finding

[ fahyn-ding ]
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noun
  1. the act of a person or thing that finds; discovery.

  2. Often findings. something that is found or ascertained.

  1. Law. a decision or verdict after judicial inquiry.

  2. findings, tools, materials, etc., used by artisans.

Origin of finding

1
First recorded before 1000; Middle English, Old English; find + -ing1

Other words from finding

  • non·find·ing, noun

Words Nearby finding

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How to use finding in a sentence

  • And having an enormous appetite he was fortunate in being expert at finding angleworms.

    The Tale of Grandfather Mole | Arthur Scott Bailey
  • It was, of course, the suppressed emotional energy finding another outlet.

    The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
  • finding him awake, he sat by his side and, with the earnestness of a nursery-maid, patted him off to slumber.

  • It consists in finding relations between the objects of thought with an immediate awareness of those relations.

    Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
  • De Robeck agrees that we don't know enough yet to warrant us in fault-finding or intervention.

British Dictionary definitions for finding

finding

/ (ˈfaɪndɪŋ) /


noun
  1. a thing that is found or discovered

  2. law the conclusion reached after a judicial inquiry; verdict

  1. (plural) US the tools and equipment of an artisan

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