Quotes about "find"

• Noun: a productive insight

• Noun: the act of discovering something

• Verb: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; examples: "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"

• Verb: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; examples: "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water", "We found traces of lead in the paint"

• Verb: come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; examples: "Did you find your glasses?", "I cannot find my gloves!"

• Verb: establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; examples: "find the product of two numbers", "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"

• Verb: come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; examples: "I feel that he doesn't like me", "I find him to be obnoxious", "I found the movie rather entertaining"

• Verb: perceive or be contemporaneous with; examples: "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"

• Verb: get something or somebody for a specific purpose; examples: "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"

• Verb: make a discovery, make a new finding; examples: "Roentgen discovered X-rays", "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"

• Verb: make a discovery; examples: "She found that he had lied to her", "The story is false, so far as I can discover"

• Verb: obtain through effort or management; examples: "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents", "We found the money to send our sons to college"

• Verb: decide on and make a declaration about; example: "find someone guilty"

• Verb: receive a specified treatment (abstract); examples: "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"

• Verb: perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; examples: "I found myself in a difficult situation", "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room"

• Verb: get or find back; recover the use of; examples: "She regained control of herself", "She found her voice and replied quickly"

• Verb: succeed in reaching; arrive at; example: "The arrow found its mark"

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