n. the act of discovering something

n. a productive insight

n. a user's request for information, generally as a formal request to a database or search engine

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

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

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

v. 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"

v. decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty"

v. make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"

v. perceive or be contemporaneous with; "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"

v. succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark"

v. get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "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"

v. get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"

v. come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "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"

v. come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!"

v. to use the search function allowing to detect a character string in a document