find > 18 senses| NOUN | 1 | find, discovery, breakthrough | A productive insight |
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| 2 | find, discovery, uncovering | The act of discovering something |
| VERB | 1 | find, happen, chance, bump, encounter | Come upon, as if by accident |
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| 2 | find, detect, observe, discover, notice | Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of |
| 3 | find, regain | Come upon after searching |
| 4 | find, determine, find out, ascertain | After a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study |
| 5 | find, feel | Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds |
| 6 | find, witness, see | Perceive or be contemporaneous with |
| 7 | find, line up, get hold, come up | Get something or somebody for a specific purpose |
| 8 | find, discover | Make a discovery, make a new finding |
| 9 | find, discover | Make a discovery |
| 10 | find | Obtain through effort or management |
| 11 | find, rule | Decide on and make a declaration about |
| 12 | find, receive, get, obtain, incur | Receive a specified treatment (abstract) |
| 13 | find | Perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place |
| 14 | find, recover, retrieve, regain | Get or find back |
| 15 | find | Succeed in reaching |
| 16 | find, find oneself | Accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation |
find > verb 3, possession| Meaning | Come upon after searching. Find the location of something that was missed or lost. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Model | They find the money in the closet |
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| Examples | "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" |
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| Synonyms | regain |
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| Narrower | feel; locate, turn up; fall upon, strike, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain, discover; rout up, rout out |
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| Broader | get, acquire |
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| Contrary | lose |
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| Similar to | find; recover, retrieve, find, regain |
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| Nouns | finder; finder; find |
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find > verb 4, communication| Meaning | After a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE |
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| Examples | "find the product of two numbers" |
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| Synonyms | determine, find out, ascertain |
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| Narrower | gauge; translate; rectify; redetermine; sequence; refract; count, number, enumerate, numerate; admeasure; situate, locate |
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| Similar to | determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn; discover, find |
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| Nouns | finding; find |
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find > verb 8, creation| Meaning | Make a discovery, make a new finding. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Synonyms | discover |
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| Broader | gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise |
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| Similar to | discover, find; determine, find, find out, ascertain; detect, observe, find, discover, notice |
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| Nouns | find; finding; find |
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