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Results for: "find"

Translating from English to Portuguese Portugal

Translations:

find — encounter, locate, discover
→ achar
→ encontrar
find — anything found
→ achado m
→ descobrimento m

More translations:

find
→ encontrar
find
→ descobrir
find
→ achar
find
→ achado

English definitions WordNet

NOUN 2

  1. a productive insight

    Synonymsdiscoverybreakthrough

  2. the act of discovering something

    Synonymsdiscoveryuncovering

VERB 16

  1. 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”
    Synonymshappenchancebumpencounter

  2. discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of

    • “She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water”
    • “We found traces of lead in the paint”
    Synonymsdetectobservediscovernotice

  3. come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost

    • “Did you find your glasses?”
    • “I cannot find my gloves!”
    Synonymsregain
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  1. 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”
    Synonymsdeterminefind outascertain

  2. 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”
    Synonymsfeel

  3. 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”
    Synonymswitnesssee

  4. 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”
    Synonymsline upget holdcome up

  5. make a discovery, make a new finding

    • “Roentgen discovered X-rays”
    • “Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle”
    Synonymsdiscover

  6. make a discovery

    • “She found that he had lied to her”
    • “The story is false, so far as I can discover”
    Synonymsdiscover

  7. obtain through effort or management

    • “She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents”
    • “We found the money to send our sons to college”

  8. decide on and make a declaration about

    • “find someone guilty”
    Synonymsrule

  9. receive a specified treatment (abstract)

    • “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”
    Synonymsreceivegetobtainincur

  10. perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place

    • “I found myself in a difficult situation”
    • “When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room”

  11. get or find back; recover the use of

    • “She regained control of herself”
    • “She found her voice and replied quickly”
    Synonymsrecoverretrieveregain

  12. succeed in reaching; arrive at

    • “The arrow found its mark”

  13. accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

    • “My son went to Berkeley to find himself”
    Synonymsfind oneself