From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], a secondary verb from [en].
See also [fy], [nds], [nl], [de], [da], [nb], [nn] and [sv]; also [en], [sga],
[sga], [la], [grc], [xcl], [ae], [sa], [sla-pro].
For the meaning development compare [sla-pro] > [ru], akin to [sla-pro] >
[ru]; [ru], [ru], akin to [ru], [ru].
*** Pronunciation
- [fīnd] , [en] [when followed by "the, this, their" and similar words]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[finds]
1. To locate
1. [en] To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
2. * [II]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=a. 1667 | author=w:Abraham Cowley | title=The Request
|passage=Among the Woods and Forests thou art FOUND.}}
1. * [chapter=2]
2. [en] To encounter or discover something being search ed for; to locate .
3. * [chapter=10]
4. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-07-20 | volume=408 | issue=8845 | magazine=w:The Economist | title= Welcome to the plastisphere (see http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21581981-what-pollution-some-opportunity-others-welcome-plastisphere) | passage=
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so
readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in
the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick
are already familiar to experts in the field. Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler
FOUND evidence of them on their marine plastic, too.}}
1. [en] To locate on behalf of another.
1. [en] To discover by study or experiment directed to an object or end.
2. [en] To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
3. * [format=full]
4. [en] To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
5. [en] To meet with ; to receive .
6. * [en]
7. [en] To point out .
8. [en] To decide that, to conclude that, to form the opinion that, to consider .
9. * [II]
10. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1647 | author=w:Abraham Cowley | title=The Request
|passage=The torrid zone is now FOUND habitable.}}
1. * [chapter=1]
2. [en] To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
3. * [I]
4. [en] To supply; to furnish.
5. [en] To provide for
6. * [volume=I]
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1892 | author=W. E. Swanton | title=Notes on New Zealand
|passage=the pay is good, the musterer receiving ten shillings a day, and all
FOUND, all the time he is engaged on the "run," even should he be compelled to
remain idle on account of rain or mist.}}
1. [en] To determine or judge .
2. [en] To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=January 25, 2011 | author=Paul Fletcher | work=BBC | title= Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1) (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/league_cup/9371217.stm) | passage=
[Robin van Persie] scored a hat-trick against [Wigan Athletic F.C.] 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.}}
1. [en] To discover game.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1945 | author=w:Nancy Mitford | title=The Pursuit of Love | page=57 | publisher=Penguin | year_published=2010
|passage=They FOUND at once, and there was a short sharp run, during which
Linda and Tony, both in a somewhat showing-off mood, rode side by side over
the stone walls.}}
**** Conjugation
[old=1]
**** Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:deem
**** Antonyms
- [en]
**** Derived terms
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height|barn find|come to find out|even a blind pig can find an acorn|even a
blind pig can find an acorn once in a while|even a blind squirrel can find a
nut once in a while|fault-find|find a friendly bush|find a new gear|find
favour|find God|find in|find it in one's heart|find one's account|find one's
legs|find one's place|find one's tongue|find one's voice|find oneself|find out
the hard way|find religion|find the lady|find the latchstring out|find the
net|find time|find wanting|find work|fuck around and find out|gold is where
you find it|I can't find my ...|find forth|it is easy to find a stick to beat
a dog|scratch a liberal and you'll find a fascist|seek and ye shall find|shed
find|that's for me to know and you to find out|where can I find a hotel|find
another gear|look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence|look as if
one has lost a shilling and found sixpence |find fault| find one's ass with
both hands and a flashlight |find one's feet|find it in oneself|fork found in
kitchen |find one's way|speak as one finds|find the gap,find the
gaps|faultfind|findability|findfault|findless|newfind|outfind|pathfind|refind|unfindability
|find out|find as you type|findspot|please find attached }} _See also_ FINDING
_and_ FOUND
**** Translations
[encounter, locate, discover]
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Ainu: [ain]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Asturian: [ast] , [ast]
- Avar: [av]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [solid object] [chr] , [long object] [chr] , [flexible object] [chr] , [liquid object] [chr]
- Chinese:
- Cimbrian: [cim]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Egyptian: [gmj]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Istriot: [ist]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea] , [kea]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kumyk: [kum]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg] , [ltg] , [ltg]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lombard: [lmo] , [lmo]
- Low German: [nds]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Mizo: [lus] , [lus]
- Mòcheno: [mhn]
- Mongolian:
- Neapolitan: [nap] , [nap]
- Nepali: [ne] , [ne]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norman: [nrf]
- North Frisian: [Mooring] [frr] , [Föhr-Amrum] [frr]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Ojibwe: [find things] [oj] , [find people] [oj]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Polish: [zlw-opl]
- Old Turkic: [otk]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Punjabi:
- Quechua: [qu] , [qu]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm] , [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shor: [cjs]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Somali: [so]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo] , [bo] [honorific]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy] , [fy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zyphe: [zyp]
[trans-bottom]
[discover]
[point out]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Mizo: [lus]
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[decide that]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Egyptian: [gmj]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[determine, judge]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Egyptian: [gmj]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
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into the tables above.--> [checktrans-top]
- Faroese: [1,3] [fo] < !-- was " koma framá " assumed sum-of-parts; if an idiom, use [t] instead of [t-SOP] . see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->, [fo] < !-- was " gera vart við " assumed sum-of-parts; if an idiom, use [t] instead of [t-SOP] . see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->, [2] [fo] , [4] [fo] < !-- was " gera av " assumed sum-of-parts; if an idiom, use [t] instead of [t-SOP] . see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->, [5] [fo] < !-- was " halda at vera " assumed sum-of-parts; if an idiom, use [t] instead of [t-SOP] . see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->, [6, 7] [fo]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] < !-- was " menemukan " assumed inflected form or vocalised spelling; please verify if linking is acceptable. see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->, [id] < !-- was " menemui " assumed inflected form or vocalised spelling; please verify if linking is acceptable. see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
2. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=2001 |author=Chün-fang Yü |chapter=Feminine Forms of Kuan-yin in
Late Imperial China |title=Kuan-yin: The Chinese Transformation of
Avalokiteśvara |url=https://archive.org/details/kuanyinchinesetr0000ychn/
|location=New York |publisher=w:Columbia University Press |ISBN=0-231-12028-1
|LCCN=00-024015 |OCLC=971596367 |page=409
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/kuanyinchinesetr0000ychn/page/409/
|text=One of the most exciting FINDS made by Chinese archaeologists within the
last twenty years are the sites located in Inner Mongolia and Liaoning
Province, particularly the Neolithic Hung-shan culture (c. <small>3500-2500
B.C.E.</small>).}}
1. * [en]
2. The act of finding.
**** Synonyms
- [anything found] [en] , [en]
**** Translations
[anything found]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[act of finding]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Taos: [twf]
- Thai: [th]
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Danish
*** Pronunciation
- [da]
- [da]
*** Verb
[da]
1. [da]
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Old English
*** Verb
[ang]
1. [ang]
** Old Irish
*** Etymology
From [sga] (compare [cy], [cel-gau]).
*** Pronunciation
- [fi0nd] [nominative singular, genitive plural, non-feminine accusative and dative singular, non-masculine vocative singular]
- [sga-IPA] [genitive singular, feminine accusative and dative singular, masculine nominative plural]
*** Adjective
[sga-adj]
1. white
2. bright
3. blessed
**** Declension
[find]
**** Descendants
- [mga]
- [ga]
- [gv]
- [gd]
*** Mutation
[sga-mutation]
*** Further reading
- [22134]