find

find
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noun
ADJECTIVE
good, great, real
exciting, interesting, remarkable, spectacular

The letters were a real find.

big, important, major, significant
rare
new, recent
lucky

A lucky find is telling us a lot about life 10 000 years ago.

unexpected
archaeological, fossil
medieval, prehistoric
VERB + FIND
discover, make, unearth (esp. BrE)

prehistoric finds made in an unexplored cave

yield

To date the site has yielded many interesting finds.

report

I reported my find to the landowner.

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verb
Find is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑archaeologist, ↑autopsy, ↑census, ↑committee, ↑court, ↑enquiry, ↑experiment, ↑hand, ↑inquest, ↑judge, ↑poll, ↑report, ↑research, ↑researcher, ↑scientist, ↑study, ↑survey, ↑tongue, ↑trial, ↑tribunal
Find is used with these nouns as the object: ↑acceptance, ↑accommodation, ↑advert, ↑advertisement, ↑ally, ↑alternative, ↑amusement, ↑answer, ↑apartment, ↑association, ↑average, ↑balance, ↑bargain, ↑bearing, ↑blog, ↑body, ↑bug, ↑buyer, ↑cab, ↑cause, ↑client, ↑clue, ↑comfort, ↑common ground, ↑companionship, ↑compromise, ↑connection, ↑consistency, ↑consolation, ↑contentment, ↑corpse, ↑correlation, ↑courage, ↑cover, ↑culprit, ↑cure, ↑damp, ↑date, ↑defect, ↑delight, ↑deposit, ↑destiny, ↑diameter, ↑difference, ↑discrepancy, ↑echo, ↑employment, ↑encouragement, ↑enjoyment, ↑error, ↑escape, ↑evidence, ↑example, ↑excuse, ↑explanation, ↑explosive, ↑expression, ↑faith, ↑fame, ↑fascination, ↑fault, ↑favour, ↑fingerprint, ↑first, ↑fix, ↑flat, ↑flaw, ↑food, ↑foothold, ↑footing, ↑footprint, ↑forgiveness, ↑form, ↑formula, ↑fortune, ↑freedom, ↑friend, ↑fulfilment, ↑fun, ↑galaxy, ↑girlfriend, ↑god, ↑gold, ↑happiness, ↑haven, ↑help, ↑home, ↑hope, ↑hotel, ↑husband, ↑identity, ↑improvement, ↑inaccuracy, ↑incidence, ↑inconsistency, ↑indication, ↑information, ↑inspiration, ↑intruder, ↑job, ↑joy, ↑justification, ↑killer, ↑lead, ↑leak, ↑link, ↑location, ↑loophole, ↑love, ↑lover, ↑lump, ↑mark, ↑match, ↑mate, ↑material, ↑meaning, ↑merit, ↑motel, ↑motive, ↑murderer, ↑nerve, ↑nest, ↑niche, ↑occupation, ↑oil, ↑opportunity, ↑outlet, ↑owner, ↑paradise, ↑parallel, ↑partner, ↑path, ↑peace, ↑perfection, ↑pleasure, ↑position, ↑precedent, ↑premises, ↑pretext, ↑proof, ↑publisher, ↑pulse, ↑ratio, ↑reason, ↑reassurance, ↑recipe, ↑recruit, ↑redemption, ↑reference, ↑refuge, ↑relationship, ↑relative, ↑relief, ↑religion, ↑remains, ↑remedy, ↑replacement, ↑resistance, ↑resolution, ↑rest, ↑restroom, ↑result, ↑rhythm, ↑role, ↑romance, ↑room, ↑root, ↑route, ↑safety, ↑salvation, ↑sanctuary, ↑satisfaction, ↑saving, ↑scapegoat, ↑seat, ↑selection, ↑self, ↑serenity, ↑shelter, ↑short cut, ↑sign, ↑similarity, ↑site, ↑skeleton, ↑solace, ↑solitude, ↑solution, ↑source, ↑specimen, ↑sponsor, ↑sponsorship, ↑spot, ↑strength, ↑style, ↑success, ↑successor, ↑sum, ↑support, ↑survivor, ↑sympathy, ↑talent, ↑target, ↑taxi, ↑tenant, ↑thread, ↑time, ↑touch, ↑trace, ↑trail, ↑treasure, ↑use, ↑variation, ↑venue, ↑violation, ↑vocation, ↑voice, ↑volunteer, ↑way, ↑website, ↑word, ↑work, ↑wreck, ↑yearning

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  • find — [faɪnd] verb found PTandPP [faʊnd] [transitive] 1. if you find work or employment, you get a job or some work. If you find someone to do a job, you employ them to do that job: • Karen found a job with a major travel company after she completed… …   Financial and business terms

  • find — find  утилита поиска файлов, используемая в UNIX‐подобных операционных системах. Может производить поиск в одном или нескольких каталогах с использованием критериев, заданных пользователем. По умолчанию, find возвращает все файлы в рабочей… …   Википедия

  • Find — (zu deutsch finde) ist der Name eines UNIX Programm zum Auffinden von Dateien und Verzeichnissen. Das Programm durchsucht bei jeder Suchanfrage direkt das Dateisystem. find gestattet eine Verfeinerung der Suche nach zahlreichen Kriterien wie etwa …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Find — утилита поиска файлов, используемая в UNIX‐подобных операционных системах. Может производить поиск в одной или нескольких директориях с использованием критериев, заданных пользователем. По умолчанию, find возвращает все файлы после текущего в… …   Википедия

  • find — (zu deutsch finde) ist der Name eines UNIX Programms zum Auffinden von Dateien und Verzeichnissen. Das Programm durchsucht bei jeder Suchanfrage direkt das Dateisystem. find gestattet eine Verfeinerung der Suche nach zahlreichen Kriterien wie… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Find — (f[imac]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Found} (found); p. pr. & vb. n. {Finding}.] [AS. findan; akin to D. vinden, OS. & OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna, Goth. fin[thorn]an; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr. pi ptein to fall,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Find — est une commande UNIX permettant de chercher des fichiers dans un ou plusieurs répertoires selon des critères définis par l utilisateur. Par défaut, find retourne tous les fichiers contenus dans l arborescence du répertoire courant. find permet… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • find — est une commande UNIX permettant de chercher des fichiers dans un ou plusieurs répertoires selon des critères définis par l utilisateur. Par défaut, find retourne tous les fichiers contenus dans l arborescence du répertoire courant. find permet… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • find — [fīnd] vt. found, finding [ME finden < OE findan, akin to Ger finden, Goth finthan < IE base * pent , to walk, happen upon, find > L pons, a plank causeway, bridge] 1. to happen on; come upon; meet with; discover by chance 2. to get by… …   English World dictionary

  • Find — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda find es un comando común en sistemas Unix que se utiliza para encontrar archivos en un determinado directorio a partir de diversas reglas de búsqueda, tales como nombre exacto de archivo, fecha de creación, tamaño,… …   Wikipedia Español

  • find — ► VERB (past and past part. found) 1) discover by chance or deliberately. 2) recognize or discover to be present or to be the case. 3) ascertain by research or calculation. 4) Law (of a court) officially declare to be the case. 5) (find against… …   English terms dictionary

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