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May 26, 2012
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Synonyms for found

Noun

1. found, wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary
usage: food and lodging provided in addition to money; "they worked for $30 and found"

Verb

1. establish, set up, found, launch, open, open up
usage: set up or found; "She set up a literacy program"
2. establish, found, plant, constitute, institute, initiate, pioneer
usage: set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department"
3. establish, base, ground, found
usage: use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation"

Verb

1. establish, set up, found, launch, open, open up
usage: 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"
2. establish, found, plant, constitute, institute, initiate, pioneer
usage: 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"
3. establish, base, ground, found
usage: come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!"
4. find, happen, chance, bump, encounter
usage: 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"
5. detect, observe, find, discover, notice, sight
usage: 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"
6. find, regain, get, acquire
usage: perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "I want to see results"; "The 1960 saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"
7. determine, find, find out, ascertain
usage: 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"
8. find, feel, reason, reason out, conclude
usage: make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
9. witness, find, see, experience, undergo, see, go through
usage: make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"
10. line up, get hold, come up, find, get, acquire
usage: 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"
11. discover, find, gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
usage: decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty"
12. discover, find, learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see, find out
usage: 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"
13. find, get, acquire
usage: 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"
14. rule, find, pronounce, label, judge
usage: get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
15. receive, get, find, obtain, incur, change
usage: succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrrow found its mark"
16. find, perceive, comprehend
usage: accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"

Adjective

1. found (vs. lost), recovered(predicate), saved
usage: come upon unexpectedly or after searching; "found art"; "the lost-and-found department"
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