Usually means: Locate or discover something sought.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. find: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. find, find: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. find: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. find: Collins English Dictionary
  5. find: Vocabulary.com
  6. FInd, Find, find, find, find: Wordnik
  7. find: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. find: Wiktionary
  9. find: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. find: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. find: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. find: Dictionary.com
  13. find: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. find: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Find (Hidden in Plain View EP), Find (Unix), Find (Windows), Find (meteorite), Find, The Find: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Find: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. find: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. find: Rhymezone
  19. find: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. find: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Find: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. find: Free Dictionary
  23. find: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. find: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. find: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Find (Unix): Legal dictionary
  3. find: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Find: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. Find (Unix), find: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. find: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FIND: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. find: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. find: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Find: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To locate
verb:  (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
verb:  (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
verb:  (ditransitive) Locate on behalf of another
verb:  (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
verb:  (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
verb:  (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
verb:  (transitive) To meet with; to receive.
verb:  (transitive) To point out.
verb:  (ditransitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
verb:  (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To provide for
verb:  (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
verb:  (transitive, ball games) To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
verb:  (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
noun:  Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
noun:  The act of finding.

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