Find

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.

To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.

To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.

To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.

To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.

To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.

To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.

To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.

To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.

To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.

Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.

accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"

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"