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Finding   /fˈaɪndɪŋ/   Listen
Finding

noun
1.
The act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation.  Synonym: determination.
2.
The decision of a court on issues of fact or law.
3.
Something that is found.  "An area rich in archaeological findings"


Find

verb
(past & past part. found; pres. part. finding)
1.
Come upon, as if by accident; meet with.  Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, happen.  "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 or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.  Synonyms: detect, discover, notice, observe.  "We found traces of lead in the paint"
3.
Come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost.  Synonym: regain.  "I cannot find my gloves!"  Antonym: lose.
4.
Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study.  Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out.  "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
5.
Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds.  Synonym: feel.  "I find him to be obnoxious" , "I found the movie rather entertaining"
6.
Perceive or be contemporaneous with.  Synonyms: see, witness.  "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 something or somebody for a specific purpose.  Synonyms: come up, get hold, line up.  "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.
Make a discovery, make a new finding.  Synonym: discover.  "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
9.
Make a discovery.  Synonym: discover.  "The story is false, so far as I can discover"
10.
Obtain through effort or management.  "We found the money to send our sons to college"
11.
Decide on and make a declaration about.  Synonym: rule.
12.
Receive a specified treatment (abstract).  Synonyms: get, incur, obtain, receive.  "His movie received a good review" , "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
13.
Perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place.  "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room"
14.
Get or find back; recover the use of.  Synonyms: recover, regain, retrieve.  "She found her voice and replied quickly"
15.
Succeed in reaching; arrive at.
16.
Accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation.  Synonym: find oneself.



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"Finding" Quotes from Famous Books



... the impassive face. "It's on the square, Tsang? You don't stand in with anybody below decks? The thing is on the level?" Then finding further elucidation necessary, he added, "No ...
— Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories • Alice Hegan Rice
... throw a light upon the customs of a nation. Thus, in Rome, gold was so far common that avarice was called the love of gold; while in Greece, where silver was the metal most in use, money was called argurion. In the same way it is curiously shown that silver was no longer used in Egypt by our finding that the brass coin of one hundred and ten grains weight, as being the only piece of money seen in circulation, was named ...
— History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12) • S. Rappoport
... shall never succeed in finding you out! Well, he is mistaken, you see—things of this kind are always found out, as you and he might have known. You can't do wrong and live all your life as ...
— Denzil Quarrier • George Gissing
... governor and most urgently petition him to interpose his authority to have the suit remanded to the Council. They asked that no change [in regard to the college] be made, and that he would petition your Majesty on their behalf not to sanction the finding of the said act; or, in event of this being done, to extend the same grace also to the Society of Jesus, in opposition to whose growth it was not right or within reason (with due respect) to have the ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXXVI, 1649-1666 • Various
... sent for the lifeguards to protect parliament. On their arrival the mob left palace-yard and partially destroyed the chapels of the Sardinian embassy in Duke street, Lincoln's inn Fields and the Bavarian embassy in Warwick street, Golden square. The next day was fairly quiet, but on Sunday, the 4th, finding that no measures were taken to enforce order, they sacked other catholic chapels and some houses. By Monday the riots assumed a more dangerous character; the mob passed out of the leadership of religious fanatics and was bent on plunder ...
— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt


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