find

The act of discovering something.

A productive insight.

Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study.

“find the product of two numbers”

Make a discovery, make a new finding.

Get something or somebody for a specific purpose.

Decide on and make a declaration about.

“find someone guilty”

Come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost.

“Did you find your glasses?”

“I cannot find my gloves!”

Obtain through effort or management.

Perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place.

Succeed in reaching; arrive at.

Come upon, as if by accident; meet with.

“We find this idea in Plato”

Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.

Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds.

“I find him to be obnoxious”

Perceive or be contemporaneous with.

Get or find back; recover the use of.

Accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation.

“My son went to Berkeley to find himself”

Make a discovery.

Receive a specified treatment (abstract).

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