find

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Meaning

1. To locate
2. To locate
3. To locate
4. To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
5. To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
6. To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
7. To meet with; to receive.
8. To point out.
9. To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
10. To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
11. To supply; to furnish.
12. To provide for
13. To determine or judge.
14. To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
15. To discover game.

search for

catch up with

seek for

be after

get hold

be recovered

good bargain

learn of

good deal

declare

gather together

get job

good buy

lay one’s hands on

get together with

meet up with

harvest beans or cotton

rout out

see as

captivate

join up with

find by chance

bring into one’s grasp

happen c chance c bump

to find

not be without

not lack

dig for

not want for

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/faɪnd/

From Middle English finden, from Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną (compare West Frisian fine, Low German finden, Dutch vinden, German finden, Danish finde, Norwegian Bokmål finne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish finna), a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path bridge”), whence *póntoh₁s (compare English path, Old Irish étain (“I find”), áitt (“place”), Latin pōns (“bridge”), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos, “sea”), Old Armenian հուն (hun, “ford”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊), Sanskrit पथ (pathá, “path”), Proto-Slavic *pǫtь).