different between find vs believe

English

Etymology

From Middle English finden, from Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþan? (compare West Frisian fine, Low German finden, Dutch vinden, German finden, Danish finde, Norwegian Bokmål finne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish finna), a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path bridge”), *póntoh?s (compare English path, Old Irish étain (“I find”), áitt (“place”), Latin p?ns (“bridge”), Ancient Greek ?????? (póntos, “sea”), Old Armenian ???? (hun, “ford”), Avestan ????????????????????? (pa?t??), Sanskrit ?? (pathá, “path”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?nd, IPA^(key): /fa?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd
• Homophone: fined

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
   • a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, The Request

     Among the Woods and Forests thou art found.

2. (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
3. (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.

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

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

6. (transitive) To point out.

7. (ditransitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
   • 1647, Abraham Cowley, The Request

     The torrid zone is now found habitable.
8. (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
9. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.

10. (transitive, archaic) To provide for
    • 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: a Christmas in the West Indies

      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.

12. (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
    • 1945, Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, Penguin 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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deem

Antonyms

• lose

Derived terms

• befind
• findable
• finder
• hard-to-find
• viewfinder
• unfindable

Related terms

See also finding and found

Translations

Noun

find (plural finds)

1. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
2. The act of finding.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (anything found): discovery, catch

Translations

Further reading

• find in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• find in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• NFID

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fend/, [fen?]
• Rhymes: -end

Verb

find

1. imperative of finde

Middle English

Noun

find (plural findes)

1. Alternative form of feend

English

Alternative forms

• beleeve (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English beleven, bileven, from Old English bel?efan (“to believe”), a later variant to Proto-Germanic *galaubijan? (“to have faith, believe”). Cognate with Scots beleve (“to believe”). Compare Old English ?el?efan (“to be dear to; believe, trust”), Old English ?el?afa (“belief, faith, confidence, trust”), Old English l?of ("dear, valued, beloved, pleasant, agreeable"; > English lief). Related also to North Frisian leauwjen (“to believe”), West Frisian leauwe (“to believe”), Dutch geloven (“to believe”), German glauben (“to believe”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????????? (galaubjan, “to hold dear, valuable, or satisfactory, approve of, believe”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??li?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??liv/, /bi-/, /b?-/
• Rhymes: -i?v
• Hyphenation: be?lieve

Verb

believe (third-person singular simple present believes, present participle believing, simple past and past participle believed)

1. (transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)
2. (transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.

3. (intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
4. (transitive) To opine, think, reckon

   Do you think this is good?

   Hmm, I believe it's okay.

Antonyms

• disbelieve

Usage notes

• The transitive verb believe and the phrasal verb believe in are similar but can have very different implications.
  • To “believe” someone or something means to accept specific pieces of information as truth: believe the news, believe the lead witness. To “believe a complete stranger” means to accept a stranger's story with little evidence.
  • To “believe in” someone or something means to hold confidence and trust in that person or concept: believe in liberty, believe in God. To “believe in one's fellow man” means to place trust and confidence in mankind.
• Meanings sometimes overlap. To believe in a religious text would also require affirming the truth of at least the major tenets. To believe a religious text might likewise imply placing one's confidence and trust in it, in addition to accepting its statements as facts.
• This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs

Derived terms

Related terms

• belief
• disbelief

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

believe

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of believen

Anagrams

• beviele