus.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ One of the findings was that many cases of "stomach flu" are caused by improper cooking of food.
▪ The findings show a high level of alcohol abuse among teenagers.
▪ The police force has had its image severely battered by the commission's findings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It reveals shortcomings in research questions, methodological approach and interpretations of findings.
▪ Meanwhile, Karen Youngs has investigated the insurance aspect and her findings are on this page.
▪ Research findings on other modes of political behavior are less extensive and less consistent.
▪ Support for this comes from the finding that faecal protease activity, largely derived from bacteria, is increased threefold in colitis.
▪ Surprisingly, some southern scholars agree with their findings.
▪ The evaluation of the findings of any piece of research must also, of course, take into account its nature and aims.
▪ They have yet to announce their findings a year into the investigation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Finding

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?

Finding

Finding \Find"ing\, n.

  1. That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc.

    When a man hath been laboring . . . in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage.
    --Milton.

  2. Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.

  3. (Law) The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury.
    --Burrill.

    After his friends finding and his rent.
    --Chaucer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
finding

c.1300, "act of discovering" (by chance or after searching; also an instance of this); verbal noun from find (v.). From c.1400 as "what the mind discovers; knowledge attained by human effort" (as distinct from revelation or authority). Late 14c. as "act of sustaining, supporting, or providing the necessities of life; that which is provided by way of sustenance and support." Legal sense "proceedings leading to a verdict in an inquisition, etc.," is from mid-15c. Old English finding meant "invention." Related: Findings.

Wiktionary
finding

n. 1 A result of research or an investigation. 2 (context legal English) A formal conclusion by a judge, jury or regulatory agency on issues of fact. 3 A self-contained component of assembled jewellery. vb. (present participle of find English)

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WordNet
finding

  1. n. the act of determining the properties of something [syn: determination]

  2. the decision of a court on issues of fact or law

  3. something that is found; "the findings in the gastrointestinal tract indicate that he died several hours after dinner"; "an area rich in archaelogical findings"

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Wikipedia
Finding

Jewellery findings are the parts used to join jewellery components together to form a completed article.

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Usage examples of "finding".

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

Often trauma victims are too concerned with finding their family, surviving, grieving deaths, getting away from their abuser, etc.

In finding the abutment reactions some principle such as the principle of least action must be used, and some assumptions of doubtful validity made.

I, an abysmally incompetent layman, with the terrific task before me of finding out how it got there.

Matters were in this situation, when Tom, one afternoon, finding Sophia alone, began, after a short apology, with a very serious face, to acquaint her that he had a favour to ask of her which he hoped her goodness would comply with.

I examined the actress on the stage, and finding that she was not without beauty I expressed a wish to know her.

Clerval, the actor, had been gathering together a company of actors at Paris, and making her acquaintance by chance and finding her to be intelligent, he assured her that she was a born actress, though she had never suspected it.

The fierce Adelantado, finding himself surrounded by six assailants, who seemed to be directing their whole effort against his life, swung his sword in a berserk rage and slashed about him, to such good purpose that four or five of his assailants soon lay round him killed or wounded.

It was shown in the last chapter that the stolons or runners of certain plants circumnutate largely, and that this movement apparently aids them in finding a passage between the crowded stems of adjoining plants.

For a moment he considered finding the admin complex and seeing if they would tell him where Patterson would be living.

Finding himself grievously wounded, and the blood flowing apace, he, with such presence of mind as cannot be sufficiently admired, instead of proceeding to the palace, which was at some distance, ordered the coachman to return to Junqueria, where his principal surgeon resided, and there his wounds were immediately dressed.

Usually it was the adoptees who came to her for help in finding their birth parents.

Taking hold gently of one of her hands, I told her that she had ignited in my soul a devouring flame, that I adored her, and that, unless some hope was left to me of finding her sensible to my sufferings, I was determined to fly away from her for ever.

There I had the pleasure of finding our friends assembled, and among them Josephine, still as affable and amiable as ever.

Nick picked up the agenda for 1979 and skimmed through the pages, finding the first referral to Goldluxe on March 13, 1979.