英和和英

発音

• enPR: fīnd, IPA: /faɪnd/
• (英国発音) IPA: /faɪnd/
  • (MLE) IPA: /fæn(d)/
  • (Northumbria) IPA: /fɪnd/
• (Local Dublin) IPA: /fəɪn/
• (Canada) IPA: /faɪnd/
  • (Dialectal) IPA: /fʌɪnd/, [fəi̯nd]
• 韻: -aɪnd
• Homophone: fined

動詞

find (third-person singular simple present finds, present participle finding, simple past found or (dialectal) fand, past participle found or (dialectal) fand or (archaic) founden)

1. To locate
   1. (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.

      Synonyms: come upon, encounter, happen across, run across; see also Thesaurus:discover

      I found this shell on the beach.

      She arrived home to find that the house had gone up in flames.

      • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

        Searching the window for a flint, I found/This paper, thus sealed up.

      • a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, The Request:

        Among the Woods and Forests thou art found.

      • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

        I had occasion to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return, much to my surprise, I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station.

   2. (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.

      Synonyms: localize, pinpoint

      Antonyms: lose, miss

      I found my car keys. They were under the couch.

      I went looking for you in the bed we share, but tonight I found you not there.

      • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

        It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant.

      • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

        Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field. Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler found evidence of them on their marine plastic, too.

   3. (ditransitive) To locate on behalf of another.

      I found you a new place to live

2. (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment directed to an object or end.

   Water is found to be a compound substance.

   The researchers found the two variables to be strongly correlated.

3. (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.

   to find leisure; to find means

   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Revelacion off Sanct Jhon the Devine ix:[6], folio cccxxix, verso:

     And in thoſe dayes ſhall men ſeke deeth / and ſhall nott fynde hyt / ſhall deſyre to deye / and deeth ſhall flye frõ them.

4. (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.

   Synonyms: gain, get, obtain; see also Thesaurus:acquire

   Antonyms: lose; see also Thesaurus:lose

   Looks like he found a new vehicle for himself!

5. (transitive) To meet with; to receive.

   The proposal found little support within the government.

   • 1951 March, J. H. Lehmann, A. D. Johnson, W. C. Bridges, J. Michel, D. M. Green, “Cardiac Catheterization—A Diagnostic Aid in Congenital Heart Disease”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 170:

     Among newer procedures, the Robb and Steinberg contrast visualization of cardiac chambers and venous catheterization of the right heart have found the broadest study and application.

6. (transitive) To point out.

   He kept finding faults with my work.

7. (ditransitive) To decide that, to conclude that, to form the opinion that, to consider.

   Synonyms: consider, hold, look upon; see also Thesaurus:deem

   I find your argument unsatisfactory.

   I found it strange {sleeping - to sleep} in your house last night.

   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     I find you passing gentle.

   • 1647, Abraham Cowley, The Request:

     The torrid zone is now found habitable.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     “ the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases.

8. (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.

   to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person

   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     to find his title with some shows of truth

9. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.

   to find food for workmen

10. (transitive, archaic) To provide for

    He finds his nephew in money.

    • 1871, Charles Kingsley, “Port of Spain”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 135:

      They stand idle in the market-place, not because they have not been hired, but because they do not want to be hired; being able to live like the Lazzaroni of Naples, on "Midshipman's half-pay—nothing a day, and find yourself."

    • 1892, W. E. Swanton, Notes on New Zealand:

      the pay is good, the musterer receiving ten shillings a day, and all found, all the time he is engaged on the "run," even should he be compelled to remain idle on account of rain or mist.

11. (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.

    Synonyms: decide, make a decision; see also Thesaurus:decide

    The jury finds for the defendant.

12. (transitive, ball games) To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.

    Peters finds Jinkins, who is running down the left wing.

    • 2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1)”, in BBC:

      Van Persie scored a hat-trick against Wigan on Saturday and should have found the net again after Bendtner found him at the far post but the Dutchman's header rebounded to safety off the crossbar.

13. (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
    • 1945, Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, Penguin, published 2010, page 57:

      They found at once, and there was a short sharp run, during which Linda and Tony, both in a somewhat showing-off mood, rode side by side over the stone walls.

Conjugation

派生語

See also finding and found

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: feni, findi (obsolete)
  • Aukan: fénde, féni
  • Saramaccan: féndi, féni
  • → Caribbean Javanese: féni
• → Welsh: ffeindio

名詞

find (plural finds)

1. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
   • 2001, Chün-fang Yü, “Feminine Forms of Kuan-yin in Late Imperial China”, in Kuan-yin: The Chinese Transformation of Avalokiteśvara‎, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 409:

     One of the most exciting finds made by Chinese archaeologists within the last twenty years are the sites located in Inner Mongolia and Liaoning Province, particularly the Neolithic Hung-shan culture (c. 3500-2500 B.C.E.).

   • 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Alarei:

     Shepard: How did you get these things to your father?
     Tali: Sometimes I left packages at secure drops in civilized areas. Someone on Pilgrimage would see that it was shipped home.
     Tali: For very valuable finds, I'd signal home, and Father would send a small ship.

2. The act of finding.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

同意語

• (anything found): discovery, catch

Further reading

• “find”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “find”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• NFID

発音

• IPA: /find/

動詞

find

1. imperative singular of findan

語源 2

発音

• IPA: /fiːnd/

名詞

fīnd

1. alternative form of fȳnd