find

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From Old English findan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną (compare Dutch vinden, German finden, Swedish finna), a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pontHo- (compare Old Irish étain 'I find', áitt 'place', Latin pōns 'bridge', Ancient Greek póntos 'sea', Old Armenian հուն (hun, ford), Avestan pantā (gen. paþō), Sanskrit pánthās 'path').

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"Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus", a painting by John William Waterhouse

find (third-person singular simple present finds, present participle finding, simple past found or fand (dialectal), past participle found or (archaic) founden)

  1. (transitive) To encounter, to discover something searched for.
    Project Gutenberg finds that Find is the 190th most important word in the English language.
    I found my car keys -- they were under the couch.
    • 2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Ipswich (agg 3 - 1)”, BBC:
      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.
  2. (transitive) To point out.
    He kept finding faults with my work.
  3. (transitive) To decide that, to form the opinion that.
    I find your argument unsatisfactory.
  4. (intransitive) To determine or judge.
    The jury finds for the defendant.

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See also finding and found

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find (plural finds)

  1. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
  2. The act of finding.

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  • IPA: /fend/, [fenˀ]

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find

  1. imperative of finde