Noun:
1: discovery, find, breakthrough a productive insight
2: find, uncovering, discovery the act of discovering something
Verb:
1: happen, encounter, bump, chance, find come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
2: discover, detect, notice, find, observe discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"
3: find, regain come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!"
4: find out, determine, ascertain, find 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"
5: find, feel come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining"
6: find, witness, see perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"
7: get hold, come up, line up, find get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"
8: discover, find make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
9: discover, find make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"
10: find 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"
11: find, rule decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty"
12: find, incur, obtain, get, receive receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
13: find 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"
14: regain, find, recover, retrieve get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
15: find succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark"
16: find oneself, find accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"