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Verb: found fawnd- Set up or found
- establish, set up, launch - Set up or lay the groundwork for
- establish, plant, constitute, institute - Use as a basis for; found on
- establish, base, ground Noun: found fawnd- Food and lodging provided in addition to money
"they worked for $30 and found" Adjective: found fawnd- Come upon unexpectedly or after searching
"found art"; "the lost-and-found department" Verb: find (found) fInd- Come upon, as if by accident; meet with
"We find this idea in Plato" - happen, chance, bump, encounter - Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
"We found traces of lead in the paint" - detect, observe, discover, notice - Come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
"Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" - regain - Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
"find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" - determine, find out, ascertain - Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
"I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" - feel - Perceive or be contemporaneous with
"We found Republicans winning the offices" - witness, see - Get something or somebody for a specific purpose
"I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener" - line up, get hold, come up - Make a discovery, make a new finding
"Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" - discover - Make a discovery
"She found that he had lied to her" - discover - Obtain through effort or management
"She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college" - Decide on and make a declaration about
"find someone guilty" - rule - Receive a specified treatment (abstract)
"These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation" - receive, get, obtain, incur - Perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
"I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room" - Get or find back; recover the use of
"She found her voice and replied quickly" - recover, retrieve, regain - Succeed in reaching; arrive at
"The arrow found its mark" - Accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
"My son went to Berkeley to find himself" - find oneself
Derived forms: founding, founds, founded See also: find out, finder, finding, foundation, founder, founding, recovered, saved Type of: acquire, arrive at, attain, change, comprehend, conceive, conceptualise [Brit], conceptualize, conclude, discover, earnings, experience, find out, gain, gestate, get, get a line, get wind, get word, go through, grow, hear, hit, initiate, judge, label, learn, make, maturate, mature, open, open up, pay, perceive, pick up, pioneer, pronounce, reach, reason, reason out, remuneration, salary, see, sight, spy, wage Antonym: lose, lost Encyclopedia: Find Found |