| 单词 | to find out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto find out to find out [compare out-find v.] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] findOE yfindOE hita1075 befindc1200 out-findc1300 to try outc1325 to find outa1375 to find upc1390 ascryc1400 outwryc1400 inventc1475 vent1611 to hit off1680 discover1762 to scare up1846 to pick up1869 rumble1897 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2090 (MED) Ȝif þei found out þat freke..to bring him bliue bounde fast him to-fore. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iii. l. 4257 Of riche myneris thei serche the entrailles, To fynde out metallis for worldli auauntages. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 851 The noble Pamphila..Habillimentis royall founde out industriously. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Iv They..do searche narrowly..and..at length fynde out the mine. 1611 Bible (King James) Job xi. 7 Canst thou by searching finde out God? View more context for this quotation 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 2 The..Labour, which Men take in finding out of Truth. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 217 (heading) A..proofe that Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd first found out that continent now call'd America. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 308. ⁋5 I was very much surprized..that any one should find out my Lodging. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. vii. 50 As she is a Woman of very great Note, I shall easily find her out . View more context for this quotation 1794 W. Blake Sick Rose in Songs Exper. 2 O rose,..The invisible worm..Has found out thy bed. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary xxiv Whenever Misticot's grave was fund out, the estate..should be lost. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiogr. (ed. 2) 135 The water soon finds out some slight inequalities of surface. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)] seeOE fanda1000 finda1200 kenc1330 lenda1350 agropea1393 contrive1393 to find outc1405 outsearch?a1439 ripec1440 inventc1475 disclose?a1500 fish1531 agnize?1570 discover1585 to grope out1590 out-find1590 expiscate1598 vent1611 to learn out1629 to get to know1643 develop1653 ascertain1794 stag1796 root1866 to get a line on1903 establish1919 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > find solution, solve [verb (transitive)] findOE assoilc1374 soil1382 contrive1393 to find outc1405 resolvea1438 absolvea1525 solute?1531 solve?1541 dissolve1549 get1559 salvec1571 to beat out1577 sort1581 explicate1582 untiea1586 loose1596 unsolve1631 cracka1640 unscruple1647 metagrobolize1653 to puzzle out1717 to work out1719 to get around ——1803 to dope out1906 lick1946 to get out1951 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > contrive, devise, or invent [verb (transitive)] findeOE conceive1340 seek1340 brewc1386 divine1393 to find outc1405 to search outc1425 to find up?c1430 forgec1430 upfindc1440 commentc1450 to dream out1533 inventa1538 father1548 spina1575 coin1580 conceit1591 mint1593 spawn1594 cook1599 infantize1619 fabulize1633 notionate1645 to make upc1650 to spin outa1651 to cook up1655 to strike out1735 mother1788 to think up1855 to noodle out1950 gin1980 the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > find out by investigation [verb (transitive)] > by study or observation findOE to find outc1405 investigate?1495 to find forth?a1500 spell1587 research1588 rifle1614 excudate1831 work1840 approfound1885 c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 883 What sleighte is it..That he nel fynde it out in som manere. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 6191 (MED) For he fonde oute þe cause of euerydel. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Finde out by studye, excudo. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 637 Iohannes Fauscius..first found out the noble science of Imprintyng. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. ii. 14 A man of Tyre, skilfull to..find out euery deuice which shall be put to him. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 406 Who shall..through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way. View more context for this quotation 1676 P. Cust Jrnl. in E. Cust Rec. Cust Family (1898) xiii. 342 This is he who may claime a smal share with Dr. Harvey who added somethinge towards the findinge out the circulatione of the blood. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 543. ¶1 Since the Circulation of the Blood has been found out. 1765 J. Harris Three Treat. (ed. 2) Notes 363 They turned their Eyes to Matters Political, and found out Laws. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxix. 347 He [sc. Quacy] had the good fortune, in 1730, to find out the valuable root known by the name of Quaciæ bitter, of which he was actually the first discoverer. 1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 9 Aug. 352 You are pestered to death to find out the way to..get from place to place. 1861 tr. A. Rodríguez Pract. Christian & Relig. Perfection II. iv. xvii. 319 He triumphed also over Sampson by means of Dalila, and thus found out the sense of the riddle, and the source of his strength. b. transitive. To discover (a fact, some information, etc.). Frequently with interrogative clause or that-clause. ΚΠ a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 987 He fonde out wel, by reknyng of his lif, That she was both his moder and his wif. 1532 T. More Confutacyon Tyndales Answere i. p. x They haue with longe serche founden oute at laste, that monkes, freres, and nunnes, be not bounden by that commaundement at all. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ii. sig. N6 But Talus..At length found out, whereas she hidden lay. View more context for this quotation 1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater ii. i. sig. C3v We shall find out the truth more easilie, Some other way lesse noted. 1640 in R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) II. 468 Finding out how that, by the particular and indirect practiking of the few, the Country, and Cause now depending, does so much suffer, [etc.]. 1654 J. C. Independants Catech. (ed. 2) 4 But is it possible to find out the time of his destruction? 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 179 To find out what Laws are best and most commodous. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 142. ⁋1 She had now found out, that it was Day before Nine in the Morning. 1790 W. Cowper Let. 31 July (1982) III. 401 Though I have seen you but once,..I have found out that you are a scatter-brain. 1844 Bibliotheca Sacra Nov. 727 The style which incites the student to find out the truth for himself. 1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. (1877) I. 38 It aims..at finding out how they may be really united. 1920 M. Mitchell Let. 13 July in Lett. to A. Edee (1985) 100 Find out the price and wire me, toot sweet? 1941 H. L. Mencken Diary 17 July (1989) 155 The pretense that he wanted to find out the truth about the English situation. 1973 T. Crouse Boys on Bus ii. x. 228 The ideal way to find out what was going on inside the White House was to approach it from the outside. 2012 J. Edwards Earth Girl ii. 19 I nearly gave up when I found out all Military kids were trained in unarmed combat. c. intransitive. To make a discovery; to discover a fact, the truth, etc. Also with about. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out or come to know [verb (intransitive)] seec1384 to find out1782 jerry1917 to take a jerry (to)1919 1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. ii. iii. 206 I can't conceive who he is; nobody can find out. 1821 N.Y. City-Hall Recorder Aug. 60/2 It seems that the prisoner sent a Mr. Shelton there to find out about Blair, who had previously been arrested. 1862 G. MacDonald David Elginbrod ii. ii ‘I don't like the pigs—I don't know where they are.’ ‘Well, we must find out.’ 1893 M. E. Mann In Summer Shade xix ‘He has found out about Mrs. Le Grice's bill,’ said Lally to herself. 1913 W. M. Gallichan Like Stars that Fall xi Supposing your husband found out? There might be a devil of a row. 1971 A. Price Alamut Ambush xii. 151 I still don't quite know what makes Razzak tick. You were going to find out about him. 2005 L. Randall Warped Passages 8 The most exciting feature of any extra-dimensional theory that explains the weakness of gravity is that if it is correct, we will soon find out. ΚΠ 1533 T. Elyot Of Knowl. Wise Man iv. f. 76v To dygge vp the Oore, and after cesseth not to trye it from the stones, and with contynual trauayle to fynde out the pure gold. a1658 O. Sedgwick Anat. Secret Sins (1660) v. 212 A Goldsmith will not cast away those lesser raies of gold, though mingled, and (to an inexpert person) confounded with various heaps of drosse and dust: now, he hath an art to find out the little gold, and put aside the drosse. 4. transitive. To detect (someone) in an offence; to detect, discover (a fraud, etc.); to penetrate the disguise of, discover the identity or true character of. Cf. 7. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > detect > detect (in) an imposture to see through ——a1450 to find out1545 detect1581 spot1880 tumble1901 rumble1912 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > detect > detect (a person) in wrongdoing or predicament finda1200 overtakea1325 takec1330 oftakea1382 overgoa1400 deprehenda1535 reprehend1538 to find out1545 surprise?1592 nail1766 pawl1859 bust1960 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > detect seec1300 perceivec1330 deprehend1523 read1561 wind1583 savour1602 subodorate1606 smoke1608 detect1756 to find out1883 1545 J. Bale Mysterye Inyquyte P. Pantolabus f. 28v Is he not founde out for an vngracyouse teacher. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 84 He is good in finding out false play or adulterie done. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 100 If we be not altogether ignorant of our selves, and wilfully blinde,..we can not choose but start and finde out a flatterer. 1650 ‘H. Magomastix’ Strange Witch at Greenwich 8 I think its as hard to finde her out in any Witchcrafts, as to finde out these minotaures, Caniballs and Cormorants. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 51. ⁋7 If at the Catastrophe he were found out for a Traitor. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxiv. 65 Pray don't reveal yourself till he finds you out. a1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1857) 3rd Ser. viii. 108 When once a man has found himself out he cannot be deceived again. 1883 Stubbs' Mercantile Circular 8 Nov. 982/2 The worthlessness of..clayed cottons is now being found out by the consumer. 1914 J. Conrad Let. 28 Jan. (1956) 244 I suppose I must put up with being found out in my innocent malpractices. 1954 M. Connolly Mr. Blue (new ed.) v. 75 It is because most of us are such poseurs to ourselves that we so readily find a poseur out. 2009 Independent 26 May 29/2 For which they will not be condemned, other than by public opinion should they be found out. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > sending items > send items [verb (transitive)] > reach a person (of letter) to find out1583 1583 Answeare Def. Censure Charkes Bk. sig. K3v It may bee a meane in good pollicie, to cause them to bee streightlier looked vnto heereafter, and your selfe to be sought out, seeing their letters can finde you out. 1605 T. Matthew Let. 29 May in A. H. Mathew & A. Calthrop Life Sir T. Matthew (1907) iii. 45 I hope you will acquaint me with your mind, by letter, wch wth direction at Signore Thomaso Yonge,..will find me out. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] affordOE findOE purveyc1300 chevise1340 ministera1382 upholda1417 supply1456 suppeditate1535 perfurnishc1540 previse1543 subminister1576 tend1578 fourd1581 instaurate1583 to find out1600 suffice1626 subministrate1633 affurnisha1641 apply1747 to stump up1833 to lay on1845 to come up with1858 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 45 Finde you out a bedde: For I, vpon this banke, will rest my head. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. vi. 11 Come I haue found you out a stand most fit, Where you may haue such vantage on the Duke He shall not passe you. View more context for this quotation a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggggv/1 He'll finde you out a food that needs no teeth nor stomack. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 304 It was not possible for them to find out funds for so great an expence. < as lemmas |
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