FIND    找到

OBTAIN something OFTEN:typically something DIFFICULT to OBTAIN by SEEKING for it.
LOCATESPOTPINPOINTUNEARTHOBTAINSEARCH OUTNOSE OUTTRACK DOWNROOT OUTCOME ACROSS/UPONRUN ACROSS/INTOCHANCE ONLIGHT ONHAPPEN ONSTUMBLE ONENCOUNTERINFORMAL BUMP INTOLITERARY ESPY
Modern Chinese Criteria
找到 is the current modern word for finding something. 找著 MORE SYNONYMS! rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • DISCOVER　FIND as the FIRST HUMAN to FIND. (anc: 16/0, child: 0)
Antonym
  • LOSEto BEGIN to LACK something, NOT VOLUNTARILY.
Hypernym
  • OBTAIN　BEGIN to HAVE. (anc: 14/0, child: 5)
  • BEGIN　ENDURINGLY STOP NOT to ACT OR to BE RESEMBLING:as in the PAST. (anc: 13/0, child: 4)
  • STOP　ACT so as NOT to CONTINUE NOW:present ACTION. (anc: 12/0, child: 10)
  • De differentiis ( DIFFERENTIAE I) p. 241

    INVENIRE, REPERIRE

    312. C. Fronto: Invenimus nostra, reperimus aliena.

    Ibid. In Editione Grialii, a num. 312, gradus fit ad n. 314. Propterea, ex n. 12, duos feci, ut numeri suo ordine procederent. [AREV.]

    ]

    312. Inter Invenire et reperire. Invenimus inquisita, reperimus ultro occurrentia.

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    invenire refers quite generally to any act of finding what one has sought.

    reperire refers to the finding of something that has been concealed from one before, after the expenditure of considerable energy.

    deprehendere refers to the finding of something that has deliberately concealed itself.

  • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 2.350:238

    DECOUVIR.TROUVER

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.236

    • Words (3 items)

    得  dé MC: tok OC: tɯɯɡ 12 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Result: 求/SEEK The current general word for trying to find or get something is qiú 求.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNfindCH
    • vtt(oN1.)+prep+N2find the contextually determinate N1 in N2DS
    取  qǔ MC: tshjuX OC: skhoʔ 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNfind, get hold ofCH
    求  qiú MC: gjuw OC: ɡu 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNresultative: seek out, findCH
    • vtoSto find out SLZ