April 2009: FIND

Definitions of FIND:

• noun: the act of discovering something
• noun: a productive insight
• verb: perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
• verb: obtain through effort or management
• verb: come upon, as if by accident; meet with

Example: “We find this idea in Plato”

• verb: come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
  

Example: “Did you find your glasses?”

• verb: come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
  

Example: “I find him to be obnoxious”

• verb: succeed in reaching; arrive at
• verb: perceive or be contemporaneous with
• verb: accept and make use of one’s personality, abilities, and situation
  

Example: “My son went to Berkeley to find himself”

• verb: make a discovery
• verb: after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
  

Example: “Find the product of two numbers”

• verb: decide on and make a declaration about
  

Example: “Find someone guilty”

• verb: make a discovery, make a new finding
• verb: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
• verb: get or find back; recover the use of
• verb: receive a specified treatment (abstract)
  

Example: “These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation”

• verb: get something or somebody for a specific purpose

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