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Results for: "find"

Translating from English to Greek

Translations:

find — encounter, locate, discover
→ βρίσκω (vrísko)
find — anything found
→ εύρημα (évrima) n

More translations:

find
→ βρίσκω τυχαία
find
→ ανακαλύπτω, διαπιστώνω
find
→ θεωρώ
find
→ εύρημα

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (2)

1. a productive insight;
[syn: discovery, breakthrough, find]

2. the act of discovering something;
[syn: discovery, find, uncovering]


VERB (16)

1. come upon, as if by accident; meet with;
- Example: "We find this idea in Plato"
- Example: "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"
- Example: "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
[syn: find, happen, chance, bump, encounter]

2. discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of;
- Example: "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"
- Example: "We found traces of lead in the paint"
[syn: detect, observe, find, discover, notice]

3. come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost;
- Example: "Did you find your glasses?"
- Example: "I cannot find my gloves!"
[syn: find, regain]

4. establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study;
- Example: "find the product of two numbers"
- Example: "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
[syn: determine, find, find out, ascertain]

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

6. perceive or be contemporaneous with;
- Example: "We found Republicans winning the offices"
- Example: "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"
- Example: "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"
- Example: "I want to see results"
[syn: witness, find, see]

7. get something or somebody for a specific purpose;
- Example: "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"
- Example: "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"
- Example: "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"
[syn: line up, get hold, come up, find]

8. make a discovery, make a new finding;
- Example: "Roentgen discovered X-rays"
- Example: "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
[syn: discover, find]

9. make a discovery;
- Example: "She found that he had lied to her"
- Example: "The story is false, so far as I can discover"
[syn: discover, find]

10. obtain through effort or management;
- Example: "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"
- Example: "We found the money to send our sons to college"

11. decide on and make a declaration about;
- Example: "find someone guilty"
[syn: rule, find]

12. receive a specified treatment (abstract);
- Example: "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"
- Example: "His movie received a good review"
- Example: "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
[syn: receive, get, find, obtain, incur]

13. perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place;
- Example: "I found myself in a difficult situation"
- Example: "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room"

14. get or find back; recover the use of;
- Example: "She regained control of herself"
- Example: "She found her voice and replied quickly"
[syn: recover, retrieve, find, regain]

15. succeed in reaching; arrive at;
- Example: "The arrow found its mark"

16. accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation;
- Example: "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
[syn: find oneself, find]