Definitions of find:

• noun:   the act of discovering something
• noun:   a productive insight
• verb:   perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
• verb:   obtain through effort or management
• verb:   come upon, as if by accident; meet with

  Example: "We find this idea in Plato"

• verb:   come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost

  Example: "Did you find your glasses?"

• verb:   come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds

  Example: "I find him to be obnoxious"

• verb:   succeed in reaching; arrive at
• verb:   perceive or be contemporaneous with
• verb:   accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

  Example: "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"

• verb:   make a discovery
• verb:   after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

  Example: "Find the product of two numbers"

• verb:   decide on and make a declaration about

  Example: "Find someone guilty"

• verb:   make a discovery, make a new finding
• verb:   discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
• verb:   get or find back; recover the use of
• verb:   receive a specified treatment (abstract)

  Example: "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"

• verb:   get something or somebody for a specific purpose