find
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
hunting
law
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English finden, from Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path bridge”).
See also West Frisian fine, Low German finden, Dutch vinden, German finden, Danish finde, Norwegian Bokmål finne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish finna; also 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.
For the meaning development compare Proto-Slavic *najьti > Russian найти́ (najtí), akin to Proto-Slavic *jьti > идти́ (idtí); Russian находи́ть (naxodítʹ), нахо́дка (naxódka), akin to ход (xod), ходи́ть (xodítʹ).
Inflected forms:
form: finds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: finding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: found
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fand
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
form: found
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fand
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: founden
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: find
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: find
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: found
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: fand
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
first-person
past
singular
form: find
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: findest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: found
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: fand
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
second-person
singular
form: foundest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: finds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: findeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: found
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: fand
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
singular
third-person
form: find
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: found
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: fand
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
plural
form: find
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: found
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: fand
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
subjunctive
form: find
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: finding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: found
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: founden
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: finds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To locate
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I found this shell on the beach.
She arrived home to find that the house had gone up in flames.
Searching the window for a flint, I found/This paper, thus sealed up.
Among the Woods and Forests thou art found.
I had occasion to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return, much to my surprise, I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station.
gloss: To locate
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I found my car keys. They were under the couch.
I went looking for you in the bed we share, but tonight I found you not there.
It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant.
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field. Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler found evidence of them on their marine plastic, too.
gloss: To locate
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: I found you a new place to live
gloss: To discover by study or experiment directed to an object or end.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: Water is found to be a compound substance.
The researchers found the two variables to be strongly correlated.
gloss: To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to find leisure; to find means
And in thoſe dayes ſhall men ſeke deeth / and ſhall nott fynde hyt / ſhall deſyre to deye / and deeth ſhall flye frõ them.
gloss: To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Looks like he found a new vehicle for himself!
gloss: To meet with; to receive.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The proposal found little support within the government.
Among newer procedures, the Robb and Steinberg contrast visualization of cardiac chambers and venous catheterization of the right heart have found the broadest study and application.
gloss: To point out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He kept finding faults with my work.
gloss: To decide that, to conclude that, to form the opinion that, to consider.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: I find your argument unsatisfactory.
I found it strange {sleeping - to sleep} in your house last night.
I find you passing gentle.
The torrid zone is now found habitable.
“ the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases.
gloss: To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person
to find his title with some shows of truth
gloss: To supply; to furnish.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: to find food for workmen
gloss: To provide for
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: He finds his nephew in money.
They stand idle in the market-place, not because they have not been hired, but because they do not want to be hired; being able to live like the Lazzaroni of Naples, on "Midshipman's half-pay—nothing a day, and find yourself."
the pay is good, the musterer receiving ten shillings a day, and all found, all the time he is engaged on the "run," even should he be compelled to remain idle on account of rain or mist.
gloss: To determine or judge.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The jury finds for the defendant.
gloss: To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Peters finds Jinkins, who is running down the left wing.
Van Persie scored a hat-trick against Wigan on Saturday and should have found the net again after Bendtner found him at the far post but the Dutchman's header rebounded to safety off the crossbar.
gloss: To discover game.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They found at once, and there was a short sharp run, during which Linda and Tony, both in a somewhat showing-off mood, rode side by side over the stone walls.
gloss: Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
pos: noun
examples: One of the most exciting finds made by Chinese archaeologists within the last twenty years are the sites located in Inner Mongolia and Liaoning Province, particularly the Neolithic Hung-shan culture (c. 3500-2500 B.C.E.).
Shepard: How did you get these things to your father?
Tali: Sometimes I left packages at secure drops in civilized areas. Someone on Pilgrimage would see that it was shipped home.
Tali: For very valuable finds, I'd signal home, and Father would send a small ship.
gloss: The act of finding.
pos: noun
Derived words: barn find
befind
come to find out
even a blind pig can find an acorn
even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while
even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while
faultfind
fault-find
findability
findable
find a friendly bush
find a new gear
find another gear
find as you type
finder
find fault
findfault
find favour
find forth
find God
find in
find it in oneself
find it in one's heart
findless
find no bones in
find one's account
find one's ass with both hands and a flashlight
find oneself
find one's feet
find one's legs
find one's place
find one's tongue
find one's voice
find one's way
find out
find out the hard way
find religion
findspot
find the gap
find the gaps
find the lady
find the latchstring out
find the net
find time
find wanting
find work
find your height
fork found in kitchen
fuck around and find out
gold is where you find it
hard-to-find
I can't find my ...
it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog
look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence
look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence
newfind
outfind
pathfind
please find attached
refind
scratch a liberal and you'll find a fascist
seek and ye shall find
shed find
speak as one finds
that's for me to know and you to find out
unfindability
unfindable
viewfinder
where can I find a hotel
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: وَجَدَ
roman: wajada
lang: Armenian
word: գտնել
roman: gtnel
lang: Bulgarian
word: убежда́вам се
roman: ubeždávam se
lang: Czech
word: pokládat za
lang: Danish
word: finde
lang: Dutch
word: vinden
lang: Dutch
word: van mening zijn dat
lang: Egyptian
word: gm-m
roman: gmj
lang: Finnish
word: pitää
lang: French
word: trouver
lang: Galician
word: coidar
lang: Hebrew
word: מצא
roman: matzá
lang: Italian
word: trovare
lang: Latin
word: decernere
lang: Macedonian
word: наоѓа
roman: naoǵa
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: finne
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: finna
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: finne
lang: Portuguese
word: achar
lang: Russian
word: находи́ть
roman: naxodítʹ
lang: Russian
word: найти́
roman: najtí
lang: Slovak
word: považovať
lang: Spanish
word: encontrar
lang: Spanish
word: hallar
lang: Swedish
word: finna
lang: Swedish
word: konstatera
lang: Tagalog
word: nahanap
lang: Turkish
word: bulmak